Group Fun
We have developed a music group recommender system named GroupFun, which is a Facebook application that recommends music for groups of users for events, such as a graduation party. The functions of GroupFun mainly include: 1) group management, 2) music recommendation. Users are able to create a group, invite their friends to group, and join (…)
Survey on Hybrid Critiquing
Given their respective strengths, a Hybrid of Example-Critiquing (EC) and Dynamic-Critiquing (DC) was developed to combine them together on the same screen, so that users can not only specify their own critiques if necessary with EC, but also obtain the knowledge of remaining recommendation opportunities and pick the suggested critiques by DC if one of (…)
Online Product Finder
The system has been developed to assist users in searching for high-involvement products, such as digital cameras, tablet PCs, and laptops. It is composed of two main decision components: preference-based organization interface and example-critiquing support. The former acts as explanation facility to help users understand the computational reasoning of recommendation generation but also critiques suggestions (…)
CritiqueShop – Critique-based Recommender Systems
CritiqueShop is an online platform for designing and evaluating e-commerce product search tools based on the critiquing technique. It provides a unified user interface so that the performances of different recommendation algorithms can be evaluated under the same condition. This system is developed with Java/AJAX (see Google web toolkit for the detail of this technology). (…)
Example-Critiquing Interface for Apartment Search
A crucial element in consumer electronic commerce is a catalog tool that not only finds the product for the user, but also convinces him that he has made the best choice. We have examined the performance of such tools on a variety of tasks involving selection and tradeoff. The studies clearly show that example-based search (…)
Vacation Planning System
We have developed and implemented an online vacation planning prototype that helps users in the vacation packages selection process. Two algorithms were implemented, one for finding packages that satisfy user requirements, the other one for computing the list of values that the user can further select for each of the vacation attributes. Easy-to-understand visualizations are (…)
SmartClient Travel Planning System
Travel products are complex, involving combining flights, car rental, and hotels. Applying our technology developed for general electronic catalogs, we have successfully implemented a travel planning system, enabling customers to view a large selection of flights, search specific trips using their personal criteria, and plan their trips integrating car rentals and hotel accommodations. Run this (…)