arXiv:2607.15284cs.IRcs.AI2026-07被引 6

让用户掌控推荐系统,能打破信息茧房但效果因人而异

How Does Empowering Users with Greater System Control Affect News Filter Bubbles?

论文配图:How Does Empowering Users with Greater System Control Affect News Filter Bubbles?
图 1 · 摘自论文原文
  • 通过透明界面展示系统推断的政治与话题兴趣,让用户可调节推荐
  • 多数用户减少极端内容,部分用户反而趋向更极端立场
  • 提升意识但牺牲政治多样性,适合关注认知偏见的读者

推荐系统虽帮助用户发现感兴趣的文章,但也可能因持续推送强化已有信念的内容而制造‘信息茧房’。用户常未意识到自己身处其中,即便知晓也缺乏直接控制权。为此,我们设计了一个增强型政治新闻推荐系统,其界面能显式呈现系统根据用户行为推断出的政治立场与话题兴趣,并允许用户主动调整推荐偏好以获取更多特定主题或立场的文章。我们开展用户研究,对比该系统与传统界面的效果,发现透明化设计显著提升了用户对自身处于信息茧房的认知。同时,大多数用户在调整后减少了极端内容的接收,但也有部分用户选择推向更极端;尽管许多用户从极左/极右转向中间立场,却导致所展示文章的政治多样性下降。结果表明,该系统虽增强了用户觉察力,但对新闻消费的影响具有显著个体差异。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

While recommendation systems enable users to find articles of interest, they can also create ``filter bubbles'' by presenting content that reinforces users' pre-existing beliefs. Users are often unaware that the system placed them in a filter bubble and, even when aware, they often lack direct control over it. To address these issues, we first design a political news recommendation system augmented with an enhanced interface that exposes the political and topical interests the system inferred from user behavior. This allows the user to adjust the recommendation system to receive more articles on a particular topic or presenting a particular political stance. We then conduct a user study to compare our system to a traditional interface and found that the transparent approach helped users realize that they were in a filter bubble. Additionally, the enhanced system led to less extreme news for most users but also allowed others to move the system to more extremes. Similarly, while many users moved the system from extreme liberal/conservative to the center, this came at the expense of reducing political diversity of the articles shown. These findings suggest that, while the proposed system increased awareness of the filter bubbles, it had heterogeneous effects on news consumption depending on user preferences.

信息茧房推荐系统用户控制政治极化

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