Seonglae ChoFuture engagement
How can we define and predict user receptivity?
- Engagement-centric receptivity
- Effort-centric receptivity
- Emendation-centric receptivity
Prediction
Diversity based and engagement based predictors are better than random. Important features differ across different receptivity measures
Result
Effort based receptivity is most predictive of future engagement (long term engagement) while Engagement receptivity represents more about short term engagement.
Investigating Listeners’ Responses to Divergent Recommendations - Spotify Research
Recommender systems offer great opportunity not only for users to discover new content, but also for the providers of that content to find new audience, followers, and fans. Users often come to a recommender system with certain expectations about what it will recommend to them, and a recommender system that is optimized for creating opportunities... View Article
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