- Experimental design
- Goal: Measure the effectiveness of the signup process
- Metrics:
- User effort - How hard was it to sign up
- Accuracy - How well can the system make recommendations to the users
- Reults
- Random/Classique perform worst
- Popularity, (log) Popularity * Entropy, Item-Item personalized strategies give the reasonable performance on both metrics
Reference
A. M. Rashid et al., “Getting to know you: learning new user preferences in recommender systems,” in Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces - IUI ’02, San Francisco, California, USA, 2002, p. 127. doi: 10.1145/502716.502737.
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