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There's certainly a lot of research trying to incorporate things like this into recommendations, but it never really made it to mature products (apart from some
by halflings 10y ago
There's certainly a lot of research trying to incorporate things like this into recommendations, but it never really made it to mature products (apart from some experiments on last.fm, 8tracks, etc.)
Spotify tries to accommodate this by offering curated playlists based on moods, but knowing a user's mood to make that type of recommendations is hard. (it's a bit intrusive for a music streaming service to ask you how you feel every time you start it up)
- vidarh 10y agoIf I could start a service, and trust a skip to indicate "no, you got it wrong, try something closer to the last track I didn't skip", it could often narrow in fairly quickly. Perhaps offer a few more alternatives for skipping that'd indicate reason. E.g. "want something more up-tempo/downtempo/more cheerful/sadder".
- Drdrdrq 10y agoAssuming you know what you want of course. But the recommender system could have a mode where it learns which taste you like based on time, number of unread mails in your inbox, skipped songs and moon cycle. :)
- vidarh 10y agoBut the point is you don't need to know what you want. You only need to think you do. You can let the system adjust what the buttons means too, based on your subsequent behaviour.