Make it personal: A social explanation system applied to group recommendations

作者:

Highlights:

• We propose personalized social individual explanations for group recommenders.

• We propose both a textual and a graphical social explanation approach.

• We study the benefits of including explanations in group recommender systems.

• We study the benefits of including social components to these explanations.

• Results show a significant increase in users’ intent to follow our recommendations.

摘要

•We propose personalized social individual explanations for group recommenders.•We propose both a textual and a graphical social explanation approach.•We study the benefits of including explanations in group recommender systems.•We study the benefits of including social components to these explanations.•Results show a significant increase in users’ intent to follow our recommendations.

论文关键词:Social explanations,Group recommenders,Personalization,Social networks,Personality,Tie strength

论文评审过程:Received 6 June 2016, Revised 9 November 2016, Accepted 25 January 2017, Available online 26 January 2017, Version of Record 5 February 2017.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2017.01.045