Why am I seeing this: Democratizing End User Auditing for Online Content Recommendations
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| author | Chen, Chaoran Li, Leyang Cao, Luke Ye, Yanfang Li, Tianshi Yao, Yaxing Li, Toby Jia-jun |
| author_facet | Chen, Chaoran Li, Leyang Cao, Luke Ye, Yanfang Li, Tianshi Yao, Yaxing Li, Toby Jia-jun |
| contents | Personalized recommendation systems tailor content based on user attributes, which are either provided or inferred from private data. Research suggests that users often hypothesize about reasons behind contents they encounter (e.g., "I see this jewelry ad because I am a woman"), but they lack the means to confirm these hypotheses due to the opaqueness of these systems. This hinders informed decision-making about privacy and system use and contributes to the lack of algorithmic accountability. To address these challenges, we introduce a new interactive sandbox approach. This approach creates sets of synthetic user personas and corresponding personal data that embody realistic variations in personal attributes, allowing users to test their hypotheses by observing how a website's algorithms respond to these personas. We tested the sandbox in the context of targeted advertisement. Our user study demonstrates its usability, usefulness, and effectiveness in empowering end-user auditing in a case study of targeting ads. |
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| spellingShingle | Why am I seeing this: Democratizing End User Auditing for Online Content Recommendations Chen, Chaoran Li, Leyang Cao, Luke Ye, Yanfang Li, Tianshi Yao, Yaxing Li, Toby Jia-jun Human-Computer Interaction Personalized recommendation systems tailor content based on user attributes, which are either provided or inferred from private data. Research suggests that users often hypothesize about reasons behind contents they encounter (e.g., "I see this jewelry ad because I am a woman"), but they lack the means to confirm these hypotheses due to the opaqueness of these systems. This hinders informed decision-making about privacy and system use and contributes to the lack of algorithmic accountability. To address these challenges, we introduce a new interactive sandbox approach. This approach creates sets of synthetic user personas and corresponding personal data that embody realistic variations in personal attributes, allowing users to test their hypotheses by observing how a website's algorithms respond to these personas. We tested the sandbox in the context of targeted advertisement. Our user study demonstrates its usability, usefulness, and effectiveness in empowering end-user auditing in a case study of targeting ads. |
| title | Why am I seeing this: Democratizing End User Auditing for Online Content Recommendations |
| topic | Human-Computer Interaction |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.04917 |