3 papers
cs.CR2026
DPAgent-in-the-Middle: Agentic Defense and Repair Against AI-Groomed Deceptive Patterns
Zewei Shi, Ruoxi Sun, Haoyang Li +4
Privacy deceptive patterns in web interfaces systematically manipulate users into disclosing personal data, yet existing defenses are fragmented, static, and increasingly vulnerabl…
cs.CR2025
50 Shades of Deceptive Patterns: A Unified Taxonomy, Multimodal Detection, and Security Implications
Zewei Shi, Ruoxi Sun, Jieshan Chen +5
Deceptive patterns (DPs) are user interface designs deliberately crafted to manipulate users into unintended decisions, often by exploiting cognitive biases for the benefit of comp…
cs.CR2024
The Invisible Game on the Internet: A Case Study of Decoding Deceptive Patterns
Zewei Shi, Ruoxi Sun, Jieshan Chen +2
Deceptive patterns are design practices embedded in digital platforms to manipulate users, representing a widespread and long-standing issue in the web and mobile software developm…