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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 26, 2023
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Joseph Anthony Russo, Westford, MA (US);
Jennifer Anne Janechek, North Liberty, IA (US);
Jill Sherman, Northfield, IL (US);
Jonathan Ralph, Rosemount, MN (US);
Christopher P Wilczak, Chicago, IL (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A recommender system and method to facilitate non-biasing search queries, social media feeds, and other platforms in which a user searches, scrolls, and engages with information and ideas so that a user can explore ideas outside of, or even contrary to, the ones with which they are aligned. Through a computer-implemented 'curiosity halo' recommendation engine and method, users are made aware of the existence of other notions centered around or connected to a topic. The users could also engage to be directed to adjacent notions and “lines of flight” around the topic, thereby broadening their perspective and strengthening their ability to think “outside the box”—or bubble. By adjusting a threshold based on curiosity level and tolerance for divergent thinking, the boundaries of the curiosity halo are continually redrawn in real time so that users can dynamically uncover topics and ideas outside of their day-to-day experience.