The effect of preference elicitation methods on the user experience of a recommender system

To increase the user experience, preference elicitation methods used by recommender systems can be adapted to individual differences such as the level of expertise. However, we will show that the satisfaction and perceived usefulness of a recommender system also depends strongly on subtle variations of the implementation of these methods.

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