DESIGNATE

When interacting with digital user interfaces on the Internet, decision architectures are increasingly being used that are intended to influence users' decision-making, so-called dark patterns. Through the collaboration of computer science, psychology and law, the TUDisc-funded project DESIGNATE (Disruption on the Internet: More Sovereignty Against Deceptive Technologies, start date: 1/4/2022) is investigating how effective selected dark patterns are and whether interventions can raise users' awareness of such subliminal influence, to what extent software-based countermeasures can be considered and whether the legal framework takes sufficient account of this phenomenon or whether there is a need for additional legal regulation.

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