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Facilitating natural flow of information among "taste-based" groups

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Todorka Alexandrova,

Satoshi Hirade,

Tatsuo NakajimaAuthors Info & Claims

CHI EA '13: CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 871 - 876

https://doi.org/10.1145/2468356.2468512

Published: 27 April 2013 Publication History

Abstract

Social science studies have shown that the disconnection of people from different social classes or opinion groups may reinforce serious problems to our society (e.g., residential segregation, group polarization, or confirmation bias). With the emerging trend of the Web 2.0, however, different kinds of people are likely having less chance to share information with each other. How to design for supporting better information flow among different social, taste, or opinion groups of people becomes a challenging question for digital designers. In this work-in-progress paper we present our on-going research of exploring a crowd-based system for facilitating natural information flow among different types of people. We conducted a Wizard-of-OZ study to simulate push-based human powered recommendation, and learn how participants react when receiving unexpected information. Based on the findings, we designed and implemented a web application for encouraging different kinds of people to exchange information in a peer-to-peer way. Next steps include designing pairing strategy and conducting user study.

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3640457.3688017
Cheshmehzangi ACheshmehzangi A(2022)ICT for the Free Flow of Information in Cities: Combatting the Digital Divide and Promoting Information Exchange in Digital EconomyICT, Cities, and Reaching Positive Peace10.1007/978-981-19-3167-3_5(93-116)Online publication date: 19-Jul-2022
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-3167-3_5
Gushima KAkasaki HNakajima T(2018)A Novel Interaction Design Approach for Accessing Daily Casual Information Through a Virtual CreatureDistributed, Ambient and Pervasive Interactions: Understanding Humans10.1007/978-3-319-91125-0_4(56-70)Online publication date: 15-Jul-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-319-91125-0_4

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Facilitating natural flow of information among "taste-based" groups
1. Human-centered computing
2. Information systems
  1. Information retrieval

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Binst B(2024)How to Evaluate Serendipity in Recommender Systems: the Need for a SerendiptionnaireProceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems10.1145/3640457.3688017(1335-1341)Online publication date: 8-Oct-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3640457.3688017
Cheshmehzangi ACheshmehzangi A(2022)ICT for the Free Flow of Information in Cities: Combatting the Digital Divide and Promoting Information Exchange in Digital EconomyICT, Cities, and Reaching Positive Peace10.1007/978-981-19-3167-3_5(93-116)Online publication date: 19-Jul-2022
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-3167-3_5
Gushima KAkasaki HNakajima T(2018)A Novel Interaction Design Approach for Accessing Daily Casual Information Through a Virtual CreatureDistributed, Ambient and Pervasive Interactions: Understanding Humans10.1007/978-3-319-91125-0_4(56-70)Online publication date: 15-Jul-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-319-91125-0_4

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