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most citedWhat Makes a Dark Pattern... Dark? Design Attributes, Normative Considerations, and Measurement Methods

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cs.HC20213 cited

What Makes a Dark Pattern... Dark? Design Attributes, Normative Considerations, and Measurement Methods

Arunesh Mathur, Jonathan Mayer, Mihir Kshirsagar

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 bee…

cs.HC2019

Dark Patterns at Scale: Findings from a Crawl of 11K Shopping Websites

Arunesh Mathur, Gunes Acar, Michael J. Friedman +4

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. W…

cs.HC2018

Endorsements on Social Media: An Empirical Study of Affiliate Marketing Disclosures on YouTube and Pinterest

Arunesh Mathur, Arvind Narayanan, Marshini Chetty

Online advertisements that masquerade as non-advertising content pose numerous risks to users. Such hidden advertisements appear on social media platforms when content creators or…

cs.CY2018

Discovering Smart Home Internet of Things Privacy Norms Using Contextual Integrity

Noah Apthorpe, Yan Shvartzshnaider, Arunesh Mathur +2

The proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices for consumer "smart" homes raises concerns about user privacy. We present a survey method based on the Contextual Integrity (C…

cs.CR2018

Quantifying Users' Beliefs about Software Updates

Arunesh Mathur, Nathan Malkin, Marian Harbach +2

Software updates are critical to the performance, compatibility, and security of software systems. However, users do not always install updates, leaving their machines vulnerable t…

cs.SI2018

An Empirical Study of Affiliate Marketing Disclosures on YouTube and Pinterest

Arunesh Mathur, Arvind Narayanan, Marshini Chetty

While disclosures relating to various forms of Internet advertising are well established and follow specific formats, endorsement marketing disclosures are often open-ended in natu…