Designing Usable Interfaces for TV Recommender Systems

Abstract

To ensure that TV recommender systems become successful, much attention should be paid to the user interface. This chapter describes an iterative design process in which users were involved from the onset. It was performed to design a user interface for a TV recommender system and to develop guidelines for the design of such user interfaces. The focus of the design process lies on those aspects that are specific to recommendations: presenting predicted interests, presenting explanations of the predictions, and ways in which users can provide feedback. The design process with its various analysis, design and evaluation methods as well as the resulting guidelines are discussed in detail