Users' reading habits in online news portals

Esiyok, C., Kille, B., Jain, B. J., Hopfgartner, F. and Albayrak, S. (2014) Users' reading habits in online news portals. In: IIiX 2014 : Fifth Information Interaction in Context Symposium, Regensburg, Germany, 26-29 Aug 2014, pp. 263-266. ISBN 9781450329767 (doi: 10.1145/2637002.2637038)

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Abstract

The aim of this study is to survey reading habits of users of an online news portal. The assumption motivating this study is that insight into the reading habits of users can be helpful to design better news recommendation systems. We estimated the transition probabilities that users who read an article of one news category will move to read an article of another (not necessarily distinct) news category. For this, we analyzed the users' click behavior within plista data set. Key findings are the popularity of category local, loyalty of readers to the same category, observing similar results when addressing enforced click streams, and the case that click behavior is highly influenced by the news category.

Item Type:Conference Proceedings
Status:Published
Refereed:Yes
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:Hopfgartner, Dr Frank
Authors: Esiyok, C., Kille, B., Jain, B. J., Hopfgartner, F., and Albayrak, S.
College/School:College of Arts & Humanities > School of Humanities > Information Studies
Publisher:ACM
ISBN:9781450329767
Copyright Holders:Copyright © 2014 ACM
Publisher Policy:Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher

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