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Explanations of recommendations

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RecSys '07: Proceedings of the 2007 ACM conference on Recommender systems

Pages 203 - 206

https://doi.org/10.1145/1297231.1297275

Published: 19 October 2007 Publication History

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This thesis focuses on explanations of recommendations. Explanations can have many advantages, from inspiring user trust to helping users make good decisions. We have identified seven different aims of explanations, and in this thesis we will consider how explanations can be optimized for some of these aims. We will consider both an explanation's content and its presentation. As a domain, we are currently investigating explanations for a movie recommender, and developing a prototype system. This paper summarizes the goals of the thesis, the methodology we are using, the work done so far and our intended future work.

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Explanations of recommendations
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. HCI design and evaluation methods
  2. Interaction design
    1. Interaction design process and methods
      1. User centered design

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RecSys '07: Proceedings of the 2007 ACM conference on Recommender systems

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ISBN:9781595937308

DOI:10.1145/1297231

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University of Minnesota, USA
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