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A Computational Framework for Media Bias Mitigation
Bias in the news media is an inherent flaw of the news production process. The bias often causes a sharp increase in political polarization and in the cost of conflict on social issues such as the Iraq war. This article presents NewsCube, a novel ...
Influencing Individually: Fusing Personalization and Persuasion
Personalized technologies aim to enhance user experience by taking into account users’ interests, preferences, and other relevant information. Persuasive technologies aim to modify user attitudes, intentions, or behavior through computer-human dialogue ...
Adaptive Persuasive Systems: A Study of Tailored Persuasive Text Messages to Reduce Snacking
This article describes the use of personalized short text messages (SMS) to reduce snacking. First, we describe the development and validation (N = 215) of a questionnaire to measure individual susceptibility to different social influence strategies. To ...
Investigating the Persuasion Potential of Recommender Systems from a Quality Perspective: An Empirical Study
Recommender Systems (RSs) help users search large amounts of digital contents and services by allowing them to identify the items that are likely to be more attractive or useful. RSs play an important persuasion role, as they can potentially augment the ...
System Personality and Persuasion in Human-Computer Dialogue
The human-computer dialogue research field has been studying interaction with computers since the early stage of Artificial Intelligence, however, research has often focused on very practical tasks to be completed with the dialogues. A new trend in the ...