Making the news interesting: understanding the relationship between familiarity and interest

Frans van der Sluis; Richard J. Glassey; Egon van den Broek

doi:10.1145/2362724.2362783

Making the news interesting: understanding the relationship between familiarity and interest

Frans van der Sluis
, Richard J. Glassey
, Egon van den Broek

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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.

Original language	Undefined
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 4th Information Interaction in Context Symposium (IIIX 2012)
Editors	J. Kamps, W. Kraaij, N. Fuhr
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	314-317
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-1282-0
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2362724.2362783
Publication status	Published - Aug 2012
Event	4th Information Interaction in Context Symposium, IIIX 2012 - Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Nijmegen, Netherlands Duration: 21 Aug 2012 → 24 Aug 2012 Conference number: 4 http://www.cs.ru.nl/iiix2012/wordpress/

Publication series

Name
Publisher	ACM

Conference

Conference	4th Information Interaction in Context Symposium, IIIX 2012
Abbreviated title	IIiX 2012
Country/Territory	Netherlands
City	Nijmegen
Period	21/08/12 → 24/08/12
Other	21-24 August 2012
Internet address	http://www.cs.ru.nl/iiix2012/wordpress/

Keywords

METIS-293291
EWI-22834
CR-H.3.3
CR-H.1.2
Filtering and Recommender Systems
Information Feeds
Interest
Familiarity
IR-83483

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van der Sluis, F., Glassey, R. J., & van den Broek, E. (2012). Making the news interesting: understanding the relationship between familiarity and interest. In J. Kamps, W. Kraaij, & N. Fuhr (Eds.), Proceedings of the 4th Information Interaction in Context Symposium (IIIX 2012) (pp. 314-317). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2362724.2362783

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van der Sluis, F, Glassey, RJ & van den Broek, E 2012, Making the news interesting: understanding the relationship between familiarity and interest. in J Kamps, W Kraaij & N Fuhr (eds), Proceedings of the 4th Information Interaction in Context Symposium (IIIX 2012). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, pp. 314-317, 4th Information Interaction in Context Symposium, IIIX 2012, Nijmegen, Netherlands, 21/08/12. https://doi.org/10.1145/2362724.2362783

Making the news interesting: understanding the relationship between familiarity and interest. / van der Sluis, Frans; Glassey, Richard J.; van den Broek, Egon.
Proceedings of the 4th Information Interaction in Context Symposium (IIIX 2012). ed. / J. Kamps; W. Kraaij; N. Fuhr. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, 2012. p. 314-317.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

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