Collaborative filtering (CF) techniques have proved to be a powerful and popular component of modern recommender systems.
Common approaches such as user-based and item-based methods generate predictions from the past ...
Recently the world of the web has become more social and more real-time. Facebook and Twitter are perhaps the exemplars of a new generation of social, real-time web services
and we believe these types of service provide ...
Collaborative or “Social” filtering has been successfully deployed over the years as a technique for analysing large amounts of user-preference knowledge to predict interesting items for an individual user. The black-box ...
In this paper we describe the results of a live-user study to demonstrate the benefits of using the social search utility HeyStaks, a novel approach to Web search that combines ideas from personalization and social networking ...
Recent research has highlighted the inherently collaborative nature of many Web search tasks, even though collaborative
searching is not supported by mainstream search engines. In this paper, we examine the activity of ...
The explosive growth of online social networks in recent times has presented a powerful source of information to be utilised in personalised recommendations. Unsurprisingly there has already been a large body of work ...
Although collaborative searching is not supported by mainstream search engines, recent research has high- lighted the inherently collaborative nature of many web search tasks. In this paper, we describe HeyStaks ...
While web search tasks are often inherently collaborative in nature, many search engines do not explicitly support collaboration
during search. In this paper, we describe HeyStaks (www.heystaks.com), a system that provides ...
The social web is a mass of activity, petabytes of data are generated yearly. The social web has proven to be a great resource for new recommender system techniques and ideas. However it would appear that typically these ...
For all the success of mainstream search engines there are a number of opportunities for improving on the conventional Web search user experience. In this short paper we consider the default assumption that search is ...