11 Listener awareness in music recommender systems: directions and current trends
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Peter Knees
Abstract
Music recommender systems are a widely adopted application of personalized systems and interfaces. By tracking the listening activity of their users and building preference profiles, a user can be given recommendations based on the preference profiles of all users (collaborative filtering), characteristics of the music listened to (contentbased methods), meta-data and relational data (knowledge-based methods; sometimes also considered content-based methods) or a mixture of these with other features (hybrid methods). In this chapter, we focus on the listener’s aspects of music recommender systems. We discuss different factors influencing relevance for recommendation on both the listener’s and the music’s side and categorize existing work. In more detail, we then review aspects of (i) listener background in terms of individual, i. e., personality traits and demographic characteristics, and cultural features, i. e., societal and environmental characteristics, (ii) listener context, in particular modeling dynamic properties and situational listening behavior and (iii) listener intention, in particular by studying music information behavior, i. e., how people seek, find and use music information. This is followed by a discussion of user-centric evaluation strategies for music recommender systems. We conclude the chapter with a reflection on current barriers, by pointing out current and longer-term limitations of existing approaches and outlining strategies for overcoming these.
Abstract
Music recommender systems are a widely adopted application of personalized systems and interfaces. By tracking the listening activity of their users and building preference profiles, a user can be given recommendations based on the preference profiles of all users (collaborative filtering), characteristics of the music listened to (contentbased methods), meta-data and relational data (knowledge-based methods; sometimes also considered content-based methods) or a mixture of these with other features (hybrid methods). In this chapter, we focus on the listener’s aspects of music recommender systems. We discuss different factors influencing relevance for recommendation on both the listener’s and the music’s side and categorize existing work. In more detail, we then review aspects of (i) listener background in terms of individual, i. e., personality traits and demographic characteristics, and cultural features, i. e., societal and environmental characteristics, (ii) listener context, in particular modeling dynamic properties and situational listening behavior and (iii) listener intention, in particular by studying music information behavior, i. e., how people seek, find and use music information. This is followed by a discussion of user-centric evaluation strategies for music recommender systems. We conclude the chapter with a reflection on current barriers, by pointing out current and longer-term limitations of existing approaches and outlining strategies for overcoming these.
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Introduction V
- Contents IX
- List of Contributing Authors XI
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Part I: Foundations of personalization
- 1 Theory-grounded user modeling for personalized HCI 1
- 2 User-centered recommender systems 33
- 3 Fairness of information access systems 59
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Part II: User input and feedback
- 4 Personalization and user modeling for interaction processes 81
- 5 How to use socio-emotional signals for adaptive training 99
- 6 Explanations and user control in recommender systems 129
- 7 Feedback loops and mutual reinforcement in personalized interaction 153
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Part III: Personalization purposes and goals
- 8 Personalizing the user interface for people with disabilities 175
- 9 Personalized persuasion for behavior change 205
- 10 Personalization approaches for remote collaborative interaction 237
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Part IV: Personalization domains
- 11 Listener awareness in music recommender systems: directions and current trends 279
- 12 Tourist trip recommendations – foundations, state of the art and challenges 313
- 13 Pictures as a tool for matching tourist preferences with destinations 337
- Index 355
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Introduction V
- Contents IX
- List of Contributing Authors XI
-
Part I: Foundations of personalization
- 1 Theory-grounded user modeling for personalized HCI 1
- 2 User-centered recommender systems 33
- 3 Fairness of information access systems 59
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Part II: User input and feedback
- 4 Personalization and user modeling for interaction processes 81
- 5 How to use socio-emotional signals for adaptive training 99
- 6 Explanations and user control in recommender systems 129
- 7 Feedback loops and mutual reinforcement in personalized interaction 153
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Part III: Personalization purposes and goals
- 8 Personalizing the user interface for people with disabilities 175
- 9 Personalized persuasion for behavior change 205
- 10 Personalization approaches for remote collaborative interaction 237
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Part IV: Personalization domains
- 11 Listener awareness in music recommender systems: directions and current trends 279
- 12 Tourist trip recommendations – foundations, state of the art and challenges 313
- 13 Pictures as a tool for matching tourist preferences with destinations 337
- Index 355
