Global and Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Dark Patterns and Deceptive Design Practice
ダークパターンとひとをだますデザインに関する国際的かつ学際的な交流
A hybrid Special Interest Group (SIG) at CHI ’25 (Yokohama, Japan)
Aims
Our primary aims for the hybrid CHI ’25 SIG on dark patterns and deceptive designs (DPs) within the global and transdisciplinary now are:
Knowledge-Sharing
We seek to share knowledge on the diversity of frameworks, methods, and tools used to understand the prevalence and impact of DPs on a variety of stakeholders. We aim to establish a global understanding of key concepts and theories (e.g., values, trust, deception), modes of practice, and perspectives on ethics across cultures and disciplines. We seek to link disparate knowledge bases and find commonalities. We will centre work that brings in culturally-sensitive epistemological frames and ontologies, highlights regional operational differences in design practice, and unearths local varieties of DPs.
Taking Action
We aim to generate solutions to DPs in a culturally-sensitive and collaborative way. The SIG will enable disparate parties to meet and combine forces on the creation of versatile and relevant solutions to DPs. We expect work on design strategies, educational platforms, cross-cultural initiatives, participatory design with consumer, industry, and/or legal representation, and more. We will particularly encourage work that seeks to develop international teams or identifies strategies relevant to global or localized design or regulatory efforts. This year, we have included an interactive activity to help facilitate this objective.
Prompts
How are DPs characterized within particular regional, cultural, and/or disciplinary contexts? How do users, experts, and other shareholders perceive DPs? Are there famous examples?
What terms and words are used to describe DPs in different disciplines and languages?
What is your personal connection to DPs? What experience/s led to your interest in DPs?
What frameworks are used to describe deceptive design practices? What terms exist? What language is used when describing DPs? What insights can we glean from translating words among languages?
What taxonomies are used to describe DPs? Have regional varieties of DPs been discovered?
What theories are used to understand how DPs work and what impact they can have on users?
What methods—academic, industrial, designerly, legal, governmental, social—are used to address DPs? Are there, for instance, informal communities banding around hashtags outside of English-speaking social platforms?
What values and codes of ethics are leveraged in discussions about UI-based digital manipulation?
What expert and industrial perspectives exist? What consumer and user perspectives exist? What other stakeholders are there? Are there cultural components? Underrepresented disciplinary frames?
What is HCI research on DPs missing?
What action is being taken in certain regions? What has been the cultural response to legal and social pushback against DPs? What can we learn from legal case studies in non-Western regions?
What solutions have been explored? What strategies have been successful? Are these technical, legal, industrial, social? What players and entities have been involved?
What laws, regulations, legal mandates, and governance has been developed around DPs? How has this affected design and industrial practice (or not)? What new issues have arisen?
What linkages are missing: locally and internationally? Within and cross-discipline? Where might there be opportunities for cross-pollination and achieving the critical mass needed for effective change at a global scale?
Organizers
The organizing team comprises researchers in the local Japanese and global research communities. We have contributed to building a dynamic space that crosses the regulatory, design, and HCI communities.
Institute of Science Tokyo
Indiana University
Maastricht University
University of Bremen
RWTH Aachen University
University of Twente
Meiji University
Assistants
Institute of Science Tokyo
Institute of Science Tokyo