Introducing Empathy into Recommender Systems as a Tool for Promoting Social Cohesion

Alan Wecker; Tsvi Kuflik; Paul Mulholland; Belen Diaz-Agudo; Thomas Anthony Pedersen

Introducing Empathy into Recommender Systems as a Tool for Promoting Social Cohesion

Alan Wecker^*, Tsvi Kuflik, Paul Mulholland, Belen Diaz-Agudo, Thomas Anthony Pedersen

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Contemporary theories of social cohesion emphasize the importance of people accepting and appreciating differences across social groups. The SPICE project aims to promote social cohe-sion by researching and developing tools and methods to support citizen curation for groups at risk of exclusion. We define citizen curation as a process in which citizens can interpret cultural objects in order to build representations of their own social group. Other groups can then engage with those interpretations in order to appreciate their perspective. In this position paper we dis-cuss how research into empathy can be used to motivate the design of recommender systems that support people in looking beyond their own group and engaging constructively with alter-native perspectives.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Joint Proceedings of the ACM IUI 2021 Workshops, April 13-17, 2021, College Station, USA
Editors	Dorota Glowacka, Vinayak Krishnamurthy
Number of pages	6
Volume	2903
Publisher	CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Publication date	9 Jul 2021
ISBN (Electronic)	0074-2903-8
Publication status	Published - 9 Jul 2021
Event	26th ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces - College Station, United States Duration: 13 Apr 2021 → 17 Apr 2021 https://iui.acm.org/2021/

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Conference	26th ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces
Country/Territory	United States
City	College Station
Period	13/04/2021 → 17/04/2021
Internet address	https://iui.acm.org/2021/

Series	CEUR Workshop Proceedings
ISSN	1613-0073

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SPICE: Social cohesion, Participation, and Inclusion through Cultural Engagement
Bruni, L. E. (PI), Simeone, L. (Project Participant), Pedersen, T. A. (Project Participant) & Kadastik, N. (Project Participant)
01/05/2020 → 30/04/2023
Project: Research

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Wecker, A., Kuflik, T., Mulholland, P., Diaz-Agudo, B., & Pedersen, T. A. (2021). Introducing Empathy into Recommender Systems as a Tool for Promoting Social Cohesion. In D. Glowacka, & V. Krishnamurthy (Eds.), Joint Proceedings of the ACM IUI 2021 Workshops, April 13-17, 2021, College Station, USA (Vol. 2903). CEUR Workshop Proceedings. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2903/IUI21WS-SOCIALIZE-8.pdf

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Introducing Empathy into Recommender Systems as a Tool for Promoting Social Cohesion. / Wecker, Alan; Kuflik, Tsvi; Mulholland, Paul et al.
Joint Proceedings of the ACM IUI 2021 Workshops, April 13-17, 2021, College Station, USA. ed. / Dorota Glowacka; Vinayak Krishnamurthy. Vol. 2903 CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2021. (CEUR Workshop Proceedings).

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