More Human or More AI? Visualizing Human-AI Collaboration Disclosures in Journalistic News Production

Conference Paper (2026)
Author(s)

Amber Kusters (Universiteit Utrecht, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI))

Pooja Prajod (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI))

Pablo Cesar (TU Delft - Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI))

Abdallah El Ali (Universiteit Utrecht, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI))

Research Group
Multimedia Computing
DOI related publication
https://doi.org/10.1145/3772318.3791288 Final published version
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Publication Year
2026
Language
English
Research Group
Multimedia Computing
Article number
729
Publisher
ACM
ISBN (electronic)
9798400722783
Event
2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2026 (2026-04-13 - 2026-04-17), Barcelona, Spain
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Abstract

Within journalistic editorial processes, disclosing AI usage is currently limited to simplistic labels, which misses the nuance of how humans and AI collaborated on a news article. Through co-design sessions (N=10), we elicited 69 disclosure designs and implemented four prototypes that visually disclose human-AI collaboration in journalism. We then ran a within-subjects lab study (N=32) to examine how disclosure visualizations (Textual, Role-based Timeline, Task-based Timeline, Chatbot) and collaboration ratios (Primarily Human vs. Primarily AI) influenced visualization perceptions, gaze patterns, and post-experience responses. We found that textual disclosures were least effective in communicating human-AI collaboration, whereas Chatbot offered the most in-depth information. Furthermore, while role-based timelines amplified AI contribution in primarily human articles, task-based timeline shifted perceptions toward human involvement in primarily AI articles. We contribute Human-AI collaboration disclosure visualizations and their evaluation, and cautionary considerations on how visualizations can alter perceptions of AI's actual role during news article creation.