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Ken Mowry, vice president of member experience at Dupaco Community Credit Union, is familiar with the deep sigh that typically accompanies any call to an automated help line. The exasperated exhale often follows the robot’s first or second monotone inquiry of “Could you repeat that?” or possibly somewhere around minute three or four of the…
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…
Do you panic when you get a text message or call from a number you don’t recognize? Forget having to send that awkward ‘sorry, who is this’ text or Googling the phone number – there are several ways to track down the caller. TikToker Liz Perez posted a recent video detailing what to do when…
