The privacy protection effectiveness of the video conference platforms' virtual background and the privacy concerns from the end-users
This addresses privacy concerns for end-users of video conferencing platforms, but it is incremental as it builds on existing security features.
The study investigates how the instability of virtual backgrounds in video conferencing platforms can leak user privacy and affect mental states, planning to conduct surveys and interviews to understand user privacy awareness and provide design suggestions.
Due to the abrupt arise of pandemic worldwide, the video conferencing platforms are becoming ubiquitously available and being embedded into either various digital devices or the collaborative daily work. Even though the service provider has designed many security functions to protect individual's privacy, such as virtual background (VB), it still remains to be explored that how the instability of VB leaks users' privacy or impacts their mentality and behaviours. In order to understand and locate implications for the contextual of the end-users' privacy awareness and its mental model, we will conduct survey and interviews for users as the first stage research. We will raise conceptual challenges in terms of the designing safety and stable VB, as well as provide design suggestions.