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How can they know that? A study of factors affecting the creepiness of recommendations

Helma Torkamaan, , Catalin-Mihai Barbu, Jürgen Ziegler Abstract Recommender systems (RS) often use implicit user preferences extracted from behavioral and contextual data, in addition to traditional rating-based preference elicitation, to increase the quality and accuracy of personalized recommendations. However, these approaches may harm user experience by causing mixed emotions, such as fear, anxiety, surprise, discomfort, […]

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Rating-Based Preference Elicitation for Recommendation of Stress Intervention

Helma Torkamaan, Jürgen Ziegler Abstract In recent years, recommender systems have emerged as a key component for personalization in health applications. Central in the development of recommender systems is rating-based preference elicitation, based both on single-criterion and multi-criteria rating. Though its use has already been studied in various domains of recommender systems, far too little

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Multi-Criteria Rating-Based Preference Elicitation in Health Recommender Systems

Helma Torkamaan, Jürgen Ziegler Abstract A multi-criteria rating looks for important dimensions to more extensively capture an individual’s opinion about a recommended item. Health Recommender Systems (HRS) is considered to be an emerging domain of recommender systems. In HRS, criteria for a multi-criteria preference elicitation of a recommendation have not yet been fully investigated to

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Towards Health (Aware) Recommender Systems

Hanna Schäfer, Santiago Hors-Fraile, Raghav Pavan Karumur, André Calero Valdez, Alan Said, Helma Torkamaan, Tom Ulmer, Christoph Trattner Abstract People increasingly use the Internet for obtaining information regarding diseases, diagnoses and available treatments. Currently, many online health portals already provide non-personalized health information in the form of articles. However, it can be challenging to find

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A taxonomy of mood research and its applications in computer science

Helma Torkamaan, Jürgen Ziegler Abstract A growing number of studies in the computer science and engineering communities are addressing mood, an affective phenomenon related but not equivalent to emotion. While emotion has been investigated intensely in the affective computing domain, the characteristics and applications of mood are relatively unexplored. Through a bottom-up approach, this paper

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