[IxDA Discuss] Amazon equates interaction design with aerial combat

[Alexander Baxevanis]

My current job has a lot to do with personalisation and recommendation
systems. No such algorithm that makes any non-trivial recommendations
will ever be 100% accurate. But then again, if a friend recommends you
something, is it always interesting for you? Probably not,  but if you
tell your friend she will probably learn and try not to make the same
mistake.

That's exactly what I've learnt from user research, that people seem
to mind less when the computer is wrong if they have a way to express
their objections (and hopefully "train" the algorithm for better
results in the future). Unfortunately, Amazon doesn't seem to have a
quick link for rejecting recommendations (or if they do, it's
certainly not been prominent enough for me to notice).

Regards,
Alex

On 10/25/07, Kevin Fox <kevin at fury.com> wrote:
> The book in question was also written by Alan Cooper. Looks more like a data
> normalization problem.
>
> -Kevin Fox
>
>
> On 10/23/07, Jens Meiert <jens.meiert at erde3.com> wrote:
> >
> > > "As someone who has purchased or rated books by Alan Cooper, you might
> > > like to know that 'BRAVERY AWARDS FOR AERIAL COMBAT: Stories behind
> > > the award of the CGM (Flying)' will be released on November 1, 2007."
> >
> > A book on seduction might perfect that.
> >
> > --
> > Jens Meiert
> > http://meiert.com/en/
> >
> >
> >
> >
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