MediaFutures Key Researcher Alain Starke is co-organizing a workshop on normative design and evaluation of recommender systems during the 17th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, RecSys ’23.
NORMalize sets out to provide a platform for researchers and practicioners from different domains to discuss challenges related to the normative design and evaluation of recommender systems.
In this workshop they examine the question whether news recommenders should provide sufficiently diverse recommendations. Should we strive to expose users to content that contradicts their political beliefs?
It is RecSys’ first Workshop on Normative Design and Evaluation of Recommender Systems and will take place on Tuesday September 19, 2023. Remote participation is possible.
Agenda:
The morning is an on-site, while the afternoon offers a hybrid format.
Morning session
09:00 – 09:10 Welcome & Introduction
09:10 – 10:30 Interactive workshop
10:30 – 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 – 12:35 Interactive workshop
12:35 – 14:00 Lunch break
Afternoon session
14:00 – 14:45 Keynote: Louisa Bartolo
14:50 – 15:00 Towards a Pragmatic Approach for studying Normative Recommender Systems: exploring Power Dynamics in Digital Platform Markets
15:00 – 15:10 Designing and Implementing Socially Beneficial Recommender Systems: An Interdisciplinary Approach
15:10 – 15:20 Digital Humanism and Norms in Recommender Systems 15:20 – 16:05 Coffee break
16:05 – 16:15 Improving and Evaluating the Detection of Fragmentation in News Recommendations with the Clustering of News Story Chains
16:15 – 16:25 Enabling Serendipitous News Discovery Experiences by Designing for Navigable Surprise
16:25 – 16:35 NPR: a News Portal Recommendations dataset
16:35 – 16:45 Value-Based Nudging in News Recommender Systems – Results From an Experimental User Study
16:45 – 16:55 Refining deliberative standards for online political communication: Introducing a summative approach to designing deliberative recommender systems
16:55 – 17:05 Classification of Normative Recommender Systems
17:05 – 17:35 Panel discussion & Closing
