A two-step, user-centered approach to personalized tourist recommendations

Valeria Orso; Alessandra Varotto; Stefano Rodaro; Anna Spagnolli; Giulio Jacucci; Salvatore Andolina; Jukka Leino; Luciano Gamberini

doi:10.1145/3125571.3125594

A two-step, user-centered approach to personalized tourist recommendations

Valeria Orso, Alessandra Varotto, Stefano Rodaro, Anna Spagnolli, Giulio Jacucci, Salvatore Andolina, Jukka Leino, Luciano Gamberini

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Abstract

Geo-localized, mobile applications can simplify a tourist visit, making the relevant Point of Interests more easily and promptly discernible to users. At the same time, such solutions must avoid creating unfitting or rigid user profiles that impoverish the users' options instead of refining them. Currently, user profiles in recommender systems rely on dimensions whose relevance to the user is more often presumed than empirically defined. To avoid this drawback, we build our recommendation system in a two-step process, where profile parameters are evaluated preliminarily and separately from the recommendations themselves. We describe this two-step evaluation process including an initial survey (N=206), and a subsequent controlled study (N=24). We conclude by emphasizing the benefit and generalizability of the approach.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 12th Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter
Subtitle of host publication	Towards the Mediterranean, CHItaly 2017
Publisher	ACM
Volume	Part F131371
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450352376
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3125571.3125594
Publication status	Published - 18 Sept 2017
MoE publication type	A4 Article in a conference publication
Event	Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter: Towards the Mediterranean - Cagliari, Italy Duration: 18 Sept 2017 → 20 Sept 2017 Conference number: 12

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Conference	Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter
Abbreviated title	CHItaly
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Cagliari
Period	18/09/2017 → 20/09/2017

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Tourist applications
User validation

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Orso, V., Varotto, A., Rodaro, S., Spagnolli, A., Jacucci, G., Andolina, S., Leino, J., & Gamberini, L. (2017). A two-step, user-centered approach to personalized tourist recommendations. In Proceedings of the 12th Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter: Towards the Mediterranean, CHItaly 2017 (Vol. Part F131371). [a7] ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3125571.3125594

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A two-step, user-centered approach to personalized tourist recommendations. / Orso, Valeria; Varotto, Alessandra; Rodaro, Stefano et al.
Proceedings of the 12th Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter: Towards the Mediterranean, CHItaly 2017. Vol. Part F131371 ACM, 2017. a7.

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