Exploring the landscape of recommender systems evaluation: Practices and perspectives

C Bauer, E Zangerle, A Said - ACM Transactions on Recommender …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Recommender systems research and practice are fast-develo** topics with growing
adoption in a wide variety of information access scenarios. In this article, we present an …

Understanding and predicting user satisfaction with conversational recommender systems

C Siro, M Aliannejadi, M De Rijke - ACM Transactions on Information …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
User satisfaction depicts the effectiveness of a system from the user's perspective.
Understanding and predicting user satisfaction is vital for the design of user-oriented …

Impacts of personal characteristics on user trust in conversational recommender systems

W Cai, Y **, L Chen - Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Conversational recommender systems (CRSs) imitate human advisors to assist users in
finding items through conversations and have recently gained increasing attention in …

“Listen to Music, Listen to Yourself”: Design of a Conversational Agent to Support Self-Awareness While Listening to Music

W Cai, Y **, X Zhao, L Chen - Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Music can affect the human brain and cognition. Melodies and lyrics that resonate with us
can awaken our inner feelings and thoughts; being in touch with these feelings and …

“I Think You Might Like This”: Exploring Effects of Confidence Signal Patterns on Trust in and Reliance on Conversational Recommender Systems

M Radensky, JA Séguin, JS Lim, K Olson… - Proceedings of the 2023 …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
With the rapid growth of large language models, conversational recommender systems
(CRSs) are on the rise. When receiving a CRS recommendation, one may encounter …

CRS-Que: A User-centric Evaluation Framework for Conversational Recommender Systems

Y **, L Chen, W Cai, X Zhao - ACM Transactions on Recommender …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
An increasing number of recommendation systems try to enhance the overall user
experience by incorporating conversational interaction. However, evaluating conversational …

Conversational recommendation: A grand AI challenge

D Jannach, L Chen - AI Magazine, 2022 - ojs.aaai.org
Animated avatars, which look and talk like humans, are iconic visions of the future of AI-
powered systems. Through many sci-fi movies, we are acquainted with the idea of speaking …

Concept--An Evaluation Protocol on Conversation Recommender Systems with System-and User-centric Factors

C Huang, P Qin, Y Deng, W Lei, J Lv… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The conversational recommendation system (CRS) has been criticized regarding its user
experience in real-world scenarios, despite recent significant progress achieved in …

User Perception of Fairness-Calibrated Recommendations

G Alves, D Jannach, R Ferrari De Souza… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
The research community has become increasingly aware of possible undesired effects of
algorithmic biases in recommender systems. One common bias in such systems is to over …

Key Principles Pertinent to User Experience Design for Conversational User Interfaces: A Conceptual Learning Model

A Rossouw, H Smuts - International Conference on Innovative …, 2023 - Springer
The evolution of digital technologies enables a pervasive or ubiquitous computing
environment in which the processing of information is linked with how we engage in society …