Comealong: Empowering Experience-Sharing through Social Networks

Empowering Experience-Sharing through Social Networks

Beatrice Valeri, Marcos Baez, Fabio Casati

{valeri, baez, casati}@disi.unitn.it

University of Trento, Italy

Tuesday, October 16, 12

Experience-sharing

Do current systems really empower our experiences?

Experience-sharing

finding activities you really like

Experience-sharing

finding activities you really like with the right people

Experience-sharing

finding activities you really like with the right people without that filling that your missing out things

Survey

• Sources of event info

• Aspects considered when deciding

• Ability to find interesting events

Survey

~150 participants

Survey

RESULTS

Invitation / Information from Friends

44% often look at who goes to decide

Survey

• Sources vs ability to find events

I’d like to have some way to find interesting things to do

People using the web feel the need for better tools

RESULTS

Experiment

• 75 restaurants around Trentino - top TA

• rating 1-5 from local people

• friends from Facebook

Experiment

Dataset

• 195 users

• 1118 ratings

• 214 comments

Comparing to TA

The population has a significant impact

A deeper look• Defined 4 different

networks

- overall

- friends

- similar

- similar friends

• Evaluated how effective they are to recommend

Metrics

• A/B testing (70-30) per user

• Precision: + finding out something interesting to do

• Recall: + reduce feeling of missing out things

Results

• Similarity and friendship show promising results

• features for similarity should be explored

Screenshots

What’s next

• Run a user-study with initial subjects

• Run experiments in other countries (Paraguay, Russia)

• Pilot involving local businesses

thanks, any questions?http://lifeparticipation.org

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