This paper presents a visual interface developed on the basis of control and transparency to elicit preferences in the scientific and cultural domain. Preference elicitation is a recognized challenge in user modeling for personalized recommender systems. The amount of feedback the user is willing to provide depends on how trustworthy the system seems to be and how invasive the elicitation proce...

In these notes, I will summarize the basic ideas in choice theory, which you must be familiar with from 14.121. I will describe three ways of modeling individual choice, namely choice function, preference, and utility maximization. I will present the conditions under which one can use each model. One can always use choice functions in modeling a decision maker’s choice at a given situation. In ...

In this study, we conducted an online survey and collected 86 reliable responses on both a personality assessment inventory and ratings retail products ratings, with the aim of investigating whether personality characteristics have an impact on user rating behaviors. Besides personality factors, another four independent variables (i.e., age, gender, previous experience on using recommenders and...

Citation: Lembo G, Bellido JM, Bitetto I, Facchini MT, García-Jiménez T, Stithou M, Vassilopoulou VC and Spedicato MT (2017) Preference Modeling to Support Stakeholder Outreach toward the Common Fishery Policy Objectives in the North Mediterranean Sea. Front. Mar. Sci. 4:328. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00328 Preference Modeling to Support Stakeholder Outreach toward the Common Fishery Policy Objec...

The goal of this research is to develop a methodology that will improve public satisfaction with highway design and planning where visual presentation of design options is performed. A review of two visual assessment methodologies shows that these either cannot provide satisfactory design element guidance or are too resource-intensive to be useful in situations where many design elements are un...