Group Modeling : selecting a sequence of television items to suit a group of viewers

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Impact of a Learner’s Personality on the Selection of the Next Learning Activity

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The Effects of Learners' Verbal and Visual Cognitive Styles on Instruction Selection

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Affective State for Learning Activities Selection

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Understanding how to Explain Package Recommendations in the Clothes Domain

Recommender system explanations have been widely studied in the context of recommending individual items to users. In this paper, we present and evaluate explanations for the more complex problem of package recommendation, where a combination of items that go well together are recommended as a package. We report the results of an empirical user study where participants try to select the most appropriate combination of a “top” (e.g. a shirt) and a “bottom” (e.g. a pair of trousers) for a hypothetical user based on one of 5 types of explanation communicating item-feature preferences and/or appropriateness of feature combinations. We found that the type of explanation significantly impacted decision time and resulted in selection of different packages, but found no difference in how participants appraised the different explanation types