Title
Reading news with a purpose: Explaining user profiles for self-actualization
Author
Sullivan, Emily (TU Delft Web Information Systems)
Bountouridis, D. (TU Delft Web Information Systems)
Harambam, Jaron J. (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
Najafian, S. (TU Delft Web Information Systems)
Loecherbach, Felicia (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Makhortykh, Mykola (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
Kelen, Domokos (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
Wilkinson, Daricia (Clemson University)
Graus, David (FD Mediagroep)
Tintarev, N. (TU Delft Web Information Systems)
Date
2019
Abstract
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.
Subject
Explainability
News recommender systems
Self-actualization
User control
User profile
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1145/3314183.3323456
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York
ISBN
978-1-4503-6711-0
Source
ACM UMAP 2019 Adjunct - Adjunct Publication of the 27th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization: Adjunct Publication of the 27th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization
Event
27th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, UMAP 2019, 2019-06-09 → 2019-06-12, Larnaca, Cyprus
Series
ACM UMAP 2019 Adjunct - Adjunct Publication of the 27th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization
Part of collection
Institutional Repository
Document type
conference paper
Rights
© 2019 Emily Sullivan, D. Bountouridis, Jaron J. Harambam, S. Najafian, Felicia Loecherbach, Mykola Makhortykh, Domokos Kelen, Daricia Wilkinson, David Graus, N. Tintarev