Publications

These preprints reflect my ongoing projects:

2024

Which Online  Platforms and Dark Patterns Should Be Regulated under Article 25 of the DSA
Santos, C., Bielova, N., Ahuja, S., Utz, C., Gray, C., & Mertens, G. (2024). Available at SSRN.

Usable and Lawful: Can Consent be Both?
Santos, C., Bielova, N., Gray, C., & Ahuja, S. (2024). Available at SSRN. 

2024

Cultivating Ethics Sensitivity in Design: Impact of Integrating Ethics Within K 12 Design Education
Ahuja, S. & Kumar, J. (2024). International Journal of Technology and Design Education. [Full-text]

2022

Conceptualizations of User Autonomy within the Normative Evaluation of Dark Patterns
Ahuja, S. & Kumar, J. (2022). Ethics & Information Technology, 24(4), Article 52. [Full-text]

2021

The influence of business incentives and attitudes on ethics discourse in the information technology industry
Ahuja, S. & Kumar, J. (2021). Philosophy & Technology, 34, 941-966. [Full-text]

2025 (Forthcoming)

‘I don’t get affected by it at all’: The impact of cookie consent on  user autonomy and user experience.
Ahuja, S., Nagpal, D., & Kumar, J. (2025). 10th International Conference on Research into Design (ICoRD '25), Hyderabad, India. 

Why Doesn’t Microsoft Let Me Sleep? How Automaticity of Windows  Updates Impacts User Autonomy.
Ahuja, S., Jain, R., & Kumar, J. (2025). 10th International Conference on Research into Design (ICoRD '25), Hyderabad, India. 

2024

Understanding Ethical Thinking in Design Education: A Linkographic Study
Ahuja, S. & Kumar, J. (2024). EduCHI 2024: 6th Annual Symposium on HCI Education (EduCHI ’24), New York, NY, USA.  

Layered Analysis of Persuasive Designs: A Framework for Identification and Autonomy Evaluation of Dark Patterns
Mobilizing Research and Regulatory Action on Dark Patterns and Deceptive Design Practices Workshop at CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems,  Honolulu, HI (Hybrid Workshop), USA.

2023

Ethics as Child’s Play: Sensitizing Children Early On about Design Ethics
Ahuja, S. & Kumar, J. (2023). 9th International Conference on Research into Design (ICoRD '23), Bengaluru, India. [Full-text]

Courselect: Motivation-Centric Course Recommendation for  University Students
Singh, A., Ahuja, S., & Kumar, J. (2023). 9th International Conference on Research into Design (ICoRD '23), Bengaluru, India. [Full-text]

2022

Assistant or Master: Envisioning the User Autonomy Implications of Virtual  Assistants
Ahuja, S. & Kumar, J. (2022). 4th International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces (CUI ’22), Glasgow, United  Kingdom.

Ethical Aspects of Health Sensing Applications in E-Textiles
Ahuja, S. & Kumar, J. (2022). 4th International  Conference on the Challenges, Opportunities, Innovations and Applications in Electronic Textiles (E Textiles 2022), Nottingham, United Kingdom.

A Framework for Ethics Education in Persuasive UX Design
Ahuja, S. & Kumar, J. (2022). 16th International  Conference on Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction (IHCI '22), Lisbon, Portugal.

2021

How Ethical are Persuasive Design Practices? A Proposal for Assessment of  Ethics in HCI Design
Ahuja, S. & Kumar, J. (2021). 8th International Conference on Research into Design (ICoRD ’21), Mumbai, India. [Full-text]

2020

Surveillance based Persuasion: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Ahuja, S. & Kumar, J. (2020). 4th  International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications (CHIRA ’20), Budapest, Hungary.