[Air-L] theoretical framings of dark patterns in design

Tue Apr 30 13:38:31 PDT 2019

Colleagues of mine recently published a paper on the use of dark pattern
design in home robots: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8673274

For a broader take on the subject, check out:
https://www.reengineeringhumanity.com/
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On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 7:47 AM Eskens, Sarah <S.J.Eskens at uva.nl> wrote:

> Dear Anna,
>
>
> The Norwegian Consumer Council published a report last year on how tech
> companies use dark patterns to discourage people from exercising their
> rights to privacy:
> https://www.forbrukerradet.no/undersokelse/no-undersokelsekategori/deceived-by-design/
> .<
> https://www.forbrukerradet.no/undersokelse/no-undersokelsekategori/deceived-by-design/
> >
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
>
> Sarah
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> From: Air-L <air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Michael Dieter
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> Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2019 8:28 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Air-L] theoretical framings of dark patterns in design
>
> I wrote a short chapter some time ago on dark patterns in this
> collection using a range of different sources, a sort of evil media
> inspired analysis -
> https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9781137437204_13
> [https://static-content.springer.com/cover/book/978-1-137-43720-4.jpg]<
> https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9781137437204_13>
>
> Dark Patterns: Interface Design, Augmentation and Crisis | SpringerLink<
> https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9781137437204_13>
> link.springer.com
> In early 1951, Douglas Engelbart — a young and idealistic electrical
> engineer working odd jobs for research laboratories in California — was
> suddenly taken by an unexpected series of epiphanies....
>
>
>
>
> I have to admit it was a bit sketchy, my thoughts on it have probably
> changed a bit. I still think the lineage through media theoretical and
> anthropological accounts of trapping is quite interesting though,
> including people like Alfred Gell or Vilém Flusser - see Nick Seaver's
> recent work on algorithms as traps or Benedict Singleton's
> dissertation work on the rise of service design for some uses of these
> frameworks.
>
> There's also the history of design patterns first proposed by
> architect Christopher Alexander, which was then taken up by software
> developers in the 80s and 90s, most famously through object-oriented
> programming, which spread into through other more specific domains
> like interface design or even business thinking. O'Reilly's Web 2.0
> manifesto was subtitled "Design Patterns and Business Models for the
> Next Generation of Software" after all.
>
> Design patterns establish a shared vocabulary, a shared set of
> practices that are easily recognisable and, of course, reiterable.
> Alexander described them in terms of a language - and in his respect,
> they offer an interesting way to establish a context, a collective
> comprehension. The concept also has links to information theory in
> Alexander's early experiments with computational analysis of urban
> space, and habituation in the reiterative practices of programming or
> user interaction more generally (another way to read what Wendy Chun
> calls habitual media imo).
>
> But that said, Harry Brignull's analysis of dark patterns is still the
> best account in my opinion - and I wouldn't describe this as 'a
> journalism', but rather an internal critique within the UX industry to
> identify and share contexts where unethical interface design is
> practiced. And quite a successful intervention at that!
>
> >
> > From: "Love, Patrick S" <lovep at purdue.edu>
> > Date: 30 April 2019 at 15:53:15 CEST
> > To: Daniel Marques <danielmarquescontato at gmail.com>
> > Cc: "air-l at listserv.aoir.org" <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
> > Subject: Re: [Air-L] theoretical framings of dark patterns in design
> >
> > I’ve found this piece particularly instructive:
> >
> >
> https://www.presenttensejournal.org/volume-6/building-dark-patterns-into-platforms-how-gamergate-perturbed-twitters-user-experience/
> > Trice and Potts (2018) Building Dark Patterns into Platforms: How
> GamerGate Perturbed Twitter’s User Experience.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Patrick Love
> >
> > PhD Candidate, Purdue University Rhetoric and Composition
> >
> > Technical Writer, Center for Science of Information, NSF STC
> >
> > Technology Mentor, Purdue ICaP
> >
> >
> > On Apr 30, 2019, at 8:26 AM, Daniel Marques <
> danielmarquescontato at gmail.com<mailto:danielmarquescontato at gmail.com>>
> wrote:
> >
> > I believe this paper is a good starting point:
> >
> > https://doi.org/10.1515/popets-2016-0038
> >
> > Tales from the Dark Side: Privacy Dark Strategies and Privacy Dark
> Patterns
> > Christoph Böschchristoph.boesch at uni-ulm.de1
> > ,
> > Benjamin Erbbenjamin.erb at uni-ulm.de1
> > ,
> > Frank Karglfrank.kargl at uni-ulm.de1
> > ,
> > Henning Kopphenning.kopp at uni-ulm.de1
> > and
> > Stefan Pfattheicherstefan.pfattheicher at uni-ulm.de2
> >
> > Em ter, 30 de abr de 2019 às 09:16, Anna Paukova <anna.paukova at gmail.com
> <mailto:anna.paukova at gmail.com>>
> > escreveu:
> >
> > Dear all,
> >
> > i am searching for any relevant theoretical readings which would help
> > framing the nature of dark patterns (
> > https://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/dark-pattern), how they
> function
> [https://cdn.ttgtmedia.com/ITKE/images/logos/TTlogo-379x201.png]<
> https://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/dark-pattern>
>
> What is dark pattern? - Definition from WhatIs.com<
> https://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/dark-pattern>
> whatis.techtarget.com
> dark pattern: This definition explains what a dark pattern is and how
> interface designers use dark patterns to influence users to take actions
> that they would not take intentionally. See also manipulative design.
>
>
>
> > etc.
> > I was wondering if any scholar work on the subject exists or it is
> rather a
> > 'journalism'.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Anna Paukova
> > UX Researcher
> > Moscow
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