Deceptive Patterns
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Multi-sensory Dark Patterns

Author
Karthikeya Puttur Venkatraj, Donald Degraen, Abdallah El Ali, Jan Gugenheimer, G. Huisman, Veronika Krauß, Christina Schneegass, Steeven Villa
Date
13 Apr 2026
Publisher
CHI Extended Abstracts
Focus
HCI & Psychology
Category
Academic Scholar

This meet-up aims to bring together researchers and practitioners with an interest in studying multi-sensory manipulative interface design, exploring how deceptive patterns for touch, sound, taste, and smell, but also lesser-known senses such as balance, pain, or interoception, can be created, embedded, and mitigated in and with current and future technologies.

Deceptive patterns in visual interfaces - subtle nudges that persuade or manipulate users to take a certain action - have been researched extensively. Yet, little is known about how these patterns can be translated to the other human senses and what other forms of deception could be implemented for them. This meet-up aims to bring together researchers and practitioners with an interest in studying multi-sensory manipulative interface design, exploring how deceptive patterns for touch, sound, taste, and smell, but also lesser-known senses such as balance, pain, or interoception, can be created, embedded, and mitigated in and with current and future technologies.