Papers
Topics
Authors
Recent
Gemini 2.5 Flash
Gemini 2.5 Flash
102 tokens/sec
GPT-4o
59 tokens/sec
Gemini 2.5 Pro Pro
43 tokens/sec
o3 Pro
6 tokens/sec
GPT-4.1 Pro
50 tokens/sec
DeepSeek R1 via Azure Pro
28 tokens/sec
2000 character limit reached

Trickery: Exploring a Serious Game Approach to Raise Awareness of Deceptive Patterns (2401.06247v3)

Published 11 Jan 2024 in cs.HC

Abstract: Deceptive patterns are often used in interface design to manipulate users into taking actions they would not otherwise take, such as consenting to excessive data collection. We present Trickery, a narrative serious game that incorporates seven gamified deceptive patterns. We designed the game as a potential mechanism for raising awareness of, and increasing resistance to, deceptive patterns through direct consequences of player actions. We conducted an explorative gameplay study to examine player behavior when confronted with the game Trickery. In addition, we conducted an online survey to shed light on the perceived helpfulness of our gamified deceptive patterns. Our results reveal different player motivations and driving forces that players used to justify their behavior when confronted with deceptive patterns in the Trickery game. In addition, we identified several influencing factors that need to be considered when adapting deceptive patterns into gameplay. Overall, the approach appears to be a promising solution for increasing user understanding and awareness of deceptive patterns.

View on arXiv
Definition Search Book Streamline Icon: https://streamlinehq.com
References (39)
  1. Privacy and human behavior in the age of information. Science 347, 6221 (2015), 509–514.
  2. Alessandro Acquisti and Jens Grossklags. 2005. Privacy and rationality in individual decision making. IEEE security & privacy 3, 1 (2005), 26–33.
  3. Opeyemi Priscilla Akinyemi. 2022. "Dark Cookie" - A serious game to train users to spot and interact with dark patterns in cookie banners. Master thesis. University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg. http://hdl.handle.net/10993/52802
  4. Maxine Alterio and Janice McDrury. 2003. Learning through storytelling in higher education: Using reflection and experience to improve learning. Routledge.
  5. An introduction to Serious game Definitions and concepts. Serious games & simulation for risks management 11, 1 (2011), 11–15.
  6. Daniel Anderson and Richard von Seck. 2020. The GDPR and its impact on the web. Network 1 (2020).
  7. Katrin Becker. 2021. What’s the difference between gamification, serious games, educational games, and game-based learning. Academia Letters 209 (2021), 1–4.
  8. PrivaCity: A Chatbot Game to Raise Privacy Awareness Among Teenagers. In Informatics in Schools. New Ideas in School Informatics, Sergei N. Pozdniakov and Valentina Dagienė (Eds.). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 11913. Springer International Publishing, Cham, 293–304. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33759-9{_}23
  9. ”I am Definitely Manipulated, Even When I am Aware of it. It’s Ridiculous!” - Dark Patterns from the End-User Perspective. In Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2021, Wendy Ju, Lora Oehlberg, Sean Follmer, Sarah Fox, and Stacey Kuznetsov (Eds.). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 763–776. https://doi.org/10.1145/3461778.3462086
  10. Tales from the Dark Side: Privacy Dark Strategies and Privacy Dark Patterns. Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies 2016, 4 (2016), 237–254. https://doi.org/10.1515/popets-2016-0038
  11. Virginia Braun and Victoria Clarke. 2006. Using thematic analysis in psychology. Qualitative research in psychology 3, 2 (2006), 77–101.
  12. H. Brignull and M. Leiser. 13.09.2023. Deceptive Patterns - Home. https://www.deceptive.design/
  13. Dark patterns-user interfaces designed to trick people. In Proceedings of the Poster Presentation, Australian Psychological Society Congress, Sydney, NSW, Australia. 21–23.
  14. Gregory Conti and Edward Sobiesk. 2010. Malicious Interface Design: Exploiting the User. Ph. D. Dissertation. United States Military Academy, West Point, New York 10996. https://doi.org/10.1145/1772690.1772719
  15. UI Dark Patterns and Where to Find Them. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Regina Bernhaupt, Florian ’Floyd’ Mueller, David Verweij, Josh Andres, Joanna McGrenere, Andy Cockburn, Ignacio Avellino, Alix Goguey, Pernille Bjørn, Shengdong Zhao, Briane Paul Samson, and Rafal Kocielnik (Eds.). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376600
  16. Are privacy dashboards good for end users? Evaluating user perceptions and reactions to Google’s My Activity. In 30th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 21). 483–500.
  17. Julia Giese and Martin Stabauer. 2022. Factors that Influence Cookie Acceptance: Characteristics of Cookie Notices that Users Perceive to Affect Their Decisions. In International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Springer, 272–285.
  18. The Dark (Patterns) Side of UX Design. Ph. D. Dissertation. Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3174108
  19. Guess Who? - A Serious Game for Cybersecurity Professionals. In Games and Learning Alliance, Iza Marfisi-Schottman, Francesco Bellotti, Ludovic Hamon, and Roland Klemke (Eds.). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 12517. Springer International Publishing, Cham, 421–427. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63464-3{_}41
  20. Riskio: A Serious Game for Cyber Security Awareness and Education. Computers & Security 95 (2020), 101827. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cose.2020.101827
  21. Jaap-Henk Hoepman. 2014. Privacy Design Strategies. In ICT systems security and privacy protection (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology), Nora Cuppens-Boulahia, Frédéric Cuppens, Sushil Jajodia, Anas Abou El Kalam, and Thierry Sans (Eds.). Springer, Heidelberg, 446–459. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55415-5{_}38
  22. Daniel Kahneman. 2011. Thinking, Fast and Slow. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [S.I.].
  23. Nuri Kara. 2021. A systematic review of the use of serious games in science education. Contemporary Educational Technology 13, 2 (2021), ep295.
  24. Self-disclosure and privacy calculus on social networking sites: The role of culture: Intercultural dynamics of privacy calculus. Wirtschaftsinformatik 54 (2012), 123–133.
  25. Chris Lewis. 2014. Irresistible Apps: Motivational design patterns for apps, games, and web-based communities. https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-1-4302-6422-4.pdf
  26. Delores D. Liston. 1994. Story-Telling and Narrative: A Neurophilosophical Perspective. Technical Report. University of North Carolina. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED372092.
  27. From Awareness to Action: Exploring End-User Empowerment Interventions for Dark Patterns in UX. arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.17846 (2023).
  28. Sofia Niovi Maragkoudaki and Christos Kalloniatis. 2022. Virtual Reality as a mean for increasing privacy awareness: The escape room example. In Proceedings of the 26th Pan-Hellenic Conference on Informatics, Nikitas N. Karanikolas, Christos Troussas, Michael Gr. Vassilakopoulos, Stefanos Kollias, Christos Douligeris, and Ioannis Voyiatzis (Eds.). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 261–266. https://doi.org/10.1145/3575879.3576002
  29. Dark Patterns at Scale. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 3, CSCW (2019), 1–32. https://doi.org/10.1145/3359183
  30. What Makes a Dark Pattern… Dark?. In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Yoshifumi Kitamura, Aaron Quigley, Katherine Isbister, Takeo Igarashi, Pernille Bjørn, and Steven Drucker (Eds.). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445610
  31. Steven Reiss. 2004. Multifaceted nature of intrinsic motivation: The theory of 16 basic desires. Review of general psychology 8, 3 (2004), 179–193.
  32. Ronald W Rogers. 1975. A protection motivation theory of fear appeals and attitude change1. The journal of psychology 91, 1 (1975), 93–114.
  33. Johanna Schäwel. 2018. How to Raise Users’ Awareness of Online Privacy: An Empirical and Theoretical Approach for Examining the Impact of Persuasive Privacy Support Measures on Users’ Self-Disclosure on Online Social Networking Sites. Ph. D. Dissertation. https://doi.org/10.17185/duepublico/70691
  34. Johannes Schiebener and Matthias Brand. 2015. Decision making under objective risk conditions–a review of cognitive and emotional correlates, strategies, feedback processing, and external influences. Neuropsychology review 25 (2015), 171–198.
  35. (Un)informed Consent. In Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Lorenzo Cavallaro, Johannes Kinder, XiaoFeng Wang, and Jonathan Katz (Eds.). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 973–990. https://doi.org/10.1145/3319535.3354212
  36. Older and wiser? Facebook use, privacy concern, and privacy protection in the life stages of emerging, young, and middle adulthood. Social Media+ Society 1, 2 (2015), 2056305115616149.
  37. Perceptions of Digital Footprints and the Value of Privacy.. In IoTBDS. 80–91.
  38. Bo Xiao and Izak Benbasat. 2011. Product-Related Deception in E-Commerce: A Theoretical Perspective. MIS Quarterly 35, 1 (2011), 169–195. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23043494
  39. Yu Zhonggen et al. 2019. A meta-analysis of use of serious games in education over a decade. International Journal of Computer Games Technology 2019 (2019).
User Edit Pencil Streamline Icon: https://streamlinehq.com
Authors (3)
  1. Kirill Kronhardt (7 papers)
  2. Kevin Rolfes (1 paper)
  3. Jens Gerken (15 papers)

Summary

We haven't generated a summary for this paper yet.

Ai Sparkles Streamline Icon: https://streamlinehq.com Summarize Now
X Twitter Logo Streamline Icon: https://streamlinehq.com

Tweets