Psychological Aspects in Retrieval and Recommendation
Some notes on the Paper “Psychological Aspects in Retrieval and Recommendation” published in SIGIR 2025, together with its slides available at: https://github.com/aisocietylab/Psy-IR-RecSys-SIGIR25/tree/main. The tutorial focuses on three key psychological topics and sheds light on how they influence and manifest in the IR and RS ecosystem: cognitive architectures, cognitive effects and biases, and personality and affect. Motivation Understanding human cognition, decision-making processes, and psychological factors is important to enable user-centric retrieval and recommendation systems. ...