Balancing Domestic and Global Perspectives: Evaluating Dual-Calibration and LLM-Generated Nudges for Diverse News Recommendation
In this study, we applied the ``personalized diversity nudge framework'' with the goal of expanding user reading coverage in terms of news locality (i.e., domestic and world news). We designed a novel topic-locality dual calibration algorithmic nudge and a large language model-based news personalization presentation nudge, then launched a 5-week real-user study with 120 U.S. news readers on the news recommendation experiment platform POPROX. With user interaction logs and survey responses, we found that algorithmic nudges can successfully increase exposure and consumption diversity, while the impact of LLM-based presentation nudges varied. User-level topic interest is a strong predictor o...
| Authors | Ruixuan Sun, Matthew Zent, Minzhu Zhao et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.IR |
| Published | 6 March 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 6 March 2026 |
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