Ritika Gairola

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"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 '25CorrespondingTechnology 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 '25CorrespondingAlgorithmic 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…

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