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We're Still Doing It (All) Wrong: Recommender Systems, Fifteen Years Later
Alan Said, Maria Soledad Pera, Michael D. Ekstrand
In 2011, Xavier Amatriain sounded the alarm: recommender systems research was "doing it all wrong" [1]. His critique, rooted in statistical misinterpretation and methodological sho…
Impacts of Mainstream-Driven Algorithms on Recommendations for Children Across Domains: A Reproducibility Study
Robin Ungruh, Alejandro BellogÃn, Dominik Kowald +1
Children are often exposed to items curated by recommendation algorithms. Yet, research seldom considers children as a user group, and when it does, it is anchored on datasets wher…
De-centering the (Traditional) User: Multistakeholder Evaluation of Recommender Systems
Robin Burke, Gediminas Adomavicius, Toine Bogers +7
Multistakeholder recommender systems are those that account for the impacts and preferences of multiple groups of individuals, not just the end users receiving recommendations. Due…
Ah, that's the great puzzle: On the Quest of a Holistic Understanding of the Harms of Recommender Systems on Children
Robin Ungruh, Maria Soledad Pera
Children come across various media items online, many of which are selected by recommender systems (RS) primarily designed for adults. The specific nature of the content selected b…