Pub Date : 2023-09-22DOI: 10.1007/s11257-023-09380-z
Thi Ngoc Trang Tran, Alexander Felfernig, Viet Man Le
Abstract Group decision-making processes can be supported by group recommender systems that help groups of users obtain satisfying decision outcomes. These systems integrate a consensus-achieving process, allowing group members to discuss with each other on the potential items, adapt their opinions accordingly, and achieve an agreement on a selected item. Such a process, therefore, helps to generate group recommendations with a high satisfaction level of group members. Our article provides a rigorous review of the existing consensus approaches to group decision-making. These approaches are classified depending on the applied consensus models such as reference domain where a set of group members or items is selected for calculating consensus measures, coincidence method that calculates the consensus degree between group members depending on the coincidence concept, operators that aggregate user preferences, guidance measures where the consensus-achieving process is guided by different consensus measures, and recommendation generation and individual centrality that enhance the role of a moderator or a leader in the consensus-achieving process. Further consensus techniques for group decision-making in heterogeneous and large-scale groups are also discussed in this article. Besides, to provide an overall landscape of consensus approaches, we also discuss new consensus models in group recommender systems. These models attempt to improve basic aggregation strategies, further consider social relationship interactions, and provide group members with intuitive descriptions regarding the current consensus state of the group. Finally, we point out challenges and discuss open topics for future work.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-19DOI: 10.1007/s11257-023-09383-w
Dennis Paulino, António Correia, João Barroso, Hugo Paredes
Abstract Online microtask labor has increased its role in the last few years and has provided the possibility of people who were usually excluded from the labor market to work anytime and without geographical barriers. While this brings new opportunities for people to work remotely, it can also pose challenges regarding the difficulty of assigning tasks to workers according to their abilities. To this end, cognitive personalization can be used to assess the cognitive profile of each worker and subsequently match those workers to the most appropriate type of work that is available on the digital labor market. In this regard, we believe that the time is ripe for a review of the current state of research on cognitive personalization for digital labor. The present study was conducted by following the recommended guidelines for the software engineering domain through a systematic literature review that led to the analysis of 20 primary studies published from 2010 to 2020. The results report the application of several cognition theories derived from the field of psychology, which in turn revealed an apparent presence of studies indicating accurate levels of cognitive personalization in digital labor in addition to a potential increase in the worker’s performance, most frequently investigated in crowdsourcing settings. In view of this, the present essay seeks to contribute to the identification of several gaps and opportunities for future research in order to enhance the personalization of online labor, which has the potential of increasing both worker motivation and the quality of digital work.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-12DOI: 10.1007/s11257-023-09374-x
A. Cristea, Ahmed Alamri, Mohammed Alshehri, F. D. Pereira, A. Toda, E. H. T. de Oliveira, Craig Stewart
{"title":"The engage taxonomy: SDT-based measurable engagement indicators for MOOCs and their evaluation","authors":"A. Cristea, Ahmed Alamri, Mohammed Alshehri, F. D. Pereira, A. Toda, E. H. T. de Oliveira, Craig Stewart","doi":"10.1007/s11257-023-09374-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11257-023-09374-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49388,"journal":{"name":"User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2023-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43485299","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-31DOI: 10.1007/s11257-023-09373-y
D. Castilla, O. Del Tejo Catalá, Patricia Pons, F. Signol, Beatriz Rey, C. Suso‐Ribera, J. Pérez-Cortes
{"title":"Improving the understanding of web user behaviors through machine learning analysis of eye-tracking data","authors":"D. Castilla, O. Del Tejo Catalá, Patricia Pons, F. Signol, Beatriz Rey, C. Suso‐Ribera, J. Pérez-Cortes","doi":"10.1007/s11257-023-09373-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11257-023-09373-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49388,"journal":{"name":"User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45310109","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-12DOI: 10.1007/s11257-023-09375-w
Shabnam Najafian, Geoff Musick, Bart P. Knijnenburg, N. Tintarev
{"title":"How do people make decisions in disclosing personal information in tourism group recommendations in competitive versus cooperative conditions?","authors":"Shabnam Najafian, Geoff Musick, Bart P. Knijnenburg, N. Tintarev","doi":"10.1007/s11257-023-09375-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11257-023-09375-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49388,"journal":{"name":"User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49540865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-24DOI: 10.1007/s11257-023-09368-9
Ine Coppens, Toon De Pessemier, Luc Martens
{"title":"Connecting physical activity with context and motivation: a user study to define variables to integrate into mobile health recommenders","authors":"Ine Coppens, Toon De Pessemier, Luc Martens","doi":"10.1007/s11257-023-09368-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11257-023-09368-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49388,"journal":{"name":"User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48279451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-21DOI: 10.1007/s11257-023-09363-0
Francesco Barile, Tim Draws, Oana Inel, Alisa Rieger, Shabnam Najafian, Amir Ebrahimi Fard, Rishav Hada, Nava Tintarev
Abstract Social choice aggregation strategies have been proposed as an explainable way to generate recommendations to groups of users. However, it is not trivial to determine the best strategy to apply for a specific group. Previous work highlighted that the performance of a group recommender system is affected by the internal diversity of the group members’ preferences. However, few of them have empirically evaluated how the specific distribution of preferences in a group determines which strategy is the most effective. Furthermore, only a few studies evaluated the impact of providing explanations for the recommendations generated with social choice aggregation strategies, by evaluating explanations and aggregation strategies in a coupled way. To fill these gaps, we present two user studies ( N =399 and N =288) examining the effectiveness of social choice aggregation strategies in terms of users’ fairness perception, consensus perception, and satisfaction. We study the impact of the level of (dis-)agreement within the group on the performance of these strategies. Furthermore, we investigate the added value of textual explanations of the underlying social choice aggregation strategy used to generate the recommendation. The results of both user studies show no benefits in using social choice-based explanations for group recommendations. However, we find significant differences in the effectiveness of the social choice-based aggregation strategies in both studies. Furthermore, the specific group configuration (i.e., various scenarios of internal diversity) seems to determine the most effective aggregation strategy. These results provide useful insights on how to select the appropriate aggregation strategy for a specific group based on the level of (dis-)agreement within the group members’ preferences.
{"title":"Evaluating explainable social choice-based aggregation strategies for group recommendation","authors":"Francesco Barile, Tim Draws, Oana Inel, Alisa Rieger, Shabnam Najafian, Amir Ebrahimi Fard, Rishav Hada, Nava Tintarev","doi":"10.1007/s11257-023-09363-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11257-023-09363-0","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Social choice aggregation strategies have been proposed as an explainable way to generate recommendations to groups of users. However, it is not trivial to determine the best strategy to apply for a specific group. Previous work highlighted that the performance of a group recommender system is affected by the internal diversity of the group members’ preferences. However, few of them have empirically evaluated how the specific distribution of preferences in a group determines which strategy is the most effective. Furthermore, only a few studies evaluated the impact of providing explanations for the recommendations generated with social choice aggregation strategies, by evaluating explanations and aggregation strategies in a coupled way. To fill these gaps, we present two user studies ( N =399 and N =288) examining the effectiveness of social choice aggregation strategies in terms of users’ fairness perception, consensus perception, and satisfaction. We study the impact of the level of (dis-)agreement within the group on the performance of these strategies. Furthermore, we investigate the added value of textual explanations of the underlying social choice aggregation strategy used to generate the recommendation. The results of both user studies show no benefits in using social choice-based explanations for group recommendations. However, we find significant differences in the effectiveness of the social choice-based aggregation strategies in both studies. Furthermore, the specific group configuration (i.e., various scenarios of internal diversity) seems to determine the most effective aggregation strategy. These results provide useful insights on how to select the appropriate aggregation strategy for a specific group based on the level of (dis-)agreement within the group members’ preferences.","PeriodicalId":49388,"journal":{"name":"User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction","volume":"464 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136355750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-19DOI: 10.1007/s11257-023-09372-z
H. Al-Samarraie, Samer Muthana Sarsam, A. Alzahrani
{"title":"Emotional intelligence and individuals’ viewing behaviour of human faces: a predictive approach","authors":"H. Al-Samarraie, Samer Muthana Sarsam, A. Alzahrani","doi":"10.1007/s11257-023-09372-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11257-023-09372-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49388,"journal":{"name":"User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction","volume":"33 1","pages":"889 - 909"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47325688","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}