Welcome to Informfully (GitHub & Website)! Informfully is an open-source reproducibility platform for content distribution and user experiments.
To view the full documentation, please visit Informfully at Read the Docs. It is the combined documentation for all code repositories.
Links and Resources: GitHub | Website | X | Documentation | DDIS@UZH | Google Play | App Store
The documentation in this repository is the source for the online Informfully Documentation. It can be downloaded for offline use. Otherwise, please use the online version instead.
# Download the documentation
git clone https://github.com/Informfully/Documentation.git| Title | Venue |
|---|---|
| Diverse News Recommendations | FOJ '21 |
| Algorithmic Content Curation | ICA '22 |
| Deliberateive Diversity for News Recommendations | RecSys '23 |
| Classification of Recommender Systems | NORMalize '23 |
| Policital News Recommendations | ICA '23 |
| Informfully Platform | RecSys '24 |
| Diversity in News Recommendations | RecSys '24 |
| Nudging News Engagement | ICA '24 |
| Informfully Dataset | NORMalize '24 |
| Beyond-Accuracy Objectives for AI in News | AMLD '25 |
| Informfully Recommenders | RecSys '25 |
| Diversity-Driven Random Walks (D-RDW) | RecSys '25 |
| Nudges for News Recommenders | NORMalize '25 |
If you use any code or data from this repository in a scientific publication, we ask you to cite the following papers:
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Informfully - Research Platform for Reproducible User Studies, Heitz et al., Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, 2024.
@inproceedings{heitz2024informfully, title={Informfully - Research Platform for Reproducible User Studies}, author={Heitz, Lucien and Croci, Julian A and Sachdeva, Madhav and Bernstein, Abraham}, booktitle={Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems}, pages={660--669}, year={2024} } -
Deliberative Diversity for News Recommendations - Operationalization and Experimental User Study, Heitz et al., Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, 813–819, 2023.
@inproceedings{heitz2023deliberative, title={Deliberative Diversity for News Recommendations: Operationalization and Experimental User Study}, author={Heitz, Lucien and Lischka, Juliane A and Abdullah, Rana and Laugwitz, Laura and Meyer, Hendrik and Bernstein, Abraham}, booktitle={Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems}, pages={813--819}, year={2023} }
You are welcome to contribute to the Informfully ecosystem and become a part of our community. Feel free to:
- Fork any of the Informfully repositories.
- Suggest new features in Future Release.
- Make changes and create pull requests.
Please post your feature requests and bug reports in our GitHub issues section.
Released under the MIT License. (Please note that the respective copyright licenses of third-party libraries and dependencies apply.)

