"Serving Each User": Supporting different eating goals through a multi-list recommender interface

Alain Starke, Edis Asotic, Christoph Trattner

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Abstract

Food recommender systems optimize towards a user's current preferences. However, appetites may vary, in the sense that users might seek healthy recipes today and look for unhealthy meals tomorrow. In this paper, we propose a novel approach in the food domain to diversify recommendations across different lists to 'serve' different users goals, compiled in a multi-list food recommender interface. We evaluated our interface in a 2 (single list vs multiple lists) x 2 (without or with explanations) between-subject user study (N = 366), linking choice behavior and evaluation aspects through the user experience framework. Our multi-list interface was evaluated more favorably than a single-list interface, in terms of diversity and choice satisfaction. Moreover, it triggered changes in food choices, even though these choices were less healthy than those made in the single-list interface.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationRecSys 2021 - 15th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc.
Pages124-132
Number of pages9
ISBN (Electronic)978-1-4503-8458-2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Sept 2021
Externally publishedYes
Event15th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, RecSys 2021 - Virtual, Online Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Duration: 27 Sept 20211 Oct 2021
Conference number: 15
https://recsys.acm.org/recsys21/

Conference

Conference15th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, RecSys 2021
Abbreviated titleRecSys 2021
Country/TerritoryNetherlands
CityAmsterdam
Period27/09/211/10/21
Internet address

Funding

This work was supported by the Research Council of Norway with funding to MediaFutures: Research Centre for Responsible Media Technology and Innovation, through the Centre for Research-based Innovation scheme, project number 309339.

Keywords

  • Food
  • Goals
  • Health
  • Nudges
  • Recommender Systems
  • User Experience

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