Spring 2006 DLF Forum: Melvyl Recommender Project,
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3 April, 2006
Does this method work?
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Yes:
especially “serendipitous” discovery
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But…again we are not our users.
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Testing this method now (April 2006).
Similar
questions:
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Useful for academic audiences?
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Subject naïve vs. subject expert?
Focusing only on circulation-based recommendations.
Task-based, again using graduate and undergraduate students at UC Berkeley as participants.