Recommender systems provide personalized information access to users of Internet
services from social networks to e-commerce to media and entertainment. As is appropriate …

Engaging users is a priority for designers of products and services of every kind. The need to
understand users' experiences has motivated a focus on user engagement across computer …

Recommender systems are an important part of the information and e-commerce ecosystem.
They represent a powerful method for enabling users to filter through large information and …

Recently the world of the web has become more social and more real-time. Facebook and
Twitter are perhaps the exemplars of a new generation of social, real-time web services and …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the social media marketing activities of
luxury brands, guided by uses and gratifications theory (UGT). It examines the gratifications …

We study personalized item recommendation within an enterprise social media application
suite that includes blogs, bookmarks, communities, wikis, and shared files …

Despite rapid adoption of social media as a means of music listening, little is known about
users' motivations. This study applies the uses and gratifications approach to users' …

The goal of this tutorial is to expose participants to the current research on social
recommender systems (ie, recommender systems for the social web). Participants will …

Traditionally, the field of recommender systems has evaluated the fruits of its labor using
metrics of algorithmic accuracy and precision (see Chap. 8 for an overview of recommender …

There exist situations of decision-making under information overload in the Internet, where
people have an overwhelming number of available options to choose from, eg products to …