Using latent features diversification to reduce choice difficulty in recommendation lists

CEUR Workshop Proceedings

Volumn 811, Issue , 2011, Pages 14-20

  Willemsen, Martijn C ^a   Knijnenburg, Bart P ^b   Graus, Mark P ^a   Velter Bremmers, Linda C M ^a   Eindhoven, Kai Fu ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b Ringgold Standard Institution Informatics   (United States)

Author keywords

Choice overload; Diversification; User centric evaluation

Indexed keywords

CHOICE OVERLOAD; DIVERSIFICATION; HIGH QUALITY; MATRIX FACTORIZATIONS; SIDE EFFECT; USER STUDY; USER-CENTRIC EVALUATIONS;

DECISION MAKING;

RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84867336766     PISSN: 16130073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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