Making the news interesting: Understanding the relationship between familiarity and interest
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Making the news interesting: Understanding the relationship between familiarity and interest. / Van Der Sluis, F.; Glassey, R.J.; Van Den Broek, E.L.
IIiX 2012 - Proceedings 4th Information Interaction in Context Symposium: Behaviors, Interactions, Interfaces, Systems. 2012. p. 314-317 (IIiX 2012 - Proceedings 4th Information Interaction in Context Symposium: Behaviors, Interactions, Interfaces, Systems).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Making the news interesting: Understanding the relationship between familiarity and interest
AU - Van Der Sluis, F.
AU - Glassey, R.J.
AU - Van Den Broek, E.L.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - News feeds are an important element of information encountering, feeding our (new) interests but also leading to a state of information overload. Current solutions often select information similar to the user's interests. However, long-term interest in one topic, and being highly familiar with that topic, does not necessarily imply an actual interest response will occur when more of the same topic is selected. This study explores how important familiarity is in predicting an interest response. In a study with 30 subjects, interest was manipulated by topical familiarity using novel stimuli from a popular news source. This study shows, within this context, familiarity is moderately important for an interest response: familiarity does indeed make the news interesting, but only to a certain extent. The results set a baseline for predicting interest during information encountering, indicating familiarity is important, but not the only influential variable a system should consider when selecting information for users. Copyright © 2012 ACM.
AB - News feeds are an important element of information encountering, feeding our (new) interests but also leading to a state of information overload. Current solutions often select information similar to the user's interests. However, long-term interest in one topic, and being highly familiar with that topic, does not necessarily imply an actual interest response will occur when more of the same topic is selected. This study explores how important familiarity is in predicting an interest response. In a study with 30 subjects, interest was manipulated by topical familiarity using novel stimuli from a popular news source. This study shows, within this context, familiarity is moderately important for an interest response: familiarity does indeed make the news interesting, but only to a certain extent. The results set a baseline for predicting interest during information encountering, indicating familiarity is important, but not the only influential variable a system should consider when selecting information for users. Copyright © 2012 ACM.
KW - Familiarity
KW - Filtering and recommender systems
KW - Information feeds
KW - Interest
UR - http://www.mendeley.com/research/making-news-interesting-understanding-relationship-between-familiarity-interest
U2 - 10.1145/2362724.2362783
DO - 10.1145/2362724.2362783
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 9781450312820
T3 - IIiX 2012 - Proceedings 4th Information Interaction in Context Symposium: Behaviors, Interactions, Interfaces, Systems
SP - 314
EP - 317
BT - IIiX 2012 - Proceedings 4th Information Interaction in Context Symposium: Behaviors, Interactions, Interfaces, Systems
ER -
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