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Dark patterns, which are user interface designs in online services, induce users to take unintended actions. Recently, dark patterns have been raised as an issue of privacy and fairness. Thus, a wide range of research on detecting dark…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Yuki Yada , Jiaying Feng , Tsuneo Matsumoto , Nao Fukushima , Fuyuko Kido , Hayato Yamana

Dark patterns are deceptive user interface designs for online services that make users behave in unintended ways. Dark patterns, such as privacy invasion, financial loss, and emotional distress, can harm users. These issues have been the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Yuki Yada , Tsuneo Matsumoto , Fuyuko Kido , Hayato Yamana

Dark patterns are user interface design choices that benefit an online service by coercing, steering, or deceiving users into making unintended and potentially harmful decisions. We present automated techniques that enable experts to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Arunesh Mathur , Gunes Acar , Michael J. Friedman , Elena Lucherini , Jonathan Mayer , Marshini Chetty , Arvind Narayanan

Dark patterns are interface designs that nudge users towards behavior that is against their best interests. Since humans are often not even aware that they are influenced by these malicious patterns, research has to identify ways to protect…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Philip Hausner , Michael Gertz

Dark patterns in user interfaces represent deceptive design practices intended to manipulate users' behavior, often leading to unintended consequences such as coerced purchases, involuntary data disclosures, or user frustration. Detecting…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Aliyu Umar , Maaruf Lawan , Adamu Lawan , Abdullahi Abdulkadir , Mukhtar Dahiru

Dark patterns utilize interface elements to trick users into performing unwanted actions. Online shopping websites often employ these manipulative mechanisms so as to increase their potential customer base, to boost their sales, or to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Christian Voigt , Stephan Schlögl , Aleksander Groth

Dark patterns in online commerce, especially deceptive user interface designs for apps and websites, undermine consumer autonomy and distort online markets. Although sometimes deception is intentional, the complex app development process…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Gregory M. Dickinson

There is a rapidly growing literature on dark patterns, user interface designs -- typically related to shopping or privacy -- that researchers deem problematic. Recent work has been predominantly descriptive, documenting and categorizing…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Arunesh Mathur , Jonathan Mayer , Mihir Kshirsagar

Cookie banners, the pop ups that appear to collect your consent for data collection, are a tempting ground for dark patterns. Dark patterns are design elements that are used to influence the user's choice towards an option that is not in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Than Htut Soe , Cristiana Teixeira Santos , Marija Slavkovik

Online services pervasively employ manipulative designs (i.e., dark patterns) to influence users to purchase goods and subscriptions, spend more time on-site, or mindlessly accept the harvesting of their personal data. To protect users from…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Kerstin Bongard-Blanchy , Arianna Rossi , Salvador Rivas , Sophie Doublet , Vincent Koenig , Gabriele Lenzini

Deceptive patterns in digital interfaces manipulate users into making unintended decisions, exploiting cognitive biases and psychological vulnerabilities. These patterns have become ubiquitous on various digital platforms. While efforts to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Asmit Nayak , Shirley Zhang , Yash Wani , Rishabh Khandelwal , Kassem Fawaz

Deceptive patterns (DPs) are user interface designs deliberately crafted to manipulate users into unintended decisions, often by exploiting cognitive biases for the benefit of companies or services. While numerous studies have explored ways…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Zewei Shi , Ruoxi Sun , Jieshan Chen , Jiamou Sun , Minhui Xue , Yansong Gao , Feng Liu , Xingliang Yuan

Deceptive patterns, dark patterns, and manipulative user interfaces (UI) are a widely used design strategy that manipulates users to act against their own interests in pursuit of shareholder aims. These patterns may particularly affect…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Tobias Pellkvist , Katie Seaborn , Miu Kojima

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…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Gregory M. Dickinson

Deceptive UI designs, widely instantiated across the web and commonly known as dark patterns, manipulate users into performing actions misaligned with their goals. In this paper, we show that dark patterns are highly effective in steering…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Phil Cuvin , Hao Zhu , Diyi Yang

As digital interfaces become increasingly prevalent, certain manipulative design elements have emerged that may harm user interests, raising associated ethical concerns and bringing dark patterns into focus as a significant research topic.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Meng Li , Xiang Wang , Liming Nie , Chenglin Li , Yang Liu , Yangyang Zhao , Lei Xue , Kabir Sulaiman Said

Dark web crawling is a complex process that involves specific methodologies and techniques to navigate the Tor network and extract data from hidden services. This study proposes a general dark web crawler designed to extract pages handling…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Daniel De Pascale , Giuseppe Cascavilla , Damian A. Tamburri , Willem-Jan Van Den Heuvel

Deceptive patterns are design practices embedded in digital platforms to manipulate users, representing a widespread and long-standing issue in the web and mobile software development industry. Legislative actions highlight the urgency of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Zewei Shi , Ruoxi Sun , Jieshan Chen , Jiamou Sun , Minhui Xue

Interest in unethical user interfaces has grown in HCI over recent years, with researchers identifying malicious design strategies referred to as ''dark patterns''. While such strategies have been described in numerous domains, we lack a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Thomas Mildner , Merle Freye , Gian-Luca Savino , Philip R. Doyle , Benjamin R. Cowan , Rainer Malaka

Context: Dark patterns are user interface or other software designs that deceive or manipulate users to do things they would not otherwise do. Even though dark patterns have been under active research for a long time, including particularly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Jukka Ruohonen , Jani Koskinen , Søren Harnow Klausen , Anne Gerdes
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