Research & Publications

PrivacyMotiv: Vulnerability-Centered Persona Journeys for Empathic Privacy Reviews in UX Design

Proceedings of the 2026 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS 2026) https://doi.org/10.1145/3800645.3813014 https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03559 Abstract UX professionals routinely conduct design reviews, yet privacy concerns are often overlooked, not only due to limited tools, but more fundamentally from low intrinsic motivation, driven by limited privacy knowledge, weak empathy for unexpectedly affected users, and low autonomy in identifying harms. We present Privac

May 27

Framing Data Choices: How Pre-Donation Exploration Designs Influence Data Donation Behavior and Decision-Making

This work has been accepted for inclusion in DRS Biennial Conference Series, DRS2026: Edinburgh, 8-12 June, Edinburgh, UK. https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2026.2558 https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.24995 Abstract Data donation, an emerging user-centric data collection method for public sector research, faces a gap between participant willingness and actual donation. This suggests a design absence in practice: while promoted as "donor-centered" with technical and regulational advances

Behavior

May 27

The Engagement-Prolonging Designs Teens Encounter on Very Large Online Platforms

CHI '26: Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Article No.: 1128, Pages 1 - 22 https://doi.org/10.1145/3772318.3790393 Yixin Chen, Yue Fu, Zeya Chen, Jenny Radesky, Alexis Hiniker Abstract In the attention economy, online platforms are incentivized to design products that maximize user engagement, even when such practices conflict with users’ best interests. We conducted a structured content analysis of all Very Large Online Platforms (V

Behavior

Apr 7

Positive Friction

Exploring a Behavioral Model of "Positive Friction" in Human-AI Interaction Full paper available here: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-61353-1_1 (This preprint has not undergone peer review or any post-submission corrections. The Version of Record of this contribution will be published in Springer Nature Computer Science book series in Volume HCI International 2024) Figure 1. Mapping the relationship of positive friction and user behaviors in inhibition vs stimulation again

Behavior

Nov 19, 2023