TY - GEN
T1 - Reading news with a purpose
T2 - 27th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, UMAP 2019
AU - Sullivan, Emily
AU - Bountouridis, Dimitrios
AU - Harambam, Jaron J.
AU - Najafian, Shabnam
AU - Loecherbach, Felicia
AU - Makhortykh, Mykola
AU - Kelen, Domokos
AU - Wilkinson, Daricia
AU - Graus, David
AU - Tintarev, Nava
PY - 2019/6/6
Y1 - 2019/6/6
N2 - Personalized content provided by recommender systems is an integral part of the current online news reading experience. However, news recommender systems are criticized for their'black-box' approach to data collection and processing, and for their lack of explainability and transparency. This paper focuses on explaining user profiles constructed from aggregated reading behavior data, used to provide content-based recommendations. The paper makes a first step toward consolidating epistemic values of news providers and news readers. We present an evaluation of an explanation interface reflecting these values, and find that providing users with different goals for self-actualization (i.e., Broaden Horizons vs. Discover the Unexplored) influences their reading intentions for news recommendations.
AB - Personalized content provided by recommender systems is an integral part of the current online news reading experience. However, news recommender systems are criticized for their'black-box' approach to data collection and processing, and for their lack of explainability and transparency. This paper focuses on explaining user profiles constructed from aggregated reading behavior data, used to provide content-based recommendations. The paper makes a first step toward consolidating epistemic values of news providers and news readers. We present an evaluation of an explanation interface reflecting these values, and find that providing users with different goals for self-actualization (i.e., Broaden Horizons vs. Discover the Unexplored) influences their reading intentions for news recommendations.
KW - Explainability
KW - News recommender systems
KW - Self-actualization
KW - User control
KW - User profile
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U2 - 10.1145/3314183.3323456
DO - 10.1145/3314183.3323456
M3 - Conference contribution
T3 - ACM UMAP 2019 Adjunct - Adjunct Publication of the 27th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization
SP - 241
EP - 245
BT - ACM UMAP 2019 Adjunct
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Y2 - 9 June 2019 through 12 June 2019
ER -
