OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Empirical analysis of session-based recommendation algorithms	49
The relationship between user types and gamification designs	43
Interplay between upsampling and regularization for provider fairness in recommender systems	34
A flexible framework for evaluating user and item fairness in recommender systems	30
Activity recognition using wearable sensors for tracking the elderly	30
Research directions in session-based and sequential recommendation	25
The effects of controllability and explainability in a social recommender system	25
Generating post hoc review-based natural language justifications for recommender systems	23
Exploring author gender in book rating and recommendation	21
“Knowing me, knowing you”: personalized explanations for a music recommender system	20
Deploying a robotic positive psychology coach to improve college students’ psychological well-being	18
Toward neuroadaptive support technologies for improving digital reading: a passive BCI-based assessment of mental workload imposed by text difficulty and presentation speed during reading	18
Automatic generation and recommendation of personalized challenges for gamification	17
Personality-based approach for tailoring persuasive mental health applications	16
EvoRecSys: Evolutionary framework for health and well-being recommender systems	15
Potential and effects of personalizing gameful fitness applications using behavior change intentions and Hexad user types	15
Personalized home-care support for the elderly: a field experience with a social robot at home	14
Development of measurement instrument for visual qualities of graphical user interface elements (VISQUAL): a test in the context of mobile game icons	14
Fairness in recommender systems: research landscape and future directions	14
Myrror: a platform for holistic user modeling	13
Multimodal modeling of collaborative problem-solving facets in triads	12
Improving accountability in recommender systems research through reproducibility	12
Using autoencoders for session-based job recommendations	11
Meta-User2Vec model for addressing the user and item cold-start problem in recommender systems	11
Effects of adapting to user pitch on rapport perception, behavior, and state with a social robotic learning companion	11

BARGAIN: behavioral affective rule-based games adaptation interface–towards emotionally intelligent games: application on a virtual reality environment for socio-moral development	10
Personalized task difficulty adaptation based on reinforcement learning	10
NFC: a deep and hybrid item-based model for item cold-start recommendation	9
Introducing CARESSER: A framework for in situ learning robot social assistance from expert knowledge and demonstrations	9
A novel group recommender system for domain-independent decision support customizing a grouping genetic algorithm	9
The role of transparency in multi-stakeholder educational recommendations	9
Recommendations for marathon runners: on the application of recommender systems and machine learning to support recreational marathon runners	8
An adaptive decision-making system supported on user preference predictions for human–robot interactive communication	8
An automated system recommending background music to listen to while working	7
Modeling the behavior of persons with mild cognitive impairment or Alzheimer’s for intelligent environment simulation	7
Effects and challenges of using a nutrition assistance system: results of a long-term mixed-method study	7
Theory-based habit modeling for enhancing behavior prediction in behavior change support systems	6
Personalised socially assistive robot for cardiac rehabilitation: Critical reflections on long-term interactions in the real world	5
Personality-targeted persuasive gamified systems: exploring the impact of application domain on the effectiveness of behaviour change strategies	5
Measuring and modeling context-dependent preferences for hearing aid settings	5
Improving cold-start recommendations using item-based stereotypes	5
Personality expression and recognition in Chinese language usage	5
Supporting users in finding successful matches in reciprocal recommender systems	4
A pharmaceutical therapy recommender system enabling shared decision-making	4
Embarrassingly shallow auto-encoders for dynamic collaborative filtering	4
A dichotomic approach to adaptive interaction for socially assistive robots	4
Viewer types in game live streams: questionnaire development and validation	4
Dynamic session-based music recommendation using information retrieval techniques	4
Preface to the special issue on fair, accountable, and transparent recommender systems	4
Considering temporal aspects in recommender systems: a survey	4
Personalized rehabilitation for children with cerebral palsy	4
Safe, effective and explainable drug recommendation based on medical data integration	4
Use of topical and temporal profiles and their hybridisation for content-based recommendation	3
Device personalization for heterogeneous populations: leveraging physician expertise and national population data to identify medical device patient user groups	3
Intra-list similarity and human diversity perceptions of recommendations: the details matter	3
Modelling and predicting an individual’s perception of advertising appeal	3
Domain-based Latent Personal Analysis and its use for impersonation detection in social media	3
Modeling users’ heterogeneous taste with diversified attentive user profiles	3
A human-centered decentralized architecture and recommendation engine in SIoT	3
Improving session-based recommendation with contrastive learning	3
Rank-sensitive proportional aggregations in dynamic recommendation scenarios	3
Adapting approaching proxemics of a service robot based on physical user behavior and user feedback	2
From perception to action using observed actions to learn gestures	2
Transferring recommendations through privacy user models across domains	2
Empathy as an engaging strategy in social robotics: a pilot study	2
What we see is what we do: a practical Peripheral Vision-Based HMM framework for gaze-enhanced recognition of actions in a medical procedural task	2
Online convex combination of ranking models	2
Dirichlet–Luce choice model for learning from interactions	2
How do item features and user characteristics affect users’ perceptions of recommendation serendipity? A cross-domain analysis	2
Fair performance-based user recommendation in eCoaching systems	2
Clustering of conversational bandits with posterior sampling for user preference learning and elicitation	2
Eye-tracking-based personality prediction with recommendation interfaces	2
Preface to the Special Issue on user modeling for personalized interaction with music	2
Scalable stream-based recommendations with random walks on incremental graph of sequential interactions with implicit feedback	2
A serious game to extract Hofstede’s cultural dimensions at the individual level	2

Design, development, and evaluation of an interactive personalized social robot to monitor and coach post-stroke rehabilitation exercises	2
Beyond binary correctness: Classification of students’ answers in learning systems	2
Gaze-based predictive models of deep reading comprehension	2