Mind-proofing Your Phone: Navigating the Digital Minefield with GreaseTerminator

Siddhartha Datta; Konrad Kollnig; Nigel Shadbolt

doi:10.1145/3490099.3511152

Mind-proofing Your Phone: Navigating the Digital Minefield with GreaseTerminator

Siddhartha Datta^*, Konrad Kollnig, Nigel Shadbolt

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Abstract

Digital harms are widespread in the mobile ecosystem. As these devices gain ever more prominence in our daily lives, so too increases the potential for malicious attacks against individuals. The last line of defense against a range of digital harms - including digital distraction, political polarisation through hate speech, and children being exposed to damaging material - is the user interface. This work introduces GreaseTerminator to enable researchers to develop, deploy, and test interventions against these harms with end-users. We demonstrate the ease of intervention development and deployment, as well as the broad range of harms potentially covered with GreaseTerminator in five in-depth case studies.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	27th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, IUI 2022
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	523-536
Number of pages	14
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450391443
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3490099.3511152
Publication status	Published - 22 Mar 2022
Externally published	Yes
Event	27th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, IUI 2022 - Virtual, Online, Helsinki, Finland Duration: 21 Mar 2022 → 25 Mar 2022 https://iui.acm.org/2022/

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Series	IUI: International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces. Proceedings

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Conference	27th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, IUI 2022
Country/Territory	Finland
City	Helsinki
Period	21/03/22 → 25/03/22
Internet address	https://iui.acm.org/2022/

Keywords

dark patterns
digital harms
digital intervention
digital self-control
mobile app
online harms
program repair

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Datta, S, Kollnig, K & Shadbolt, N 2022, Mind-proofing Your Phone: Navigating the Digital Minefield with GreaseTerminator. in 27th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, IUI 2022. Association for Computing Machinery, IUI: International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces. Proceedings, pp. 523-536, 27th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, IUI 2022, Helsinki, Finland, 21/03/22. https://doi.org/10.1145/3490099.3511152

Mind-proofing Your Phone: Navigating the Digital Minefield with GreaseTerminator. / Datta, Siddhartha; Kollnig, Konrad; Shadbolt, Nigel.
27th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, IUI 2022. Association for Computing Machinery, 2022. p. 523-536 (IUI: International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces. Proceedings).

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