Refereed Conference Proceedings

1. Ritika Gairola, Colin M. Gray, Jingxin Dong, Kyung Jin Jeong, Ege Otenen, and Juan J. Sarria. 2026. "Social Media Killed Our Generation": Teenagers' Felt Experiences of Harm on Social Media. In Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26), April 13--17, 2026, Barcelona, Spain. ACM, New York, NY, USA 15 Pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3772318.3791519 (Awarded Best Paper) 

2. Shruthi Sai Chivukula, Shikha Mehta, Colin M. Gray, and Ritika Gairola. 2025. Anti-Heroes: A Role-Based Method to Encourage Ethical Deliberation. In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 3028–3044. https://doi.org/10.1145/3715336.3735776 

3. Colin M. Gray, Thomas Mildner, and Ritika Gairola. 2025. Getting Trapped in Amazon's "Iliad Flow": A Foundation for the Temporal Analysis of Dark Patterns. In Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 225, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3713828 

4. Gray, C. M., Gairola, R., Boucaud, N., Hashmi, M., Chivukula, S. S., Menon, A. R., & Duane, J.-N. (2024, July). Legal trouble?: UX practitioners’ engagement with law and regulation. Designing Interactive Systems Conference. DIS ’24: Designing Interactive Systems Conference, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark. https://doi.org/10.1145/3656156.3663698 

Extended Abstracts 

1. Ritika Gairola. 2025. Centering Harm in Socio-technical Systems: Connecting Design, User Experience, and Policy. In Companion Publication of the 2025 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW Companion '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 11–14. https://doi.org/10.1145/3715070.3747333 

2. Ritika Gairola and Colin M. Gray. 2025. How is "Public Policy" Used in HCI Scholarship? In Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 326, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1145/3706599.3719997 

Book Chapters

1. Gray, C. M., Gairola, R., Mildner T.: “Mapping the Temporal Dynamics of Dark Patterns: A Multi-Scale Approach to Analyze Dark Patterns” Book chapter in "Dark Patterns: Conceptualizing a Key Contemporary Phenomenon" Edited by Raphaël Gellert, Hanna Schraffenberger, and Cristiana Santos; Edward Elgar Publishing Book Chapter (In press) Fall 2026

Opinion Essays

1. Shivani Singh and Ritika Gairola BrandEquity, E. T. (2021, October 7). Podcasts Ga Ga - But is the law listening? ETBrandEquity.