User Interfaces for Counteracting Decision Manipulation in Group Recommender Systems

In group recommender systems,decision manipulation refers to an attack in which a group member makes attempts to push his/her favorite options. In this paper, we propose user interfaces to counteract decision manipulation in group recommender systems. The proposed user interfaces visualize information dimensions regarding rating adaptations of group members at different transparency levels. The results show that the user interface at the highest transparency level best helps to discourage users from decision manipulation. Besides, the ability of the user interfaces to counteract decision manipulation differs depending on the dimensions represented in the user interfaces. The information dimensions regarding "\textititem ratings " and "\textitgroup recommendations " have the strongest impacts on preventing users from decision manipulation.

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