a user-centric evaluation of recommender algorithms for an event recommendation system

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A User-centric Evaluation of Recommender Algorithms for an Event Recommendation System Simon Dooms, Toon De Pessemier, Luc Martens @sidooms

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Describing the setup and results of a user-centric online experiment where 5 different recommendation algorithms are tested on a Belgium events website.

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Page 1: A User-centric Evaluation of Recommender Algorithms for an Event Recommendation System

A User-centric Evaluation of Recommender Algorithms for an Event Recommendation SystemSimon Dooms, Toon De Pessemier, Luc Martens

@sidooms

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Introduction

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• Online context• Cultural events• 30,000 items

Recommender System?

Concl.ResultsQuestionsAlgorithmsFeedbackExperimentIntroIntro

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The Experiment

Invitation mailDAY 1

Closed questionnaireDAY 56

DAY 41

End tracking

DAY 45

Send out recs

DAY 50Reminder mail

Reminder mailDAY 28

Concl.ResultsQuestionsAlgorithmsFeedbackIntroExperimentExperiment

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FeedbackConcl.ResultsQuestionsAlgorithms

FeedbackFeedbackExperimentIntro

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Algorithms

Content-Based CBUser-Based Collaborative Filtering UBCFHybrid recommender CB+UBCFSingular Value Decomposition SVDRandom recommender RAND

Concl.ResultsQuestionsAlgorithmsAlgorithmsFeedbackExperimentIntro

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QuestionnaireConcl.Results

QuestionsQuestionsAlgorithmsFeedbackExperimentIntro

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AccuracyFamiliarity

NoveltyDiversity

TransparencySatisfaction

TrustUsefulness

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Results

612 users

Concl.ResultsResultsQuestionsAlgorithmsFeedbackExperimentIntro

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232 users193 users

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Concl.ResultsResultsQuestionsAlgorithmsFeedbackExperimentIntro

Average scores per question and algorithm

Accuracy Familiarity Novelty Diversity Trans. Satisfaction Trust Usefulness10/23/2011 Simon Dooms - Ghent University - UCERSTI 2 8

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Concl.ResultsResultsQuestionsAlgorithmsFeedbackExperimentIntro

Average scores per question and algorithm

Accuracy Satisfaction910/23/2011 Simon Dooms - Ghent University - UCERSTI 2

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CorrelationsConcl.

ResultsResultsQuestionsAlgorithmsFeedbackExperimentIntro

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AccuracyFamiliarity

NoveltyDiversity

TransparencySatisfaction

TrustUsefulness

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RegressionsConcl.

ResultsResultsQuestionsAlgorithmsFeedbackExperimentIntro

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Conclusions

• Online user-centric evaluation experiment• 5 popular algorithms: CB, UBCF, CB+UBCF, SVD, RAND

• CB+UBCF winner algorithm• SVD ‘loser’ algorithm• Accuracy and Transparency Satisfaction• Diversity NOT correlated with Satisfaction

Concl.Concl.ResultsQuestionsAlgorithmsFeedbackExperimentIntro

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Simon Dooms, Toon De Pessemier, Luc Martens

A User-centric Evaluationof Recommender Algorithms for an Event Recommendation System

With the support of IWT Vlaanderen and FWO Vlaanderen