TY - GEN
T1 - News Informatics
T2 - 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2022
AU - Sundar, S. Shyam
AU - Jia, Haiyan
AU - Bellur, Saraswathi
AU - Oh, Jeeyun
AU - Kim, Hyang Sook
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2022/4/29
Y1 - 2022/4/29
N2 - This paper introduces the concept of "news informatics"to refer to journalistic presentation of big data in online sites. For users to be engaged with such data-driven public information, it is important to incorporate interactive tools so that each person can extract personally relevant information. Drawing upon a communication model of interactivity, we designed a data-rich site with three different types of interactive features - namely, modality interactivity, message interactivity, and source interactivity - and empirically tested their relative and combined effects on user engagement and user experience with a 2 (modality) × 3 (source) × 2 (message) field experiment (N =166). Findings shed light on how interface designers, online news editors and journalists can maximize user engagement with data-rich news content. Certain interactivity combinations are found to be better than others, with a structural equation model (SEM) revealing the underlying theoretical mechanisms and providing implications for the design of news informatics.
AB - This paper introduces the concept of "news informatics"to refer to journalistic presentation of big data in online sites. For users to be engaged with such data-driven public information, it is important to incorporate interactive tools so that each person can extract personally relevant information. Drawing upon a communication model of interactivity, we designed a data-rich site with three different types of interactive features - namely, modality interactivity, message interactivity, and source interactivity - and empirically tested their relative and combined effects on user engagement and user experience with a 2 (modality) × 3 (source) × 2 (message) field experiment (N =166). Findings shed light on how interface designers, online news editors and journalists can maximize user engagement with data-rich news content. Certain interactivity combinations are found to be better than others, with a structural equation model (SEM) revealing the underlying theoretical mechanisms and providing implications for the design of news informatics.
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U2 - 10.1145/3491102.3502207
DO - 10.1145/3491102.3502207
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85130565561
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
BT - CHI 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 30 April 2022 through 5 May 2022
ER -