Publications

* indicates students who are PASTA lab members or alumni

  • *Liu, L., Gao, L., Soni., N., Yao, Y. Exploring Design Opportunities for Family-Based Privacy Education in Informal Learning Spaces. To appear at PoPETS 2024.
  • Chen, C., Li., W., Song, W., Ye, Y., Yao, Y., Li, T. An Empathy-Based Sandbox Approach to Bridge the Privacy Gap among Attitudes, Goals, Knowledge, and Behaviors. To appear at CHI 2024.
  • Alghythee, K., Hrncic, A., Singh, K., Kunisetty, S., Yao, Y., Soni, N. Towards Understanding Family Privacy and Security Literacy Conversations at Home: Design Implications for Privacy Literacy Interfaces. To appear at CHI 2024.
  • Feng, Y., Ravichander, A., Yao, Y., Zhang, S., Chen, R., Wilson, S., Sadeh, N. Understanding How to Inform Blind and Low-Vision Users about Data Privacy through Privacy Question Answering Assistants. To appear at USENIX Security 2024.
  • *Deldari, E., *Thakkar, P., Yao, Y. Users’ Perceptions of Online Child Abuse Detection Mechanisms. To appear at CSCW 2024.
  • *Zhou, M., Qu, Z., Wan, J., Wen, B., Yao, Y., Lu, Z. Understanding Chinese Internet Users’ Perceptions of, and Online Platforms’ Compliance with, the Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL). To appear at CSCW 2024.
  • *Lu, Y., Zhang, C., Yang, Y., Yao, Y., Li, T. From Awareness to Action: Exploring End-User Empowerment Interventions for Dark Patterns in UX. To appear at CSCW 2024.
  • *Zhang, K., *Deldari, E.,Yao, Y., Zhao, Y. (2023). A Diary Study in Social Virtual Reality: Impact of Avatars with Disability Signifiers on the Social Experiences of People with Disabilities. In Proceedings of the 25th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS’23).
  • *Wang, Z., Huang, D.,Yao, Y. (2023). Exploring Tenants’ Preferences of Privacy Negotiation in Airbnb. In Proceedings of 32nd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security’23).
  • *Deldari, E., Freed, D., Poveda, J., Yao, Y. (2023). An Investigation of Teenager Experiences in Social Virtual Reality from Teenagers’, Parents’, and Bystanders’ Perspectives. In Proceedings of 19th Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS’23).
  • *Wen, Z., *Jia, J., Yan, H., Yao, Y., Liu, Z., & Dong, C. (2023). The Influence of Explanation Designs on User Understanding Differential Privacy and Making Data-sharing Decision. Information Sciences.
  • *Le, T., *Wang, A., Yao, Y., Feng, Y., Heydarian, A., Sadeh, N., & Tian, Y. (2023). Exploring Smart Commercial Building Occupants’ Perceptions and Notification Preferences of Internet of Things Data Collection in the United States. In Proceedings at the 8th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (Euro S\&P 2023).
  • Cruz, S., Danek, L., Liu, S., Kraemer, C., Wang, Z., Feamster, N., Huang, D., Yao, Y, Heste, J. Toward Identifying Home Privacy Leaks Using Augmented Reality. In Proceedings of the Usable Security and Privacy (USEC) Symposium 2023.
  • Zhao, Y., Yao, Y., *Fu, J., *Zhou, N. “If sighted people know, I should be able to know:” Privacy Perceptions of Bystanders with Visual Impairments around Camera-based Technology. In Proceedings of 32nd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security’23).
  • *Zhang, K., *Deldari, E., Lu, Z., Yao, Y., Zhao, Y. “It’s Just Part of Me:” Understanding Avatar Diversity and the Self-presentation of People with Disabilities in Social Virtual Reality. In Proceedings of the 24th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS’22).
  • *Zhang, A., Feng, Y., Yao, Y., Cranor, L.F., Sadeh, N. How Usable Are iOS App Privacy Labels? In Proceedings of Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETS’22).
  • *Thakkar, P., *He, S., *Xu, S., Huang, D.Y., Yao, Y. “It would probably turn into a social faux-pas”: Users’ and Bystanders’ Preferences of Privacy Awareness Mechanisms in Smart Homes. In Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’22).
  • *Jin, H., Guo, B., Roychoudhury, R., Yao, Y., Kumar, S., Agarwal, Y., Hong, J.I. Exploring the Needs of Users for Supporting Privacy-Protective Behaviors in Smart Homes. In Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’22).
  • *Wang, Y., Zuest, P., Yao, Y., Lu, Z., Wattenhofer, R. Impact and User Perception of Sandwich Attacks in the DeFi Ecosystem. In Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’22).
  • *Story, P., *Smullen, D., Chen, R., Yao, Y., Acquisti, A., Cranor, L.F., Sadeh, N. and Schaub, F., 2022. Increasing Adoption of Tor Browser Using Informational and Planning Nudges. In Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETS’22).
  • *Smullen, D., Yao, Y., Feng, Y., Sadeh, N., Edelstein, A., and Weiss, R. Managing Potentially Intrusive Practices In The Browser: A User-Centered Perspective. In Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETS’21).
  • *Story, P., *Smullen, D., Yao, Y., Acquisti, A., Cranor, L. F., Sadeh, N., and Schaub, F. Awareness, Adoption, and Misconceptions of Web Privacy Tools. In Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETS’21).
  • *Kaushik, S., Yao, Y., Dewitte, P., Wang, Y. “How I Know For Sure”: People’s Perspectives on Solely Automated Decision-Making (SADM). In Proceedings at the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS’21). \
  • \textbf{IAPP SOUPS Privacy Award}
  • Feng, Y., Yao, Y., and Sadeh, N. A Design Space for Privacy Choices: Towards Meaningful Privacy Control in the Internet of Things. In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’21). ACM.
  • Habib, H., Zou, Y., Yao, Y., Acquisti, A., Cranor, L. F., Reidenberg, J., Sadeh, N., and Schaub, F. Toggle, Dollar Signs, and Triangles: How to (In)Effectively Convey Privacy Choices with Icons and Link Texts. In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’21). ACM.
  • Yao, Y., Basdeo, J. R., Mcdonough, O. R., Wang, Y. Privacy Perceptions and Designs of Bystanders in Smart Homes. In Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW’19). \
  • \textbf{Best Paper Honorable Mention Award}
  • Huang, Y., Sang, Y., Wu, Q., Yao, Y. Higher Education Check-Ins: Exploring the User Experience of Hybrid Location Sensing. In Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW’19).
  • Barbosa, N. M., Park, J. S., Yao, Y., Wang, Y. “What if?” Predicting Individual Users’ Smart Home Privacy Preferences and Their Changes. In Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETS’19).
  • Yao, Y., Basdeo, J., Kaushik, S., and Wang, Y. Defending My Castle: A Co-Design Study of Privacy Mechanisms for Smart Homes. In Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’19). ACM.
  • Yao, Y., Huang, Y., & Wang, Y. Unpacking People’s Understandings of Bluetooth Beacon Systems-A Location-Based IoT Technology. In Proceedings of the 52nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS’19). (Best Paper Nomination)
  • Yao, Y., Xia, H., Huang, Y. and Wang, Y., 2017, May. Privacy mechanisms for drones: Perceptions of drone controllers and bystanders. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’17).
  • Yao, Y., Xia, H., Huang, Y. and Wang, Y., 2017, May. Free to fly in public spaces: Drone controllers’ privacy perceptions and practices. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’17).
  • Yao, Y., Lo Re, D. and Wang, Y., 2017, February. Folk models of online behavioral advertising. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW’17).
  • Wang, Y., Xia, H., Yao, Y., Huang, Y. Flying Eyes and Hidden Controllers: A Qualitative Study of People’s Privacy Perceptions of Civilian Drones in the US. Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETS’16).
  • Scholl, H. J., Wang, K., Wang, Y., Woods, G., Xu, D., Yao, Y., & Krcmar, H. (2014). Top soccer teams in cyberspace: Online channels for services, communications, research, and sales. Journal of Marketing Analytics, 2(2), 98-119.
  • Huang, Y., Huo, S., Yao, Y., Chao, N., Wang, Y., Grygiel, J. and Sawyer, S., 2016, June. Municipal police departments on Facebook: What are they posting and are people engaging?. In Proceedings of the 17th International digital government research conference on digital government research (DGO’16).
  • Guajardo, V., Yao, Y., Bayo Urban, I. and Gomez, R. (2014). CasaCare.org: A sociotechnical platform for women immigrant workers in the home care industry. 11th Community Informatics Conference CIRN, Prato, Italy, October 2014.
  • Jurisch, M., Krcmar, H., Scholl, H. J., Wang, K., Wang, Y., Woods, G., Xu, D., & Yao, Y. Digital and social media in pro sports: analysis of the 2013 UEFA top four. In Proceedings of the 47th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS’13).