Shaping the Information Nutrition Label

We take up on the idea of a nutrition facts label for online documents: the Information Nutrition Label. Such a label has the potential to increase the readers’ ability to make an informed decision before the “consumption” of a news article or some other published online document. The basic ideas along with the dimensions (manifest, measurable text qualities, etc.) of such a label were proposed in [FGG17]. The paper in hand focuses on the problem of an intuitive, unambiguous, and intelligible label presentation. For this purpose we (1) categorize the originally proposed information nutrition dimensions and (2) interpret them in terms of well-known physical quantities from which we belief that they are intuitively understandable for the general public. To give an impression of our ideas, a visual representation as well as the results of a preliminary crowd-sourcing study are presented.