Being accurate is not enough: How accuracy metrics have hurt recommender systems

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1097-1101

  McNee, Sean M ^a   Riedl, John ^a   Konstan, Joseph A ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaborative filtering; Metrics; Personalization; Recommender systems

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE FILTERING; EXPERIMENTAL METHODOLOGY; LARGE INFORMATION SPACES; METRICS; PERSONALIZATIONS; STANDARD METRICS; USER-CENTRIC;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84869147060     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1125451.1125659     Document Type: Conference Paper

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