CCRI: Planning: RecommendNews: Community Research Infrastructure for Online Field Experiments [research project]

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Funding agency

National Science Foundation (July 1, 2020 - June 30, 2021)

Investigators

Joseph Konstan (professor), Loren Terveen (professor)

Abstract

This planning grant will develop a shared vision and the partnerships required for an innovative research infrastructure that includes not only a computer system but also a community of users, for the development of new forms of recommender system applied to online news. There are three key broader impacts for this planning grant, and the subsequent infrastructure based on the plan. First, news recommendation has clear societal importance. Organizing the research community to support work on diversity, transparency, credibility, and effective news recommendation is a benefit not only for research, but for society. Second, the planned infrastructure has the potential to benefit not only the core research communities targeted, but also other research communities across the nation and around the world, including those in journalism and mass communication. Third, the planning process will engage a diverse set of researchers, including many from areas traditionally underserved, to extend the impact of this work as far as possible.

More information on agency website

CCRI: Planning: RecommendNews: Community Research Infrastructure for Online Field Experiments

Keywords

recommender systems, human-computer interaction, social computing