User simulation for evaluating information access systems

K Balog, CX Zhai - Proceedings of the Annual International ACM SIGIR …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
With the emergence of various information access systems exhibiting increasing complexity,
there is a critical need for sound and scalable means of automatic evaluation. To address …

Recommender systems and their ethical challenges

S Milano, M Taddeo, L Floridi - Ai & Society, 2020 - Springer
This article presents the first, systematic analysis of the ethical challenges posed by
recommender systems through a literature review. The article identifies six areas of concern …

Towards psychology-aware preference construction in recommender systems: Overview and research issues

M Atas, A Felfernig, S Polat-Erdeniz, A Popescu… - Journal of Intelligent …, 2021 - Springer
User preferences are a crucial input needed by recommender systems to determine relevant
items. In single-shot recommendation scenarios such as content-based filtering and …

Let me explain: Impact of personal and impersonal explanations on trust in recommender systems

J Kunkel, T Donkers, L Michael, CM Barbu… - Proceedings of the 2019 …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Trust in a Recommender System (RS) is crucial for its overall success. However, it remains
underexplored whether users trust personal recommendation sources (ie other humans) …

A hybrid recommendation system with many-objective evolutionary algorithm

X Cai, Z Hu, P Zhao, W Zhang, J Chen - Expert Systems with Applications, 2020 - Elsevier
Recommendation system (RS) is a technology that provides accurate recommendations to
users. However, it is not comprehensive to only consider the accuracy of the …

Psychology-informed recommender systems

E Lex, D Kowald, P Seitlinger, TNT Tran… - … and trends® in …, 2021 - nowpublishers.com
Personalized recommender systems have become indispensable in today's online world.
Most of today's recommendation algorithms are data-driven and based on behavioral data …

Designing for the better by taking users into account: A qualitative evaluation of user control mechanisms in (news) recommender systems

J Harambam, D Bountouridis, M Makhortykh… - Proceedings of the 13th …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Recommender systems (RS) are on the rise in many domains. While they offer great
promises, they also raise concerns: lack of transparency, reduction of diversity, little to no …

Towards emotion-aware recommender systems: an affective coherence model based on emotion-driven behaviors

M Polignano, F Narducci, M de Gemmis… - Expert Systems with …, 2021 - Elsevier
Decision making is the cognitive process of identifying and choosing alternatives based on
preferences, beliefs, and degree of importance given by the decision maker to objects or …

Instructing and prompting large language models for explainable cross-domain recommendations

A Petruzzelli, C Musto, L Laraspata, I Rinaldi… - Proceedings of the 18th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
In this paper, we present a strategy to provide users with explainable cross-domain
recommendations (CDR) that exploits large language models (LLMs). Generally speaking …

How to recommend? User trust factors in movie recommender systems

S Berkovsky, R Taib, D Conway - Proceedings of the 22nd international …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
How much trust a user places in a recommender is crucial to the uptake of the
recommendations. Although prior work established various factors that build and sustain …