Title
Effects of Past Interactions on User Experience with Recommended Documents
Abstract
Recommender systems are commonly used in entertainment, news, e-commerce, and social media. Document recommendation is a new and under-explored application area, in which both re-finding and discovery of documents need to be supported. In this paper we provide an initial exploration of users' experience with recommended documents, with a focus on how prior interactions influence recognition and interest. Through a field study of more than 100 users, we investigate the effects of past interactions with recommended documents on users' recognition of, prior intent to open, and interest in the documents. We examined different presentations of interaction history, and the recency and richness of prior interaction. We found that presentation only influenced recognition time. Our findings also indicate that people are more likely to recognize documents they had accessed recently and to do so more quickly. Similarly, documents that people had interacted with more deeply were also more frequently and quickly recognized. However, people were more interested in older documents or those with which they had less involved interactions. This finding suggests that in addition to helping users quickly access documents they intend to re-find, document recommendation can add value in helping users discover other documents. Our results offer implications for designing document recommendation systems that help users fulfil different needs.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1145/3343413.3377977
CHIIR '20: Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval Vancouver BC Canada March, 2020
Keywords
DocType
ISBN
Document Recommendation, User Behavior, Presentation of Recommended Items, User-Document Interactions, Document Re-finding, Document Discovery
Conference
978-1-4503-6892-6
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Farnaz Jahanbakhsh130.71
Ahmed Hassan294357.64
Susan Dumais3139482130.47
Xuhai Xu410.69