Conducting Personalization Design Workshops — Designing Personalization Procedures

User-centered design for personalization

Fair Personalization

Personalization is pervasive in the online space as, when combined with learning, it leads to higher efficiency and revenue by allowing the most relevant content to be served to each user. However, recent studies suggest that such personalization can propagate societal or systemic biases, which has led to calls for regulatory mechanisms and algorithms to combat inequality. Here we propose a rig...

An Individual Differences Approach in Designing Ontologies for Efficient Personalization

This article discusses the potential role of cognitive individual differences in the context of designing ontologies for personalization on users’ characteristics. The theoretical framework of the proposed approach is derived from the long tradition of psychometric testing, incorporating implications from the field of differential and cognitive psychology. The current state of the identificatio...

Search Personalization

Online search or information retrieval is one of the most common activities on the web. Over 18 billion searches are made each month, and search generates over $4 billion dollars in quarterly revenues. Nevertheless, a signicant portion of search sessions are not only long (consisting of repeated queries from the user), but are also unsuccessful, i.e., do not provide answers that the user was lo...

Multimedia Personalization

Definition: Multimedia personalization is tailoring digital audiovisual content to its users, based on personal details or characteristics they provide. It allows a content provider to adapt specific multimedia content in accordance with individual standards, tastes and preferences. For example, movies can be personalized based on genre, cast, director, etc.