dark patterns; nudge; deception; privacy; decision-making; data protection; security
Abstract :
[en] Lately, researchers, journalists, and regulators are devoting attention to dark
patterns, defined as "design choices that benefit an online service by coercing,
steering or deceiving users into making decisions that, if fully informed and capable of selecting alternatives, they would not make". Those patterns that have the purpose" or the "substantial effect of obscuring, subverting, or impairing
user autonomy, decision-making, or choice" have also been qualified as dark.
These definitions are dense: they contain concepts like coercion, nudging, and
deception that all alone would deserve an entire work to be discussed.
Disciplines :
Law, criminology & political science: Multidisciplinary, general & others Computer science Social & behavioral sciences, psychology: Multidisciplinary, general & others
Author, co-author :
ROSSI, Arianna ; University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > Computer Science and Communications Research Unit (CSC)
LENZINI, Gabriele ; University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT)
KOENIG, Vincent ; University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Education, Culture, Cognition and Society (ECCS)
BONGARD-BLANCHY, Kerstin ; University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Education, Culture, Cognition and Society (ECCS)
