Gen Z Perceptions on Deepfakes as an Everyday Technology: Opportunities or Constraints

Chei Sian Lee; Li En Tan; Dion Hoe Lian Goh

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-94153-5_23

Gen Z Perceptions on Deepfakes as an Everyday Technology: Opportunities or Constraints

Chei Sian Lee^*, Li En Tan, Dion Hoe Lian Goh

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

As deepfake technology becomes increasingly accessible for positive and negative uses, its integration into everyday digital interactions raises critical questions about how different generational groups perceive and engage with it. While earlier generations adapted to digital advancements, Generation Z (GenZs), the first generation of digital natives, have grown up immersed in technology, shaping their perspectives and interactions with emerging tools like artificial intelligence and deepfakes in ways fundamentally different from their predecessors. Understanding how deepfakes become a feature of GenZ’s daily informational activities such as information seeking and learning, will be critical. Drawing on interviews with 34 GenZ participants, this study investigated how GenZs navigate the opportunities and constraints of deepfakes from the lens of affordances. In terms of opportunity, the findings indicate that perceived engagement was found to be associated with deepfake, and perceived deception was the main constraint.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	HCI International 2025 Posters - 27th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2025, Proceedings
Editors	Constantine Stephanidis, Margherita Antona, Stavroula Ntoa, Gavriel Salvendy
Publisher	Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages	240-246
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Print)	9783031941528
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-94153-5_23
Publication status	Published - 2025
Externally published	Yes
Event	27th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2025 - Gothenburg, Sweden Duration: Jun 22 2025 → Jun 27 2025

Publication series

Name	Communications in Computer and Information Science
Volume	2523 CCIS
ISSN (Print)	1865-0929
ISSN (Electronic)	1865-0937

Conference

Conference	27th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2025
Country/Territory	Sweden
City	Gothenburg
Period	6/22/25 → 6/27/25

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Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2025.

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

General Computer Science
General Mathematics

Keywords

Affordances
Constraints
Deepfakes
Everyday Technology
Generation Z

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Lee, C. S., Tan, L. E., & Goh, D. H. L. (2025). Gen Z Perceptions on Deepfakes as an Everyday Technology: Opportunities or Constraints. In C. Stephanidis, M. Antona, S. Ntoa, & G. Salvendy (Eds.), HCI International 2025 Posters - 27th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2025, Proceedings (pp. 240-246). (Communications in Computer and Information Science; Vol. 2523 CCIS). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-94153-5_23

Lee, Chei Sian ; Tan, Li En ; Goh, Dion Hoe Lian. / Gen Z Perceptions on Deepfakes as an Everyday Technology : Opportunities or Constraints. HCI International 2025 Posters - 27th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2025, Proceedings. editor / Constantine Stephanidis ; Margherita Antona ; Stavroula Ntoa ; Gavriel Salvendy. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2025. pp. 240-246 (Communications in Computer and Information Science).

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Lee, CS, Tan, LE & Goh, DHL 2025, Gen Z Perceptions on Deepfakes as an Everyday Technology: Opportunities or Constraints. in C Stephanidis, M Antona, S Ntoa & G Salvendy (eds), HCI International 2025 Posters - 27th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2025, Proceedings. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 2523 CCIS, Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, pp. 240-246, 27th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2025, Gothenburg, Sweden, 6/22/25. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-94153-5_23

Gen Z Perceptions on Deepfakes as an Everyday Technology: Opportunities or Constraints. / Lee, Chei Sian; Tan, Li En; Goh, Dion Hoe Lian.
HCI International 2025 Posters - 27th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2025, Proceedings. ed. / Constantine Stephanidis; Margherita Antona; Stavroula Ntoa; Gavriel Salvendy. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2025. p. 240-246 (Communications in Computer and Information Science; Vol. 2523 CCIS).

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Lee CS, Tan LE, Goh DHL. Gen Z Perceptions on Deepfakes as an Everyday Technology: Opportunities or Constraints. In Stephanidis C, Antona M, Ntoa S, Salvendy G, editors, HCI International 2025 Posters - 27th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2025, Proceedings. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. 2025. p. 240-246. (Communications in Computer and Information Science). doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-94153-5_23

Gen Z Perceptions on Deepfakes as an Everyday Technology: Opportunities or Constraints

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