Increasing engagement through early recommender intervention

RecSys'09 - Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Conference on Recommender Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 85-92

  Freyne, Jill ^a   Jacovi, Michal ^b   Guy, Ido ^b   Geyer, Werner ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b IBM HAIFA RESEARCH LAB   (Israel)

^c IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Adoption; Community; Participation; Recommender systems; Social networking; Social software; Web 2.0

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION; RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING; SOCIAL SOFTWARE; WEB 2.0;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; FILE EDITORS;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 72249123371     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1639714.1639730     Document Type: Conference Paper

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