ACM Conversational User Interfaces (CUI) 2023 will be held in Eindhoven, Netherlands from 19-21st July in 2023. The in-cooperation conference will integrate a workshop organized into two sessions. Both the conference and the workshop are to be held in a hybrid format. The workshop will be held through a keynote by Colin Gray on dark patterns in a surveillance capitalistic world. These conferences/workshops highlight the major challenges of dark patterns in users' online experience, and highlight the risks they represent.

Ever wonder where the privacy settings are on Facebook? How often do you mindlessly agree to cookie consent pop ups without thinking? Are you bamboozled by opt in/out questions? These deceptive tricks are known as “dark patterns”: interface design techniques that aim to trick or mislead Internet users. In this talk, guest Dr. Alex Beattie reveals the degree of the presence of dark patterns across the New Zealand Internet. He demonstrates how dark patterns cluster around online financial transactions and discusses how these tricks actively undermine user privacy. He will show how dark patterns are deployed as mechanisms to drive business revenue, facilitate customer surveillance, and reduce business operations costs. The talk will conclude with a sneak peek about his future research into the efficacy of dark patterns.