Deceptive Designs
Research on dark patterns and manipulative interface strategies that capture and exploit user attention, their impact on user autonomy and wellbeing, and approaches to identify, measure, and mitigate them in practice. My work focuses on understanding how digital interfaces steal attention and developing design heuristics that respect rather than exploit user attention.
Attention-Capture Damaging Patterns
Defining and identifying attention capture deceptive designs in digital interfaces, understanding how dark patterns steal user attention.
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Digital Attention Heuristics
Developing design heuristics and frameworks that support user attention by design, creating interfaces that respect rather than exploit attention.
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Wellbeing‑Focused Design
Bridging digital wellbeing and usability through design interfaces that respect user attention and promote meaningful interactions.
Related Publications
The Digital Attention Heuristics: Supporting the User's Attention by Design
Alberto Monge Roffarello; Luigi De Russis; Kai Lukoff, ACM TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTER-HUMAN INTERACTION
DOI: 10.1145/3725215
Digital Wellbeing Lens: Design Interfaces That Respect User Attention
Alberto Monge Roffarello; Luigi De Russis; Massimiliano Pellegrino, the 2024 International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI '24)
Defining and Identifying Attention Capture Deceptive Designs in Digital Interfaces
Alberto MONGE ROFFARELLO; Kai Lukoff; Luigi DE RUSSIS, Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Towards Understanding the Dark Patterns That Steal Our Attention
Alberto Monge Roffarello; Luigi De Russis, Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems