RecSys for distributed events: investigating the influence of recommendations on visitor plans

Schaller, Richard, Harvey, Morgan and Elsweiler, David (2013) RecSys for distributed events: investigating the influence of recommendations on visitor plans. In: Proceedings of the 36th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, pp. 953-956. ISBN 978-1-4503-2034-4

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Abstract

Distributed events are collections of events taking place within a small area over the same time period and relating to a single topic. There are often a large number of events on offer and the times in which they can be visited are heavily constrained, therefore the task of choosing events to visit and in which order can be very difficult. In this work we investigate how visitors can be assisted by means of a recommender system via 2 large-scale naturalistic studies (n=860 and n=1047). We show that a recommender system can influence users to select events that result in tighter and more compact routes, thus allowing users to spend less time travelling and more time visiting events.

Item Type:	Book Section
Subjects:	G400 Computer Science G500 Information Systems
Department:	Faculties > Engineering and Environment > Mathematics, Physics and Electrical Engineering
Related URLs:	Organisation
Depositing User:	Morgan Harvey
Date Deposited:	27 Apr 2015 11:52
Last Modified:	10 Oct 2019 23:15
URI:	http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/22218

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