Fruitful collaborations that turned into wonderful friendships are the foundation of my thesis, and I would like to share this honour with you. Thank you all! 🫶

For anyone interested, the full dissertation is available here:
doi.org/10.26092/eli...

I would love to express my deepest gratitude to everyone who supported me throughout this journey! While the dissertation carries my name, it was certainly not a "one-man job."

The included research investigates deceptive design strategies in various online contexts, with a particular focus on social media. The work further explores how responsible and ethics-informed design can help reduce manipulation and support more transparent, user-centred technologies.

And in the same session, right after:

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

📅: Wednesday, 30 April, 2:10 pm - 2:22 pm.
📍: G304
🔗: programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro...
📄: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

On Wednesday, 30 April:

"A Comparative Study of How People With and Without ADHD Recognise and Avoid Dark Patterns on Social Media"

📅: Wednesday, 30 April, 2:10 pm - 2:22 pm.
📍: G304
🔗: programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro...
📄: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

On Tuesday, 29 April, our SIG will be on
Global and Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Dark Patterns and Deceptive Design Practice
ダークパターンとひとをだますデザインに関する国際的かつ学際的な交流
📅: Tuesday, 29 April, 2:10 pm - 2:22 pm.
📍: G217
🔗: programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro...
📄: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Hey @derossinger.bsky.social, das meiste entweder online via Google Scholar, der ACM digital library oder über meine Website (www.thomasmildner.me). Wenn du was nicht findest, sag gern noch mal Bescheid und ich versuch zu helfen :)

@graydesign.bsky.social @johannagunawan.bsky.social @thomasmildner.me

Here‘s now the copy for the arxiv version: arxiv.org/abs/2412.05039

The second is titled "Finding a Way Through the Social Media Labyrinth", for which I am incredibly happy that it received an honourable mention 🏆. Huge Thanks go to my co-authors Gian-Luca Savino, Susanne Putze, and Rainer Malaka.

doi.org/10.1145/3701...

The first was "Level Up or Game Over" 🎮 for which I want to thank my former student Sam Niknejad whose thesis is the foundation for this work. And of course all other co-authors: @nimazargham.bsky.social, Susanne Putze, and Rainer Malka! 🎉

doi.org/10.1145/3701...

As one of the authors, currently it’s only in ACM’s digital library. But I will also upload our author version on arxiv.