Co-Authoring the Self: A Human-AI Interface for Interest Reflection in Recommenders
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2025
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| author | Sun, Ruixuan Wang, Junyuan Roy, Sanjali Konstan, Joseph A. |
| author_facet | Sun, Ruixuan Wang, Junyuan Roy, Sanjali Konstan, Joseph A. |
| contents | Natural language-based user profiles in recommender systems have been explored for their interpretability and potential to help users scrutinize and refine their interests, thereby improving recommendation quality. Building on this foundation, we introduce a human-AI collaborative profile for a movie recommender system that presents editable personalized interest summaries of a user's movie history. Unlike static profiles, this design invites users to directly inspect, modify, and reflect on the system's inferences. In an eight-week online field deployment with 1775 active movie recommender users, we find persistent gaps between user-perceived and system-inferred interests, show how the profile encourages engagement and reflection, and identify design directions for leveraging imperfect AI-powered user profiles to stimulate more user intervention and build more transparent and trustworthy recommender experiences. |
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| spellingShingle | Co-Authoring the Self: A Human-AI Interface for Interest Reflection in Recommenders Sun, Ruixuan Wang, Junyuan Roy, Sanjali Konstan, Joseph A. Human-Computer Interaction Artificial Intelligence Natural language-based user profiles in recommender systems have been explored for their interpretability and potential to help users scrutinize and refine their interests, thereby improving recommendation quality. Building on this foundation, we introduce a human-AI collaborative profile for a movie recommender system that presents editable personalized interest summaries of a user's movie history. Unlike static profiles, this design invites users to directly inspect, modify, and reflect on the system's inferences. In an eight-week online field deployment with 1775 active movie recommender users, we find persistent gaps between user-perceived and system-inferred interests, show how the profile encourages engagement and reflection, and identify design directions for leveraging imperfect AI-powered user profiles to stimulate more user intervention and build more transparent and trustworthy recommender experiences. |
| title | Co-Authoring the Self: A Human-AI Interface for Interest Reflection in Recommenders |
| topic | Human-Computer Interaction Artificial Intelligence |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08930 |