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Individuals are increasingly relying on large language model (LLM)-enabled conversational agents for emotional support. While prior research has examined privacy and security issues in chatbots specifically designed for mental health…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Jabari Kwesi , Jiaxun Cao , Riya Manchanda , Pardis Emami-Naeini

Recent studies have discussed how users are increasingly using conversational AI systems, powered by LLMs, for information seeking, decision support, and even emotional support. However, these macro-level observations offer limited insight…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Sai Keerthana Karnam , Abhisek Dash , Krishna P. Gummadi , Animesh Mukherjee , Ingmar Weber , Savvas Zannettou

Privacy concerns and fears of unauthorized access in smart home devices often stem from misunderstandings about how data is collected, used, and protected. This study explores how AI-powered tools can offer innovative privacy protections…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Wael Albayaydh , Ivan Flechais , Rui Zhao , Jood Albayaydh

AI powered health chatbot applications are increasingly utilized for personalized healthcare services, yet they pose significant challenges related to user data security and privacy. This study evaluates the effectiveness of automated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Muhammad Hassan , Abdullah Ghani , Muhammad Fareed Zaffar , Masooda Bashir

Nowadays, privacy has become a very serious issue with smart and mobile platforms. Users tend to allow intrusive apps access much sensible information without really knowing the potential threats. To solve this issue several solutions (e.g.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Alan Ferrari , Silvia Giordano

In the current technology environment, users are often in a vulnerable position when it comes to protecting their privacy. Previous efforts to promote privacy protection have largely focused on top-down approaches such as regulation and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Varun Shiri , Maggie Xiong , Jin L. C. Guo , Jinghui Cheng

AI companion chatbots are increasingly used for emotional support, with prior work in the domain predominantly documenting their mixed psychosocial impacts, including both increased emotional expression and heightened loneliness. However,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Olivia Yan Huang , Monika Stodolska , Sharifa Sultana

GitHub provides developers with a practical way to distribute source code and collaboratively work on common projects. To enhance account security and privacy, GitHub allows its users to manage access permissions, review audit logs, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Costanza Alfieri , Juri Di Rocco , Paola Inverardi , Phuong T. Nguyen

Since its launch, ChatGPT has achieved remarkable success as a versatile conversational AI platform, drawing millions of users worldwide and garnering widespread recognition across academic, industrial, and general communities. This paper…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Yuyang Deng , Ni Zhao , Xin Huang

AI-mediated communication is increasingly being utilized to help facilitate interactions; however, in privacy sensitive domains, an AI mediator has the additional challenge of considering how to preserve privacy. In these contexts, a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Roshni Kaushik , Maarten Sap , Koichi Onoue

Privacy is important for all individuals in everyday life. With emerging technologies, smartphones with AR, various social networking applications and artificial intelligence driven modes of surveillance, they tend to intrude privacy. This…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-07-26 Priyam Rajkhowa , Pradipta Biswas

Context: Post-release user feedback plays an integral role in improving software quality and informing new features. Given its growing importance, feedback concerning security enhancements is particularly noteworthy. In considering the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Sherlock A. Licorish , Stephen G. MacDonell , Tony Clear

The advent of artificial intelligence-generated content (AIGC) represents a pivotal moment in the evolution of information technology. With AIGC, it can be effortless to generate high-quality data that is challenging for the public to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Tao Wang , Yushu Zhang , Shuren Qi , Ruoyu Zhao , Zhihua Xia , Jian Weng

Stack Overflow and other similar forums are used commonly by developers to seek answers for their software development as well as privacy-related concerns. Recently, ChatGPT has been used as an alternative to generate code or produce…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Zack Delile , Sean Radel , Joe Godinez , Garrett Engstrom , Theo Brucker , Kenzie Young , Sepideh Ghanavati

Undoubtedly, the evolution of Generative AI (GenAI) models has been the highlight of digital transformation in the year 2022. As the different GenAI models like ChatGPT and Google Bard continue to foster their complexity and capability,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Maanak Gupta , CharanKumar Akiri , Kshitiz Aryal , Eli Parker , Lopamudra Praharaj

Recent improvement gains in large language models (LLMs) have lead to everyday usage of AI-based Conversational Agents (CAs). At the same time, LLMs are vulnerable to an array of threats, including jailbreaks and, for example, causing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Kathrin Grosse , Nico Ebert

The fundamental principles, potential applications, and ethical concerns of ChatGPT are analyzed and discussed in this study. Since ChatGPT emerged, it has gained a rapidly growing popularity, with more than 600 million users today. The…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Ioannis D. Apostolopoulos , Mpesi Tzani , Sokratis I. Aznaouridis

Latest developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and big data gave rise to Artificial Intelligent agents like Open AI's ChatGPT, which has recently become the fastest growing application since Facebook and WhatsApp. ChatGPT has…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Forhan Bin Emdad , Benhur Ravuri , Lateef Ayinde , Mohammad Ishtiaque Rahman

Development in digital technologies has continuously reshaped how individuals seek and receive social and emotional support. While online platforms and communities have long served this need, the increased integration of general-purpose…

Background: Patient-facing medical chatbots based on retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) are increasingly promoted to deliver accessible, grounded health information. AI-assisted development lowers the barrier to building them, but they…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Alfredo Madrid-García , Miguel Rujas