HCI

Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies

LLM Ads

Brian Tang, Kaiwen Sun, Noah T. Curran, Florian Schaub, Kang G. Shin

Embedding personalized advertisements within chatbot responses. We developed a system that generates targeted ads in LLM chatbot conversations and conducted a user study to assess how ad injection impacts trust and response quality. Users struggle to detect chatbot ads, and undisclosed ads are rated more favorably, raising ethical concerns. Contribution: lead author.

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32nd USENIX Security Symposium (2023)

Eye-Shield

Brian Tang, Kang G. Shin

A novel defense system against shoulder surfing attacks on mobile devices. We designed Eye-Shield, a real-time software that makes on-screen content readable to the user but appear blurry to onlookers. Contribution: lead author.

17th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (2022)

Confidant

Brian Tang, Dakota Sullivan, Bengisu Cagiltay, Varun Chandrasekaran, Kassem Fawaz, Bilge Mutlu

Exploring privacy management in conversational social robots. We developed CONFIDANT, a privacy controller that leverages various NLP models to analyze conversational metadata. Found that robots equipped with privacy controls are perceived as more trustworthy, privacy-aware, and socially aware. Contribution: lead author.

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