Tag Archives: serendipity

Surprise Recommendations need Reasonable Explanation

In recent years, many researches focus on increasing recommendation serendiptiy – how to make surprise recommendation. In my research, I find surprise recommendation is not enough, we must give reasonable explanations. This is because users need explanation to make sure your recommendation is relavant to them. In real life, we always give detail explaination when [...]

Increasing serendipity by recommending items of users extraordinary interest

This paper “Anatomy of the Long Tail: Ordinary People with Extraordinary Tastes“ proves that every user has extraordinary tastes. Except for extraordinary tastes, users will also have social preferences. For example, I am a researcher on dataming, thus I will have extraordinary preference on dataming and read many article which is unknown by most of [...]