Inferring Private Personal Attributes of Virtual Reality Users from Ecologically Valid Head and Hand Motion Data

V Nair, C Rack, W Guo, R Wang, S Li… - … IEEE Conference on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Motion tracking “telemetry” data lies at the core of nearly all modern virtual reality (VR) and
metaverse experiences. While generally presumed innocuous, recent studies have …

Inferring private personal attributes of virtual reality users from head and hand motion data

V Nair, C Rack, W Guo, R Wang, S Li, B Huang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Motion tracking" telemetry" data lies at the core of nearly all modern virtual reality (VR) and
metaverse experiences. While generally presumed innocuous, recent studies have …

Unique identification of 50,000+ virtual reality users from head & hand motion data

V Nair, W Guo, J Mattern, R Wang, JF O'Brien… - 32nd USENIX Security …, 2023 - usenix.org
With the recent explosive growth of interest and investment in virtual reality (VR) and the so-
called" metaverse," public attention has rightly shifted toward the unique security and privacy …

Exploiting the Uncoordinated Privacy Protections of Eye Tracking and VR Motion Data for Unauthorized User Identification

S Aziz, O Komogortsev - arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.12766, 2024 - arxiv.org
Virtual reality (VR) devices use a variety of sensors to capture a rich body of user-generated
data, which can be misused by malicious parties to covertly infer information about the user …

PPVR: A Privacy-Preserving Approach for User Behaviors in VR

R Sun, H Wang, M Xue, HT Chen - 2024 IEEE Conference on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The increasing popularity of immersive environments creates a pressing challenge of
reconciling service providers' desire to collect user behavior data with users' privacy …

CLOVR: Collecting and Logging OpenVR Data from SteamVR Applications

ES Martinez, AA Malik… - 2024 IEEE Conference on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to the growing popularity of consumer virtual reality (VR) systems and applications,
researchers have been investigating how tracking and interaction data from VR applications …

Privacy threats of behaviour identity detection in vr

D Kumarapeli, S Jung, RW Lindeman - Frontiers in Virtual Reality, 2024 - frontiersin.org
This study explores the potential privacy risks associated with the use of behavioural data as
an identification mechanism in immersive VR applications. With the advent of modern VR …

Are You Anonymous? Inferring Personal Information from Nonverbal Behavior Data Tracked in Immersive Virtual Reality

Y Jang, JA Guridi, D Molitor, R Kwon… - … Publication of the 2023 …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The growing adoption of virtual reality (VR) technology has raised concerns regarding
individuals' privacy. We explored people's ability to infer personal information about others …

Behaviour Privacy: Non-verbal Threats in Avatar-based VR Systems

D Kumarapeli, S Jung… - 2022 IEEE Conference on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The current move towards highly-expressive, user-controlled avatars in VR creates
unprecedented possibilities for realistic collaboration, approaching face-to-face …

Towards an effective means of collecting validated behavioural data in VR

D Kumarapeli, S Jung… - 2024 IEEE Conference on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper introduces a novel methodology for collecting and validating non-verbal
behavioural data in virtual reality (VR) environments. Focused on addressing the …