Algorithmic affordances—interactive mechanisms that allow users to exercise tangible control over algorithms—play a crucial role in recommender systems. They can facilitate users’ sense of autonomy, transparency, and ultimately ownership over a recommender’s results, all qualities that are central to …

The Academic Research and Professional Practice in Interaction Design (ARPPID) working conference is a new forum to explore the existing and possible connections between academic research and industrial practices in interaction design. This first ARPPID appointment aims at providing a platform for theoretical …