Understanding and controlling the filter bubble through interactive visualization: A user study

HT 2014 - Proceedings of the 25th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 107-115

  Nagulendra, Sayooran ^a   Vassileva, Julita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

design; experimentation; human factors; online social networks; recommender systems; visualization

Indexed keywords

DATA VISUALIZATION; DESIGN; FLOW VISUALIZATION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS; INFORMATION FILTERING; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PEER TO PEER NETWORKS; RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS; VISUALIZATION;

EXPERIMENTATION; FILTERING MECHANISM; INFORMATION OVERLOADS; INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATIONS; ON-LINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; PERSONALIZATION MECHANISMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES; UNDERSTANDABILITY;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84907381740     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2631775.2631811     Document Type: Conference Paper

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