Editorial: User Modeling and Recommendations

Factors influencing privacy concern for explanations of group recommendation

Explanations can help users to better understand why items have been recommended. Additionally, explanations for group recommender systems need to consider further goals than single-user recommender systems. For example, we need to balance group members' need for privacy with their need for transparency, since a transparent explanation might...

Exploring User Concerns about Disclosing Location and Emotion Information in Group Recommendations

Recent research has shown that explanations serve as an important means to increase transparency in group recommendations while also increasing users' privacy concerns. However, it is currently unclear what personal and contextual factors affect users' privacy concerns about various types of personal information. This paper studies the effect...

Using social media mining for estimating theory of planned behaviour parameters

In this position paper we present the scenario of making interventions for increasing the classical music concert-going behaviour of end users. Within the FP7 Phenicx project we are developing a personalized persuasive system that attempts at changing the concert-going behaviour of users. The system is based on the theory of planned behaviour...