Improving the user experience during cold start through choice-based preference elicitation.

M.P. Graus; M.C. Willemsen

doi:10.1145/2792838.2799681

Improving the user experience during cold start through choice-based preference elicitation.

M.P. Graus, M.C. Willemsen

Human Technology Interaction

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We studied an alternative choice-based interface for preference elicitation during the cold start phase and compared it directly with a standard rating-based interface. In this alternative interface users started from a diverse set covering all movies and iteratively narrowed down through a matrix factorization latent feature space to smaller sets of items based on their choices. The results show that compared to a rating-based interface, the choice-based interface requires less effort and results in more satisfying recommendations, showing that it might be a promising candidate for alleviating the cold start problem of new users.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, 16-20 September 2015, Vienna, Austria
Editors	H. Werthner, M. Zanker, J. Golbeck, G. Semeraro
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages	273-276
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-3692-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2792838.2799681
Publication status	Published - 2015
Event	9th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2015) - Vienna, Austria Duration: 16 Sept 2015 → 20 Sept 2015 Conference number: 9 https://recsys.acm.org/recsys15

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Conference	9th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2015)
Abbreviated title	RecSys 2015
Country/Territory	Austria
City	Vienna
Period	16/09/15 → 20/09/15
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Internet address	https://recsys.acm.org/recsys15

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Graus, M. P., & Willemsen, M. C. (2015). Improving the user experience during cold start through choice-based preference elicitation. In H. Werthner, M. Zanker, J. Golbeck, & G. Semeraro (Eds.), Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, 16-20 September 2015, Vienna, Austria (pp. 273-276). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/2792838.2799681

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Improving the user experience during cold start through choice-based preference elicitation. / Graus, M.P.; Willemsen, M.C.
Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, 16-20 September 2015, Vienna, Austria. ed. / H. Werthner; M. Zanker; J. Golbeck; G. Semeraro. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2015. p. 273-276.

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