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Visualizing recommendations to support exploration, transparency and controllability

Verbert, K and Parra, D and Brusilovsky, P and Duval, E (2013) Visualizing recommendations to support exploration, transparency and controllability. In: UNSPECIFIED.

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Abstract

Research on recommender systems has traditionally focused on the development of algorithms to improve accuracy of recommendations. So far, little research has been done to enable user interaction with such systems as a basis to support exploration and control by end users. In this paper, we present our research on the use of information visualization techniques to interact with recommender systems. We investigated how information visualization can improve user understanding of the typically black-box rationale behind recommendations in order to increase their perceived relevance and meaning and to support exploration and user involvement in the recommendation process. Our study has been performed using TalkExplorer, an interactive visualization tool developed for attendees of academic conferences. The results of user studies performed at two conferences allowed us to obtain interesting insights to enhance user interfaces that integrate recommendation technology. More specifically, effectiveness and probability of item selection both increase when users are able to explore and interrelate multiple entities - i.e. items bookmarked by users, recommendations and tags. Copyright © 2013 ACM.


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Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (UNSPECIFIED)
Status: Published
Creators/Authors:
CreatorsEmailPitt UsernameORCID
Verbert, K
Parra, D
Brusilovsky, Ppeterb@pitt.eduPETERB0000-0002-1902-1464
Duval, E
Date: 19 March 2013
Date Type: Publication
Journal or Publication Title: International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Proceedings IUI
Page Range: 351 - 362
Event Type: Conference
DOI or Unique Handle: 10.1145/2449396.2449442
Schools and Programs: School of Information Sciences > Information Science
Refereed: Yes
ISBN: 9781450320559
Date Deposited: 22 Jul 2013 17:56
Last Modified: 30 Oct 2017 03:55
URI: http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/19382

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