Growing Up With Dark Patterns: How Children Perceive Malicious User Interface Designs
René Schäfer, Sarah Sahabi, Annabell Brocker, Jan Borchers · Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction · 2024
Apps and websites increasingly employ dark patterns, malicious interface design strategies that nudge people towards making decisions against their best interests. So far, dark patterns research has focused almost exclusively on adults. Today, however, children grow up with easy access to apps and online content, and they are particularly vulnerable to manipulation. Therefore, we aim to better understand how dark patterns impact children.