Adaptive radio: achieving consensus using negative preferences

  • Authors:
  • Dennis L. Chao;Justin Balthrop;Stephanie Forrest

  • Affiliations:
  • Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA;University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM;Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM

  • Venue:
  • GROUP '05 Proceedings of the 2005 international ACM SIGGROUP conference on Supporting group work
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

We introduce the use of negative preferences to produce solutions that are acceptable to a group of users. This technique takes advantage of the fact that discovering what a user does not like can be easier than discovering what the user does like. To illustrate the approach, we implemented Adaptive Radio, a system that selects music to play in a shared environment. Rather than attempting to play the songs that users want to hear, the system avoids playing songs that they do not want to hear. Negative preferences could potentially be applied to information filtering, intelligent environments, and collaborative design.