Making decisions about privacy: Information disclosure in context-aware recommender systems

ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Knijnenburg, Bart P ^a   Kobsa, Alfred ^a  

^a 5226 Donald Bren Hall   (United States)

Author keywords

Design; Experimentation; Human Factors; Measurement; Theory

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; DESIGN; DIGITAL STORAGE; HUMAN ENGINEERING; MEASUREMENT;

COGNITIVE PROCESS; CONTEXT-AWARE RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS; EXPERIMENTATION; INFORMATION DISCLOSURE; ON-LINE EXPERIMENTS; PERSONAL INFORMATION; THEORY; UNIFIED APPROACH;

RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84983590151     PISSN: 21606455     EISSN: 21606463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2499670     Document Type: Article

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