RecSys’14 Joint Workshop on Interfaces and Human Decision Making for Recommender Systems

As an interactive intelligent system, recommender systems are developed to give predictions that match users preferences. Since the emergence of recommender systems, a large majority of research focuses on objective accuracy criteria and less attention has been paid to how users interact with the system and the efficacy of interface designs from the end-user perspective. The field has reached a point where it is ready to look beyond algorithms, into users interactions, decision-making processes and overall experience. Accordingly, the goals of this workshop (IntRS@RecSys) are to explore the human aspects of recommender systems, with a particular focus on the impact of interfaces and interaction design on decision-making and user experiences with recommender systems, and to explore methodologies to evaluate these human aspects of the recommendation process that go beyond traditional automated approaches.