Unobtrusive Dynamic Modelling of TV Program Preferences in a Household

Elena Vildjiounaite, Vesa Kyllönen, Tero Hannula, Petteri Alahuhta

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    Abstract

    Majority of recommender systems require explicit user interaction (ranking of movies and TV programs and/or their metadata, such as genres, actors etc), which requires user time and effort. Furthermore, often such ranking is done separately by each person, while merging these manually acquired preferences in multi-user environments remains largely unsolved problem. This work presents a method to learn a model of multi-user environment in intelligent home from implicit interactions: the choices which family members make together and separately. In tests on TV viewing histories of twenty families, acquired during two months, the method has achieved prediction accuracy comparable with the accuracy of systems which require explicit user ratings: a set of TV programs, actually viewed during each test session (average set size was 2.2 programs per viewing session), was recommended among five top choices in 60% of cases on average, despite training on small data sets.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationChanging Television Environments
    Subtitle of host publication6th European Conference, EUROITV 2008, Proceedings
    EditorsManfred Tscheligi, Marianna Obrist, Artur Lugmayr
    PublisherSpringer
    Pages82-91
    ISBN (Electronic)978-3-540-69478-6
    ISBN (Print)978-3-540-69477-9
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2008
    MoE publication typeA4 Article in a conference publication
    Event6th European Conference, EUROITV 2008 - Salzburg, Austria
    Duration: 3 Jul 20084 Jul 2008

    Publication series

    SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science
    Volume5066
    ISSN0302-9743

    Conference

    Conference6th European Conference, EUROITV 2008
    Abbreviated titleEUROITV 2008
    Country/TerritoryAustria
    CitySalzburg
    Period3/07/084/07/08

    Keywords

    • smart home
    • TV recommender system
    • user modelling
    • intelligent user service
    • user needs

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