4 papers
Deception by Design: A Temporal Dark Patterns Audit of McDonald's Self-Ordering Kiosk Flow
Aditya Kumar Purohit, Yuwei Liu, Manon Berney +2
Self-ordering kiosks (SOKs) are widely deployed in fast food restaurants, transforming food ordering into digitally mediated, self-navigated interactions. While these systems enhan…
A Conditional Companion: Lived Experiences of People with Mental Health Disorders Using LLMs
Aditya Kumar Purohit, Hendrik Heuer
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used for mental health support, yet little is known about how people with mental health challenges engage with them, how they evaluate…
When Handwriting Goes Social: Creativity, Anonymity, and Communication in Graphonymous Online Spaces
Aditya Kumar Purohit, Aditya Upadhyaya, Nicolas Ruiz +2
While most digital communication platforms rely on text, relatively little research has examined how users engage through handwriting and drawing in anonymous, collaborative enviro…
Scrolling in the Deep: Analysing Contextual Influences on Intervention Effectiveness during Infinite Scrolling on Social Media
Luca-Maxim Meinhardt, Maryam Elhaidary, Mark Colley +4
Infinite scrolling on social media platforms is designed to encourage prolonged engagement, leading users to spend more time than desired, which can provoke negative emotions. Inte…