Dark patterns and digital nudging are persuasive techniques that influence customer
decision-making in the digital world. This study analyzed 80 articles published in reputed …

Many tech companies exploit psychological vulnerabilities to design digital interfaces that
maximize the frequency and duration of user visits. Consequently, users often report feeling …

Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices are ubiquitous, but little attention has been paid to how they
may incorporate dark patterns despite consumer protections and privacy concerns arising …

Purpose This research theorizes the condition of human beings reduced to being users (and
only users) in human-computer interaction (HCI), a condition that favors them becoming …

Advertisements have become commonplace on modern websites. While ads are typically
designed for visual consumption, it is unclear how they affect blind users who interact with …

Deceptive, manipulative, and coercive practices are deeply embedded in our digital
experiences, impacting our ability to make informed choices and undermining our agency …

It highlights the importance of human relations mediated by computers, since these relations
are placed before the existence of a democratic state of law. Thus, it points out the …

Purpose E-commerce companies use manipulative user interface (UI) designs known as
dark patterns to influence customer decisions over internet platforms. Although dark patterns …

Dark patterns are deceptive design elements of digital choice architectures that are
implemented to drive users' actions towards decisions that are not necessarily in their best …

Interacting with web-based interfaces is often done with a particular objective in mind.
However, deceptive patterns could interfere with these interactions by taking advantage of …