My current job has a lot to do with personalisation and recommendation systems. No such algorithm that makes any non-trivial recommendations will ever be 100% accurate. But then again, if a friend recommends you something, is it always interesting for you? Probably not, but if you tell your friend she will probably learn and try not to make the same mistake.
That's exactly what I've learnt from user research, that people seem to mind less when the computer is wrong if they have a way to express their objections (and hopefully "train" the algorithm for better results in the future). Unfortunately, Amazon doesn't seem to have a quick link for rejecting recommendations (or if they do, it's certainly not been prominent enough for me to notice). Regards, Alex On 10/25/07, Kevin Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The book in question was also written by Alan Cooper. Looks more like a data > normalization problem. > > -Kevin Fox > > > On 10/23/07, Jens Meiert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > "As someone who has purchased or rated books by Alan Cooper, you might > > > like to know that 'BRAVERY AWARDS FOR AERIAL COMBAT: Stories behind > > > the award of the CGM (Flying)' will be released on November 1, 2007." > > > > A book on seduction might perfect that. > > > > -- > > Jens Meiert > > http://meiert.com/en/ > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________________________________________ > > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Unsubscribe ................ http://gamma.ixda.org/unsubscribe > > List Guidelines ............ http://gamma.ixda.org/guidelines > > List Help .................. http://gamma.ixda.org/help > > > ________________________________________________________________ > *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* > February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA > Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://gamma.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://gamma.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://gamma.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://gamma.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://gamma.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://gamma.ixda.org/help
