More than Meets the Eye: Understanding the Effect of Individual Objects on Perceived Visual Privacy
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| author | Akcay, Mete Harun Rao, Siddharth Prakash Bakas, Alexandros Atli, Buse Gul |
| author_facet | Akcay, Mete Harun Rao, Siddharth Prakash Bakas, Alexandros Atli, Buse Gul |
| contents | User-generated content, such as photos, comprises the majority of online media content and drives engagement due to the human ability to process visual information quickly. Consequently, many online platforms are designed for sharing visual content, with billions of photos posted daily. However, photos often reveal more than they intended through visible and contextual cues, leading to privacy risks. Previous studies typically treat privacy as a property of the entire image, overlooking individual objects that may carry varying privacy risks and influence how users perceive it. We address this gap with a mixed-methods study (n = 92) to understand how users evaluate the privacy of images containing multiple sensitive objects. Our results reveal mental models and nuanced patterns that uncover how granular details, such as photo-capturing context and copresence of other objects, affect privacy perceptions. These novel insights could enable personalized, context-aware privacy protection designs on social media and future technologies. |
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| spellingShingle | More than Meets the Eye: Understanding the Effect of Individual Objects on Perceived Visual Privacy Akcay, Mete Harun Rao, Siddharth Prakash Bakas, Alexandros Atli, Buse Gul Human-Computer Interaction User-generated content, such as photos, comprises the majority of online media content and drives engagement due to the human ability to process visual information quickly. Consequently, many online platforms are designed for sharing visual content, with billions of photos posted daily. However, photos often reveal more than they intended through visible and contextual cues, leading to privacy risks. Previous studies typically treat privacy as a property of the entire image, overlooking individual objects that may carry varying privacy risks and influence how users perceive it. We address this gap with a mixed-methods study (n = 92) to understand how users evaluate the privacy of images containing multiple sensitive objects. Our results reveal mental models and nuanced patterns that uncover how granular details, such as photo-capturing context and copresence of other objects, affect privacy perceptions. These novel insights could enable personalized, context-aware privacy protection designs on social media and future technologies. |
| title | More than Meets the Eye: Understanding the Effect of Individual Objects on Perceived Visual Privacy |
| topic | Human-Computer Interaction |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13051 |