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Date: April 21 from 1:00-2:00 p.m. MT Edmonton

Dark Patterns and Addictive Design: Unpacking the tricks and “hacks” designers use to create habit-forming media.

Description: This session outlines how our everyday technologies—from tax software to fitbit health trackers to games and social media—leverage psychological “hacks” and “dark patterns” that encourage us to act in ways that are not always in our best interests. Jen will draw from the fields of Sociology, Psychology and HCI (Human-Computer-Interaction) to talk about “addiction by design”, illustrating the growing influence of “Persuasive Technology” in our digital tools and spaces, and the ethical conflicts that may arise as a result. At the end of this session, you should have a better understanding of some of the many tricks designers use to foster your own compulsive device use, as well as be able to identify some of the underlying reasons as to why our brains are so easily addicted to, influenced, and persuaded by phones, games, and online media.

Bio: Jennifer R. Whitson grew up on a cattle farm just north of Alexander, Alberta and is now an Associate Professor at the Stratford School of Interaction Design and Business and in the Sociology and Legal Studies Department, both at the University of Waterloo in Ontario. Her research focuses on the secret life of software, the people behind making it, and how both of these impacts our daily lives. Currently, her projects focus on indie game makers, digital media incubators, and the surveillance implications of data-driven design. In a recent study she has conducted ethnographic fieldwork within game studios and within developer communities in order to learn about the various struggles that new media producers face in finding a balance between creative work and economic sustainability. A focal question this research asks is how in a ‘sharing’ community where the majority of games are low-cost or free manages to do what they love while still being able to pay rent.

Twitter of presenter: @jen_whitson
Website of presenter: https://jenniferwhitson.com/

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