Understanding choice overload in recommender systems

RecSys'10 - Proceedings of the 4th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 63-70

  Bollen, Dirk ^a   Knijnenburg, Bart P ^a   Willemsen, Martijn C ^a   Graus, Mark ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Design; Experimentation; Human factors; Measurement

Indexed keywords

ACQUISITION TIME; DATA SETS; EXPERIMENTATION; HIGH QUALITY; HUMAN FACTORS; INFORMATION SEARCH; MATRIX FACTORIZATIONS; PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH; RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS;

DESIGN; HUMAN ENGINEERING; USER INTERFACES;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 78649938758     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1864708.1864724     Document Type: Conference Paper

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