Explanations for Groups

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Abstract

Explanations are used in recommender systems for various reasons. Users have to be supported in making (high-quality) decisions more quickly. Developers of recommender systems want to convince users to purchase specific items. Users should better understand how the recommender system works and why a specific item has been recommended. Users should also develop a more in-depth understanding of the item domain. Consequently, explanations are designed in order to achieve specific goals such as increasing the transparency of a recommendation or increasing a user’s trust in the recommender system. In this chapter, we provide an overview of existing research related to explanations in recommender systems, and specifically discuss aspects relevant to group recommendation scenarios. In this context, we present different ways of explaining and visualizing recommendations determined on the basis of aggregated predictions and aggregated models strategies.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationGroup Recommender Systems
Subtitle of host publicationAn Introduction
Place of PublicationCham
PublisherSpringer
Chapter6
Pages105-126
Number of pages22
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-319-75067-5
ISBN (Print)978-3-319-75066-8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018

Publication series

NameSpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Keywords

  • explanations
  • group recommendation

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