Interacting with recommenders—overview and research directions

M Jugovac, D Jannach - ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Automated recommendations have become a ubiquitous part of today's online user
experience. These systems point us to additional items to purchase in online shops, they …

User simulation for evaluating information access systems

K Balog, CX Zhai - Proceedings of the Annual International ACM SIGIR …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
With the emergence of various information access systems exhibiting increasing complexity,
there is a critical need for sound and scalable means of automatic evaluation. To address …

Exploring the filter bubble: the effect of using recommender systems on content diversity

TT Nguyen, PM Hui, FM Harper, L Terveen… - Proceedings of the 23rd …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
Eli Pariser coined the term'filter bubble'to describe the potential for online personalization to
effectively isolate people from a diversity of viewpoints or content. Online recommender …

Explaining recommendations: Design and evaluation

N Tintarev, J Masthoff - Recommender systems handbook, 2015 - Springer
In recent years, there has been an increased interest in more user-centered evaluation
metrics for recommender systems such as those mentioned in [49]. It has also been …

Personalized explanations for hybrid recommender systems

P Kouki, J Schaffer, J Pujara, J O'Donovan… - Proceedings of the 24th …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Recommender systems have become pervasive on the web, shaping the way users see
information and thus the decisions they make. As these systems get more complex, there is …

Evaluating recommender systems

A Gunawardana, G Shani, S Yogev - Recommender systems handbook, 2012 - Springer
Recommender systems are now popular both commercially and in the research community,
where many approaches have been suggested for providing recommendations. In many …

Comparative recommender system evaluation: benchmarking recommendation frameworks

A Said, A Bellogín - Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
Recommender systems research is often based on comparisons of predictive accuracy: the
better the evaluation scores, the better the recommender. However, it is difficult to compare …

Evaluating recommender systems with user experiments

BP Knijnenburg, MC Willemsen - Recommender systems handbook, 2015 - Springer
Traditionally, the field of recommender systems has evaluated the fruits of its labor using
metrics of algorithmic accuracy and precision (see Chap. 8 for an overview of recommender …

Human decision making and recommender systems

A Jameson, MC Willemsen, A Felfernig… - Recommender systems …, 2015 - Springer
If we assume that an important function of recommender systems is to help people make
better choices, it follows that people who design and study recommender systems ought to …

Modeling users' heterogeneous taste with diversified attentive user profiles

O Barkan, T Shaked, Y Fuchs, N Koenigstein - User Modeling and User …, 2024 - Springer
Two important challenges in recommender systems are modeling users with heterogeneous
taste and providing explainable recommendations. In order to improve our understanding of …