Researchers find ‘dark patterns’ in Japanese mobile apps
Untranslation is the most common subclass of Linguistic Dead-Ends in the Japanese app market. Credit: ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Popular Japanese mobile apps have malicious design elements called dark patterns or deceptive user interface designs, researchers from Tokyo Tech have found. A new class of dark patterns, called “Linguistic Dead-Ends,” of types “Untranslation” and…
