People who experience intense anxiety about missing out on social events show specific brain activity patterns when receiving ...

Website designs that try to change your behavior cross a line when they outright deceive, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln ...

In 2010, British designer Harry Brignull coined a handy new term for an everyday annoyance: dark patterns, meaning digital interfaces that subtly manipulate people. It became a term of art used by ...

Like snowflakes and people, no two digital enterprises are exactly alike. Digital transformation, as with countless technology initiatives over the decades, will look different from company to company ...

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You’ve seen them before. Pop-ups with tiny X’s that make a window hard to close. Buttons and toggles in permissions boxes that are so confusing it’s difficult to understand what you’re agreeing to.

When it comes to digital entertainment, international companies often face the challenge of adapting features to comply with different jurisdictions' legal requirements. The use of countdown timers ...

Rapid digital revolution seems to have normalised vast personal data collection, necessitating a focus on transparency, ...

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In a recent article published in Nature communications*, researchers described a technique of capturing two-dimensional (2D) light patterns into deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and using high-throughput ...

In 2010, British designer Harry Brignull coined a handy new term for an everyday annoyance: dark patterns, meaning digital interfaces that subtly manipulate people. It became a term of art used by ...