Colin M. Gray

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The Dark Patterns Knowledge Stack: Exploring New Ways to Negotiate Context, Law, and Design

Research on dark patterns has grown rapidly, but challenges remain in situating these practices within broader socio-technical, legal, and design contexts. In this essay, I introduce the concept of the "dark patterns knowledge stack" as a new way of synthesizing evidence about manipulative, coercive, and deceptive des…

CHI '262nd AuthorBest PaperCyberbullying & Online Harassment +2

"Social Media Killed Our Generation": Teenagers' Felt Experiences of Harm on Social Media

Social media platforms are deeply embedded in teenagers’ daily lives, shaping their identities, relationships, and leisure time while introducing risks such as social pressure, harmful content, and addiction. While attention capture mechanisms and dark patterns are increasingly recognized as contributors to the harm t…

DIS '253rd AuthorTechnology Ethics & Critical HCI +1

Anti-Heroes: A Role-Based Method to Encourage Ethical Deliberation

HCI and design researchers have designed, adopted, and customized a range of ethics-focused methods to inscribe values and support ethical decision-making in a design process. In this paper, we add to this body of resources, constructing a method that surfaces the designer's intentions in an action-focused way, encour…

CHI '251st AuthorAlgorithmic Transparency & Auditability +2

Getting Trapped in Amazon's "Iliad Flow": A Foundation for the Temporal Analysis of Dark Patterns

Dark patterns are ubiquitous in digital systems, impacting users throughout their journeys on many popular apps and websites. While substantial efforts from the research community in the last five years have led to consolidated taxonomies and an ontology of dark patterns, most characterizations of these patterns have…

CHI '255th+ AuthorHonorable MentionTechnology Ethics & Critical HCI +1

A Feminist Care Ethics Toolkit for Community-Based Design: Bridging Theory and Practice

Existing ethics frameworks for participatory engagement in HCI often overlook the nuanced ethical challenges of dynamic community-based contexts given the latter’s relational nature. We hope to bridge this gap by grounding feminist care ethics in actionable tools for community-based projects to enhance ethical engagem…

DIS '24CorrespondingDark Patterns Recognition +1

''My Mother Told Me These Things are Always Fake" - Understanding Teenagers' Experiences with Manipulative Designs

Manipulative and deceptive design practices are ubiquitous, impacting technology users in various ways across several domains. Certain groups are likely more susceptible to these impacts but have not received sufficient attention yet. In this paper, we seek to characterize one such understudied group, describing teena…

CHI '241st AuthorTechnology Ethics & Critical HCI +2

Building an Ethics-Focused Action Plan: Roles, Process Moves, and Trajectories

Design and technology practitioners are increasingly aware of the ethical impact of their work practices, desiring tools to support their ethical awareness across a range of contexts. In this paper, we report on findings from a series of six co-creation workshops with 26 technology and design practitioners that suppor…

CHI '241st AuthorAI Ethics, Fairness & Accountability +1

An Ontology of Dark Patterns Knowledge: Foundations, Definitions, and a Pathway for Shared Knowledge-Building

Deceptive and coercive design practices are increasingly used by companies to extract profit, harvest data, and limit consumer choice. Dark patterns represent the most common contemporary amalgamation of these problematic practices, connecting designers, technologists, scholars, regulators, and legal professionals in…

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