Tanushree Mitra

Building Human Values into Recommender Systems: An Interdisciplinary Synthesis

2023 · ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems

Recommender systems are the algorithms which select, filter, and personalize content across many of the world's largest platforms and apps. As such, their positive and negative effects on individuals and on societies have been extensively …

Investigating Characteristics of Media Recommendation Solicitation in r/ifyoulikeblank

2024 · Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

Despite the existence of search-based recommender systems like Google, Netflix, and Spotify, online users sometimes may turn to crowdsourced recommendations in places like the r/ifyoulikeblank subreddit. In this exploratory study, we probe why users go …