Social Media Feed Elicitation
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| author | Popowski, Lindsay Wu, Xiyuan Zhu, Charlotte Piccardi, Tiziano Bernstein, Michael S. |
| author_facet | Popowski, Lindsay Wu, Xiyuan Zhu, Charlotte Piccardi, Tiziano Bernstein, Michael S. |
| contents | Social media users have repeatedly advocated for control over the currently opaque operations of feed algorithms. Large language models (LLMs) now offer the promise of custom-defined feeds--but users often fail to foresee the gaps and edge cases in how they define their custom feed. We introduce feed elicitation interviews, an interactive method that guides users through identifying these gaps and articulating their preferences to better author custom social media feeds. We deploy this approach in an online study to create custom BlueSky feeds and find that participants significantly prefer the feeds produced from their elicited preferences to those produced by users manually describing their feeds. Through feed elicitation interviews, we advance users' ability to control their social media experience, empowering them to describe and implement their desired feeds. |
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| spellingShingle | Social Media Feed Elicitation Popowski, Lindsay Wu, Xiyuan Zhu, Charlotte Piccardi, Tiziano Bernstein, Michael S. Human-Computer Interaction Social media users have repeatedly advocated for control over the currently opaque operations of feed algorithms. Large language models (LLMs) now offer the promise of custom-defined feeds--but users often fail to foresee the gaps and edge cases in how they define their custom feed. We introduce feed elicitation interviews, an interactive method that guides users through identifying these gaps and articulating their preferences to better author custom social media feeds. We deploy this approach in an online study to create custom BlueSky feeds and find that participants significantly prefer the feeds produced from their elicited preferences to those produced by users manually describing their feeds. Through feed elicitation interviews, we advance users' ability to control their social media experience, empowering them to describe and implement their desired feeds. |
| title | Social Media Feed Elicitation |
| topic | Human-Computer Interaction |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.18594 |