Workshop on technologies to support critical thinking in an age of misinformation

Tilman Dingler; Benjamin Tag; Philipp Lorenz-Spreen; Andrew W. Vargo; Simon Knight; Stephan Lewandowsky

doi:10.1145/3411763.3441350

Workshop on technologies to support critical thinking in an age of misinformation

Tilman Dingler
, Benjamin Tag
, Philipp Lorenz-Spreen
, Andrew W. Vargo
, Simon Knight
, Stephan Lewandowsky

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Other

15 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

Serious concerns have been raised about social media's and online news outlets' contribution to a pandemic of misinformation. The sheer volume and tendency of misinformation to exploit people's cognitive biases have eroded the public's trust in media outlets, governmental institutions, and the democratic process. With Human-Computer Interaction being at the forefront of designing and developing user-facing computing systems, we bear special opportunities to address these issues and work on solutions to mitigate problems arising from misinformation. This workshop brings together designers, developers, and thinkers across disciplines to redefine computing systems by focusing on technologies and applications that instil and nurture critical thinking in their users. By focusing on the problem of misinformation and users' cognitive security, this workshop will sketch out blueprints for systems and interfaces that contribute to advancing technology and media literacy, building critical thinking skills, and helping users telling fake from truth.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Editors	Katherine Isbister, Takeo Igarashi
Place of Publication	New York NY USA
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450380959
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3411763.3441350
Publication status	Published - May 2021
Externally published	Yes
Event	International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2021: Making Waves, Combining Strengths - Online, Yokohama, Japan Duration: 8 May 2021 → 13 May 2021 Conference number: 39th https://dl.acm.org/doi/book/10.1145/3411763 (Proceedings) https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3411764 (Proceedings)

Conference

Conference	International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2021
Abbreviated title	CHI 2021
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Yokohama
Period	8/05/21 → 13/05/21
Internet address	https://dl.acm.org/doi/book/10.1145/3411763 (Proceedings) https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3411764 (Proceedings)

Keywords

Cognitive biases
Human-Computer Interaction
Misinformation

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Dingler, T., Tag, B., Lorenz-Spreen, P., Vargo, A. W., Knight, S., & Lewandowsky, S. (2021). Workshop on technologies to support critical thinking in an age of misinformation. In K. Isbister, & T. Igarashi (Eds.), Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/3411763.3441350

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Dingler, T, Tag, B, Lorenz-Spreen, P, Vargo, AW, Knight, S & Lewandowsky, S 2021, Workshop on technologies to support critical thinking in an age of misinformation. in K Isbister & T Igarashi (eds), Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York NY USA, International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2021, Yokohama, Japan, 8/05/21. https://doi.org/10.1145/3411763.3441350

Workshop on technologies to support critical thinking in an age of misinformation. / Dingler, Tilman; Tag, Benjamin; Lorenz-Spreen, Philipp et al.
Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ed. / Katherine Isbister; Takeo Igarashi. New York NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2021.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Other

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