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82 Notre Dame L. Rev. 583 (2006-2007)
Setting Software Defaults: Perspectives from Law, Computer Science and Behavioral Economics

handle is hein.journals/tndl82 and id is 591 raw text is: SETTING SOFTWARE DEFAULTS: PERSPECTIVES FROM LAW, COMPUTER SCIENCE AND BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS Jay P. Kesan* Rajiv C. Shaht INTRODUCTION ..................................................... 584 I. THE POWER OF DEFAULTS .................................... 589 A. Research on the Power of Defaults ........................ 590 B. The Role of Defaults in Software ......................... 591 C. Defaults in Software Affect a Variety of Issues ............. 595 D. Cultural Context of Software Defaults .................... 596 II. UNDERSTANDING DEFAULTS ................................. 597 A. Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Theory .............. 597 B. Behavioral Economics ................................. 601 C. Legal Scholarship ....................... .............. 605 D. Health Communication ................................. 610 E. The Missing Piece of Technical Ability ................... 611 © 2006 Jay P. Kesan & Rajiv C. Shah. Individuals and nonprofit institutions may reproduce and distribute copies of this Article in any format, at or below cost, for educational purposes, so long as each copy identifies the author, provides a citation to the Notre Dame Law Review, and includes this provision and copyright notice. * Professor, College of Law and the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. f Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, University of Illinois at Chicago. The authors would like to thank Matthew Kramer, Betsy Palathinkal, and Shyama Sridharan for their research assistance. The authors would also like to thank Greg Vetter and Allen Friedman for their useful comments and suggestions. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. IIS-0429217. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

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