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...

Mobile Insurance - Overcoming Privacy Concerns in the Consumer Use of Insurance Services based on Mobile Technologies

Management summary: Research problem Ongoing digitalization results in both threats as opportunities for the insurance sector. Increased transparency stimulates switching behavior and shifts the insurance market to a more price based competition. Together with recent developments such as the ban on intermediary commissions and the separation of...