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Collective Ignorance?. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Aug 2008, Pages: 124
The use of recommendation systems has become
widespread on the web - YouTube allow users to rate
videos and Amazon provide user-written book reviews.
But how reliable are these recommendation systems as
a basis for making our choices?
This book analyzes online recommendation systems from
a critical point of view. Based on existing work
within the field of social navigation, a compilation
of the weaknesses found in rating systems and written
reviews is presented. Four recommendation websites
are then analyzed in relation to the compilation of
known weaknesses.
You might end up being very sceptical to the
information online recommendation systems provide.
If your academic work is related to human-computer
interaction or if you are a system developer this
book is for you. For the academic, this book will
provide you with further insight into how social
navigation might not always work as intended and into
the weaknesses of social navigation. For the system
developer, this book will tell you how to avoid the
myriad of pitfalls found when building a
recommendation system, thus enabling you to build a
more reliable and valuable system for the user.
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