Prototypes of Bias Intervention Tools


Approach 1: Bias Visualisation Approach

SystemGuide
Visualisation 1 (V1)
System V1
  1. View prototype: System V1
  2. Type “coronavirus”.
  3. Type “coronavirus” and press enter/click to “coronavirus” from the autocomplete suggestions.
  4. Go to the “News” pages.
  5. Click on the bias meter of the first article.
  6. Hover on the icons with your mouse, and get a brief explanation of the particular bias.
  7. For more information, you can click on the icon and a full explanation will be opened in a new popup frame.
Visualisation 2 (V2)
System V2
  1. View prototype: System V2
  2. Type “coronavirus” and press enter/click to “coronavirus” from the autocomplete suggestions.
  3. Go to the “News” pages.
  4. Click on the “bias icon” on the first article to get a bar chart that represents the biases for this article.
  5. Hover on the bars with your mouse, and get an explanation of the particular bias.
Visualisation 3 (V3)
System V3
  1. View prototype: System V3
  2. Type “coronavirus” and press enter/click to “coronavirus” from the autocomplete suggestions.
  3. Hover on the news article and the system will inform you if there are aspects related to the topic that are not discussed in the article content.
Visualisation 4 (V4)
System V4
  1. View prototype: System V4
  2. Type “coronavirus” and press enter/click to “coronavirus” from the autocomplete suggestions.
  3. Go to the “News” pages.
  4. Some articles that contained bias information are omitted/hidden from the results.
  5. To reveal the article, you may click on the notification. Alternatively, you can click the "eye" icon at the top to reveal all hidden articles.

Approach 2: Results Reranking Approach

SystemGuide
Rerank 1 (R1)
System R1
  1. View prototype: System R1
  2. Type “coronavirus”.
  3. When the autocomplete opens, click on "I'm Feeling Unbiased". This feature will re-rank the results so that the most unbiased results are shown on top.
  4. Go to the “News” pages to see the results.
Rerank 2 (R2)
System R2
  1. View prototype: System R2
  2. Type “coronavirus” and press enter/click to “coronavirus” from the autocomplete suggestions.
  3. Go to the “News” pages.
  4. Click on the “question icon” and get more information about how this feature works.
  5. Click on the dropdown menu for “Country” and choose the country you want. The results will be modified based on your preference. (Only the "country" option is working in the prototype.)
Rerank 3 (R3)
System R3
  1. View prototype: System R3
  2. Type “coronavirus” and press enter/click to “coronavirus” from the autocomplete suggestions.
  3. Go to the “News” pages.
  4. Click on the “Customise my search” button.
  5. Click on the “question icon” and get more information about how this feature works.
  6. Click on the “question icon” next to each bias and get more information about a particular bias.
  7. Increase the “Political bias”, “Gender bias” and “Age bias” sliders and click OK to get your customised results.
Rerank 4 (R4)
System R4
  1. View prototype: System R4
  2. Type “vaccine covid 19” and press enter/click to “vaccine covid 19” from the autocomplete suggestions.
  3. Go to the “News” pages.
  4. This shows the re-ranked results which ensured that all the viewpoints are shown in the top results. E.g., "vaccine is remarkable" (result 1) and "vaccine is not enough to end the epidemic" (result 5, which is an opposite viewpoint).

Contact

If you have any questions, please contact Monica Paramita (m.paramita@sheffield.ac.uk) or Frank Hopfgartner (f.hopfgartners@sheffield.ac.uk).