User perception of differences in recommender algorithms

RecSys 2014 - Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 161-168

  Ekstrand, Michael D ^a,b   Harper, F Maxwell ^b   Willemsen, Martijn C ^c   Konstan, Joseph A ^b  

^a Texas State University   (United States)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Recommender systems; User study

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE FILTERING;

COLLABORATIVE FILTERING ALGORITHMS; COMPARISON STUDY; OBJECTIVE MEASURE; PERSONALIZATIONS; RECOMMENDER ALGORITHMS; SUBJECTIVE PERCEPTIONS; USER EVALUATIONS; USER STUDY;

RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84908878885     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2645710.2645737     Document Type: Conference Paper

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