Description: ImpactRS 2019 - The 1st Workshop on the Impact of Recommender Systems co-located with ACM RecSys 2019
Co-located with the 13th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems , 19th September 2019, Copenhagen, Denmark.
13-May-2019: Prof. Joe Konstan confirmed as keynote speaker for the workshop.
The proceedings of the workshop are available at CEUR-WS.org (Volume 2462) Keynote Recommending for Impact: Intentions, Algorithms, and Metrics ( slides ) Abstract: What does it mean to recommend for impact? Where are there tensions between the interests of the recommender operator and the interests of the user? Can we measure the impact of a recommendation, or a recommender algorithm? And how can we optimize algorithms to improve impact? This talk takes a long look at the field of recommender systems, incl