Mtg 12/26: Thu-15-Feb-2024

Outline for Today

Privacy

Administration

Response to Responses

  • three social roles of privacy
  • nothing of importance?

Today

  • CIPS will send you a membership card. It may take a few days, so please don’t leave it to the last minute
  • Group discussion of collective welfare: ‘Should designs deliver the greatest good for the greatest number of people? Or should design protect the interests of more vulnerable communities of users?’
  • Love in the age of AI?
  • Intrusive drones?
  • VIDEO: ‘Social Dilemma’ trailer
  • CHOICE
  • VIDEO: Your right to mental privacy
  • Answers to quiz:
    • Asymmetric dark patterns impose unequal burdens on the choices available to the user. The choices that benefit the service are feature prominently while the options that benefit the user are typically tucked away behind several clicks or are obscured from view by varying the style and position of the choice. Asymmetric dark patterns are particularly common in consent interfaces.
      • the Trick Questions dark pattern can impose a cognitive burden on choices that withhold consent by using confusing language and double negatives
      • the Confirmshaming dark pattern can use emotion to burden choices, associating guilt with certain choices and not others
      • Privacy Zuckering burdens choices with user interface friction, hiding privacy-respecting settings behind obscure menus.

Summary

Enjoy the break!

For Next Meeting

ACTION: Take quiz before next meeting

Wiki

Link to the UR Courses wiki page for this meeting

Media