Unveiling the tricks: Automated detection of dark patterns in mobile applications

J Chen, J Sun, S Feng, Z Xing, Q Lu, X Xu… - Proceedings of the 36th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Mobile apps bring us many conveniences, such as online shopping and communication, but
some use malicious designs called dark patterns to trick users into doing things that are not …

Conceptualizing Algorithmic Stigmatization

N Andalibi, C Pyle, K Barta, L Xian, AZ Jacobs… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Algorithmic systems have infiltrated many aspects of our society, mundane to high-stakes,
and can lead to algorithmic harms known as representational and allocative. In this paper …

Problematic advertising and its disparate exposure on facebook

M Ali, A Goetzen, A Mislove, EM Redmiles… - 32nd USENIX Security …, 2023 - usenix.org
Targeted advertising remains an important part of the free web browsing experience, where
advertisers' targeting and personalization algorithms together find the most relevant …

How to Ethically Engage Fat People in HCI Research

BH Payne, J Taylor, K Spiel, C Fiesler - Companion Publication of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
How we research and represent people and communities that may be marginalized or
vulnerable is a highly relevant question for our research practices. One particular group that …

[PDF][PDF] Leveraging rights of data subjects for social media analysis: Studying TikTok via data donations

S Zannettou, ON Nemeth, O Ayalon… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - pure.mpg.de
TikTok is a relatively novel and widely popular media platform. In response to its expanding
user base and cultural impact, researchers are turning to study the platform; however …

Shadows in the interface: a comprehensive study on dark patterns

L Nie, Y Zhao, C Li, X Luo, Y Liu - Proceedings of the ACM on Software …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
As digital interfaces become increasingly prevalent, a series of ethical issues have surfaced,
with dark patterns emerging as a key research focus. These manipulative design strategies …

The Slow Violence of Surveillance Capitalism: How Online Behavioral Advertising Harms People

Y Wu, S Bice, WK Edwards, S Das - … of the 2023 ACM Conference on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
People's negative reactions to online behavioral advertising (OBA) are well-documented.
However, past work has primarily focused on cataloguing these reactions and exploring how …

On the Use of Proxies in Political Ad Targeting

P Sapiezynski, L Kaplan, A Mislove… - Proceedings of the ACM …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Detailed targeting of advertisements has long been one of the core offerings of online
platforms. Unfortunately, malicious advertisers have frequently abused such targeting …

Targeted and troublesome: Tracking and advertising on children's websites

Z Moti, A Senol, H Bostani, FZ Borgesius… - … IEEE Symposium on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
On the modern web, trackers and advertisers frequently construct and monetize users'
detailed behavioral profiles without consent. Despite various studies on web tracking …

Representation, Self-Determination, and Refusal: Queer People's Experiences with Targeted Advertising

P Sampson, R Encarnacion, D Metaxa - … of the 2023 ACM Conference on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Targeted online advertising systems increasingly draw scrutiny for the surveillance
underpinning their collection of people's private data, and subsequent automated …