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Yaxing Yao
Researcher at Syracuse University
Publications - 37
Citations - 666
Yaxing Yao is an academic researcher from Syracuse University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Computer science & Information privacy. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 25 publications receiving 284 citations. Previous affiliations of Yaxing Yao include University of Maryland, Baltimore County & Carnegie Mellon University.
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Defending My Castle: A Co-Design Study of Privacy Mechanisms for Smart Homes
TL;DR: This study helps fill the gap in the literature between studying users' privacy concerns and designing privacy tools only by experts by identifying six key design factors: data transparency and control, security, safety, usability and user experience, system intelligence, and system modality.
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Privacy Perceptions and Designs of Bystanders in Smart Homes
TL;DR: This research investigated the privacy perceptions and design ideas ofSmart home bystanders, i.e., people who are not the owners nor the primary users of smart home devices but can potentially be involved in the device usage, such as other family members or guests.
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Flying Eyes and Hidden Controllers: A Qualitative Study of People’s Privacy Perceptions of Civilian Drones in The US
TL;DR: A novel and rich account of people’s privacy perceptions of drones for civilian uses both in general and under specific usage scenarios is provided, highlighting two heightened issues of drones: powerful yet inconspicuous data collection and hidden and inaccessible drone controllers.
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Folk Models of Online Behavioral Advertising
TL;DR: Most of the authors' participants felt that the information being tracked is more important than who the web trackers are, which suggests the potential for an information-based blocking scheme rather than a tracker- based blocking scheme used by most existing ad-blocking tools.
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Privacy Mechanisms for Drones: Perceptions of Drone Controllers and Bystanders
TL;DR: It was found that owner registration and automatic face blurring individually received most support from both controllers and bystanders, and respondents suggested using varied combinations of mechanisms under different drone usage scenarios, highlighting their context-dependent preferences.