Presentation at the ACM CHI 2025 conference: “What makes XR Dark?”

We are thrilled to announce that our paper ‘What makes XR Dark?’ will be presented at ACM CHI 2025 in Yokohama! In the study, we analysed potential dark patterns in Extended Reality (XR) based on expert workshops.

The paper was written by Veronika Krauß during her stay in Michael Nebeling’s research lab at the University of Michigan in 2022 and published in the journal ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. The paper was written in collaboration with the Institute for Consumer Informatics, the University of Michigan, the University of Glasgow and TU Darmstadt. Our research identified ten novel dark patterns and 39 known dark patterns that can occur in XR applications. We also classified XR-specific properties that favour such manipulative designs, such as perception, spatiality and device sensing. These findings should help to mitigate potential harms and support regulators in the development of guidelines. You can find the full paper here: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3660340