Publications

Conference Publication

Towards Key Contributing Factors in Identifying Dark Pattern Autonomy Violations under the EU Digital Services Act
Ahuja, S., Gunawan, J., Bielova, N., & Santos, C. T. (2025). Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’25 Companion), July 5–9, 2025, Funchal, Portugal. 

Conference Presentation

How Usable is Consent Withdrawal on the Web? UI Requirements and Expert Evaluation.
Ahuja, S., Kancherla, G. P., Santos, C. T., Bielova, N., & Bichhawat, A. (2025). 15th Workshop on Privacy Protection (APVP ‘25), Poitiers, France.

Book Chapter

Understanding the scope of Article 25 of the DSA in regulating dark patterns (Forthcoming)
Santos, C., Ahuja, S., Bielova, N., Utz C. (2025). In R. Gellert, C. Santos, & H. Schraffenberger (Eds.), Dark patterns and deceptive design patterns: Conceptualising and systematising a key contemporary phenomenon. Edward Elgar.

Preprint Under Review

Usable and Lawful: Can Consent be Both?
Santos, C., Bielova, N., Gray, C., & Ahuja, S. (2024). Information & Communications Technology Law.

Journal Publications

Cultivating Ethics Sensitivity in Design: Impact of Integrating Ethics Within K 12 Design Education
Ahuja, S. & Kumar, J. (2024). International Journal of Technology and Design Education. [Full-text]

Conceptualizations of User Autonomy within the Normative Evaluation of Dark Patterns
Ahuja, S. & Kumar, J. (2022). Ethics & Information Technology, 24(4), Article 52. [Full-text]

The influence of business incentives and attitudes on ethics discourse in the information technology industry
Ahuja, S. & Kumar, J. (2021). Philosophy & Technology, 34, 941-966. [Full-text]

Conference Publications

‘I don’t get affected by it at all’: The impact of cookie consent on  user autonomy and user experience
Ahuja, S., Nagpal, D., & Kumar, J. (2025). 10th International Conference on Research into Design (ICoRD '25), Hyderabad, India. 

Why Doesn’t Microsoft Let Me Sleep? How Automaticity of Windows  Updates Impacts User Autonomy
Ahuja, S., Jain, R., & Kumar, J. (2025). 10th International Conference on Research into Design (ICoRD '25), Hyderabad, India. 

Understanding Ethical Thinking in Design Education: A Linkographic Study
Ahuja, S. & Kumar, J. (2024). EduCHI 2024: 6th Annual Symposium on HCI Education (EduCHI ’24), New York, NY, USA.  

Layered Analysis of Persuasive Designs: A Framework for Identification and Autonomy Evaluation of Dark Patterns
Mobilizing Research and Regulatory Action on Dark Patterns and Deceptive Design Practices Workshop at CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems,  Honolulu, HI (Hybrid Workshop), USA.

Ethics as Child’s Play: Sensitizing Children Early On about Design Ethics
Ahuja, S. & Kumar, J. (2023). 9th International Conference on Research into Design (ICoRD '23), Bengaluru, India. [Full-text]

Courselect: Motivation-Centric Course Recommendation for  University Students
Singh, A., Ahuja, S., & Kumar, J. (2023). 9th International Conference on Research into Design (ICoRD '23), Bengaluru, India. [Full-text]

Assistant or Master: Envisioning the User Autonomy Implications of Virtual  Assistants
Ahuja, S. & Kumar, J. (2022). 4th International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces (CUI ’22), Glasgow, United  Kingdom.

Ethical Aspects of Health Sensing Applications in E-Textiles
Ahuja, S. & Kumar, J. (2022). 4th International  Conference on the Challenges, Opportunities, Innovations and Applications in Electronic Textiles (E Textiles 2022), Nottingham, United Kingdom.

A Framework for Ethics Education in Persuasive UX Design
Ahuja, S. & Kumar, J. (2022). 16th International  Conference on Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction (IHCI '22), Lisbon, Portugal.

How Ethical are Persuasive Design Practices? A Proposal for Assessment of  Ethics in HCI Design
Ahuja, S. & Kumar, J. (2021). 8th International Conference on Research into Design (ICoRD ’21), Mumbai, India. [Full-text]

Surveillance based Persuasion: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Ahuja, S. & Kumar, J. (2020). 4th  International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications (CHIRA ’20), Budapest, Hungary.