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From Awareness to Action: Exploring End-User Empowerment Interventions for Dark Patterns in UX

September 11, 2025
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Yuwen Lu, Chao Zhang, Yuewen Yang, Yaxin Yao, Toby Jia-Jun Li
This research proposes an end-user-empowerment intervention approach to address UX dark patterns. It aims to help users become aware of dark patterns and their underlying intents, and to take action against them using a web augmentation approach. The study involved co-design workshops and a technology probe study to understand user needs and reactions to this empowerment.
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