I. Adaji

The Impact of Ethical Perceptions on Trust in Persuasive Technologies

Persuasive technologies are increasingly embedded in areas such as health, education, and e-commerce, raising ethical concerns about their influence on user autonomy, privacy, consent, and trust. While prior theoretical work emphasizes the importance of ethical design for building trustworthy systems, there remains lim...

Towards a Cross-Cultural Framework for Dark Patterns

Dark patterns are manipulative interface design strategies that exploit cognitive biases and information asymmetries to steer users toward outcomes that benefit providers at users’ expense. While existing research has made considerable progress in cataloguing and classifying these patterns, it largely assumes a uniform...

Prompt Before You Train: When Prompt Optimization Outperforms RLAIF for Small Language Models