Evaluating recommender systems from the user's perspective: survey of the state of the art

P Pu, L Chen, R Hu - User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, 2012 - Springer
A recommender system is a Web technology that proactively suggests items of interest to
users based on their objective behavior or explicitly stated preferences. Evaluations of …

Critiquing-based recommenders: survey and emerging trends

L Chen, P Pu - User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, 2012 - Springer
Critiquing-based recommender systems elicit users' feedback, called critiques, which they
made on the recommended items. This conversational style of interaction is in contract to the …

An intelligent personal assistant for task and time management

K Myers, P Berry, J Blythe, K Conley, M Gervasio… - AI Magazine, 2007 - ojs.aaai.org
We describe an intelligent personal assistant that has been developed to aid a busy
knowledge worker in managing time commitments and performing tasks. The design of the …

MusicBot: Evaluating critiquing-based music recommenders with conversational interaction

Y **, W Cai, L Chen, NN Htun, K Verbert - Proceedings of the 28th ACM …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Critiquing-based recommender systems aim to elicit more accurate user preferences from
users' feedback toward recommendations. However, systems using a graphical user …

“I Want It That Way”: Enabling Interactive Decision Support Using Large Language Models and Constraint Programming

C Lawless, J Schoeffer, L Le, K Rowan, S Sen… - ACM Transactions on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
A critical factor in the success of many decision support systems is the accurate modeling of
user preferences. Psychology research has demonstrated that users often develop their …

Preference reasoning with soft constraints in constraint-based recommender systems

M Zanker, M Jessenitschnig, W Schmid - Constraints, 2010 - Springer
A recommender system (RS) supports online users in e-commerce by proposing products
that are assumed to be both useful and interesting. Knowledge-based recommendation …

Learning ordinal preferences on multiattribute domains: The case of CP-nets

Y Chevaleyre, F Koriche, J Lang, J Mengin… - Preference learning, 2010 - Springer
A recurrent issue in decision making is to extract a preference structure by observing the
user's behavior in different situations. In this paper, we investigate the problem of learning …

Usability guidelines for product recommenders based on example critiquing research

P Pu, B Faltings, L Chen, J Zhang… - Recommender systems …, 2011 - Springer
Over the past decade, our group has developed a suite of decision tools based on example
critiquing to help users find their preferred products in e-commerce environments. In this …

Movieexplorer: building an interactive exploration tool from ratings and latent taste spaces

TT Taijala, MC Willemsen, JA Konstan - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
This 1 paper introduces and evaluates MovieExplorer, an interactive exploration tool
designed to use the data available in a traditional ratings-based recommender system to …

Conversational recommenders with adaptive suggestions

P Viappiani, P Pu, B Faltings - Proceedings of the 2007 ACM conference …, 2007 - dl.acm.org
We consider a conversational recommender system based on example-critiquing where
some recommendations are suggestions aimed at stimulating preference expression to …