The Effectiveness of Personalized Movie Explanations: An Experiment Using Commercial Meta-data

Nava Tintarev; Judith Masthoff

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The Effectiveness of Personalized Movie Explanations: An Experiment Using Commercial Meta-data

Nava Tintarev, Judith Masthoff

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This paper studies the properties of a helpful and trustworthy explanation in a movie recommender system. It discuss the results of an experiment based on a natural language explanation prototype. The explanations were varied according to three factors: degree of personalization, polarity and expression of unknown movie features. Personalized explanations were not found to be significantly more Effective than nonpersonalized, or baseline explanations. Rather, explanations in all three conditions performed surprisingly well. We also found that participants evaluated the explanations themselves most highly in the personalized, feature-based condition.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems
Subtitle of host publication	5th International Conference, AH 2008, Hannover, Germany, July/August, 2008, Proceedings
Editors	Wolfgang Nejdl, Judy Kay, Pearl Pu, Eelco Herder
Place of Publication	Berlin, Germany
Publisher	Springer-Verlag
Pages	204-213
ISBN (Print)	3540709843, 978-3540709848
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70987-9_23
Publication status	Published - 18 Jul 2008

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Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Volume	5149
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743

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Tintarev, N., & Masthoff, J. (2008). The Effectiveness of Personalized Movie Explanations: An Experiment Using Commercial Meta-data. In W. Nejdl, J. Kay, P. Pu, & E. Herder (Eds.), Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems: 5th International Conference, AH 2008, Hannover, Germany, July/August, 2008, Proceedings (pp. 204-213). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 5149). Springer-Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70987-9_23

The Effectiveness of Personalized Movie Explanations : An Experiment Using Commercial Meta-data. / Tintarev, Nava; Masthoff, Judith.

Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems: 5th International Conference, AH 2008, Hannover, Germany, July/August, 2008, Proceedings . ed. / Wolfgang Nejdl; Judy Kay; Pearl Pu; Eelco Herder. Berlin, Germany : Springer-Verlag, 2008. p. 204-213 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 5149).

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Tintarev, N & Masthoff, J 2008, The Effectiveness of Personalized Movie Explanations: An Experiment Using Commercial Meta-data. in W Nejdl, J Kay, P Pu & E Herder (eds), Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems: 5th International Conference, AH 2008, Hannover, Germany, July/August, 2008, Proceedings . Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 5149, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, pp. 204-213. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70987-9_23

Tintarev N, Masthoff J. The Effectiveness of Personalized Movie Explanations: An Experiment Using Commercial Meta-data. In Nejdl W, Kay J, Pu P, Herder E, editors, Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems: 5th International Conference, AH 2008, Hannover, Germany, July/August, 2008, Proceedings . Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag. 2008. p. 204-213. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70987-9_23

Tintarev, Nava ; Masthoff, Judith. / The Effectiveness of Personalized Movie Explanations : An Experiment Using Commercial Meta-data. Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems: 5th International Conference, AH 2008, Hannover, Germany, July/August, 2008, Proceedings . editor / Wolfgang Nejdl ; Judy Kay ; Pearl Pu ; Eelco Herder. Berlin, Germany : Springer-Verlag, 2008. pp. 204-213 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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