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Comealong: Empowering Experience-Sharing through Social Networks
1. Empowering Experience-Sharing through Social Networks
Beatrice Valeri, Marcos Baez, Fabio Casati
University of Trento, Italy
{valeri, baez, casati}@disi.unitn.it
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5. Experience-sharing
Do current systems really
empower our experiences?
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6. Experience-sharing
finding activities you really like
Do current systems really
empower our experiences?
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7. Experience-sharing
finding activities you really like with the right people
Do current systems really
empower our experiences?
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8. Experience-sharing
finding activities you really like with the right people without that filling that your missing out things
Do current systems really
empower our experiences?
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9. Survey
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?? • Sources of event info
• Aspects considered
when deciding
• Ability to find
interesting events
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10. Survey
?
?? • Sources of event info
• Aspects considered
when deciding
• Ability to find
interesting events
~150 participants
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11. RESULTS Survey
• Sources of event info
Invitation / Information from
Friends
• Aspects considered
when deciding
44% often look at who goes
to decide
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12. RESULTS Survey
• Ability to find
interesting events
I’d like to have some way to
find interesting things to do
• Sources vs ability to
find events
People using the web feel
the need for better tools
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13. Experiment
• 75 restaurants around
Trentino - top TA
• rating 1-5 from local
people
• friends from Facebook
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18. Comparing to TA
The population has a
significant impact
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19. A deeper look
• Defined 4 different
networks
- overall
- friends
- similar
- similar friends
• Evaluated how effective
they are to recommend
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20. Metrics
• A/B testing (70-30) per
user
• Precision: + finding out
something interesting
to do
• Recall: + reduce feeling
of missing out things
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21. Results
• Similarity and friendship
show promising results
• features for similarity
should be explored
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27. What’s next
• Run a user-study with
initial subjects
• Run experiments in
other countries
(Paraguay, Russia)
• Pilot involving local
businesses
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