Music recommendations for groups of users

  • Authors:
  • Pedro Dias;João Magalhães

  • Affiliations:
  • Universidade Nova Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal;Universidade Nova Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2013 ACM international workshop on Immersive media experiences
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

This paper presents an algorithm capable of providing meaningful recommendations to small sets of users. We consider not only rating patterns, bias tendencies, and temporal fluctuations, but also group-leaders. The approach here presented intends to bring a fresh new look over group recommendations, making use of latent factor space to identify groups and make recommendations. Although these recommendations are oriented towards a few users, the preferences of their respective group leaders (users that better represent the group) are also taken into account to diversify and smooth these recommendations. In contrast to the majority of group recommender systems described in literature, our system employs a collaborative filtering approach based on latent factor space instead of content-based or ratings merging approaches.