Experience Discovery: hybrid recommendation of student activities using social network data

  • Authors:
  • Robin Burke;Yong Zheng;Scott Riley

  • Affiliations:
  • DePaul University Chicago, Illinois;DePaul University Chicago, Illinois;DePaul University Chicago, Illinois

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Information Heterogeneity and Fusion in Recommender Systems
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

The aim of the Experience Discovery project is to recommend extracurricular activities to high school and middle school students in urban areas. In implementing this system, we have been able to make use of both usage data and data drawn from a social networking site. Using pilot data, we are able to show that very simple aggregation techniques applied to the social network can improve recommendation accuracy.