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Dark patterns and consumer vulnerability [PDF]
Behavioural Public Policy, 2023 Abstract Dark patterns that manipulate consumer behaviour are now a pervasive feature of digital markets. Depending on the choice architecture utilised, they can affect the perception, behaviour and purchasing patterns of online consumers. Using a novel empirical design, we find strong evidence that individuals across all groups are susceptible to ...
Amit Zac +4 more
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Privately Policing Dark Patterns [PDF]
, 2023 Lawmakers around the country are crafting new laws to target “dark patterns”—user interface designs that trick or coerce users into enabling cell phone location tracking, sharing browsing data, initiating automatic billing, or making whatever other choices their designers prefer. Dark patterns pose a serious problem.
Dickinson, Gregory M.
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Dark patterns in proxemic interactions [PDF]
Proceedings of the 2014 conference on Designing interactive systems, 2014 Proxemics theory explains peoples’ use of interpersonal distances to mediate their social interactions with others. Within Ubicomp, proxemic interaction researchers argue that people have a similar social understanding of their spatial relations with nearby digital devices, which can be exploited to better facilitate seamless and natural interactions ...
Saul Greenberg +3 more
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Dark Surfer-A Dark Pattern Analyzer & Classifier [PDF]
ITM Web of ConferencesDark Surfer is a project which is aimed to detect and combat dark patterns on websites using advanced language model [LLM]. The problem with dark patterns lies in their potential to undermine user trust, autonomy, and well-being.
Babu K. Srinivas +3 more
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Dark patterns in the design of games. [PDF]
, 2013 Game designers are typically regarded as advocates for players. However, a game creator’s interests may not align with the players’. We examine some of the ways in which those opposed interests can manifest in a game’s design. In particular, we examine those elements of a game’s design whose purpose can be argued as questionable and perhaps even ...
Zagal, José P +2 more
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Clusters of Dark Patterns Across Popular Websites in New Zealand [PDF]
International Journal of Communication, 2023 “Dark patterns” are interface design techniques that aim to trick or mislead Internet users. Most dark-patterns research has been undertaken in the United States and Europe and by user experience or human computer interaction researchers.
Cherie Lacey +2 more
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Artwork contributed to publication 'Dark Mountain' (issue 21) [PDF]
, 2022 Artwork contributed to publication 'Dark Mountain' (issue 21) "Our twenty-first issue revolves around the theme of confluence. The image of watersmeet, of two streams merging into one, has long had sacred connotations, as shown by the votive ...
Carter, Justin
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Proceedings of the XX Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2021 Defined as ‘tricks used in websites and apps that make you do things that you did not mean to, like buying or signing up for something’, much of the academic scholarship on the regulation of ‘dark patterns’ has focussed on privacy and data protection legislation.
Leiser, M.R., Caruana, M.
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CoRR, 2023 Dark patterns have become increasingly pervasive in online choice architectures, encompassing practices like subscription traps, hiding information about fees, pre-selecting options by default, nagging, and drip pricing. Regulators around the world have started to express concerns that such practices are causing substantial consumer detriment.
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"It depends upon whether it’s true or not" : Entrepreneurs’ Perspective on Dark Design Patterns
, 2021 This paper outlines the perspective of entrepreneurs on dark design patterns and their use. The phenomena of persuasive design and dark design patterns have up to this point primarily focused on categorization efforts, the occurrence of these patterns ...
Harr, Rikard, Nyberg, Annakarin
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