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The television as a multi-user device presents some specificities with respect to personalisation. Recommendations should be provided both per-viewers as well as for a group. Recognising the inadequacy of traditional user modelling techniques with the constraint of television’s lazy watching usage patterns, this paper presents a new recommendation mechanism based on anonymous user preferences and dynamic filtering of recommendations. Results from an initial user study indicate this mechanism was able to provide content recommendations to individual users within a multi-user environment with a high level of user satisfaction and without the need for user authentication or individual preference profile creation.
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Bonnefoy, D., Bouzid, M., Lhuillier, N., Mercer, K. (2007). “More Like This” or “Not for Me”: Delivering Personalised Recommendations in Multi-user Environments. In: Conati, C., McCoy, K., Paliouras, G. (eds) User Modeling 2007. UM 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4511. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73078-1_12
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