Title
Making the news interesting: Understanding the relationship between familiarity and interest
Author
van der Sluis, F.
Glassey, R.J.
van den Broek, E.L.
Publication year
2012
Abstract
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.
Subject
Communication & Information
MNS - Media & Network Services
TS - Technical Sciences
Future Internet Use
Information Society
Familiarity
Filtering and recommender systems
Information feeds
Interest
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1145/2362724.236278
TNO identifier
465224
Source
4th Information Interaction in Context Symposium, IIiX 2012: Behaviors, Interactions, Interfaces, Systems, 21-24 August 2012, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 314-317
Document type
conference paper