Psychology-informed Recommender Systems

In the past twenty years, research on recommender systems has emerged as a growing field within computer science (Ricci et al., 2011). The emergence of online marketplaces, online social networks, online collaboration platforms, and online social information systems (Caverlee et al., 2010) has created a need to support users with recommendations to help them cope with the increase of information and items online (Liu et al., 2014).

A large amount of work exists that has tackled recommender systems research from a broad range of perspectives. Resources like the Recommender Systems Handbook (Ricci et...