AidUI: Toward Automated Recognition of Dark Patterns in User Interfaces
September 11, 2025
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S M Hasan Mansur, Sabiha Salma, Damilola Awofisayo, Kevin Moran
This research introduces AidUI, an automated approach using computer vision and natural language processing to identify and classify ten UI dark patterns in application screenshots. A new dataset, ContextDP, was created for evaluation, demonstrating AidUI's effectiveness in detecting and localizing dark patterns, suggesting the feasibility of tools to help developers recognize and fix deceptive UI.
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