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WiCa, Wireless & Cable, www.wica.intec.ugent.be Gaston Crommenlaan 8 box 201, 9050 Ghent, Belgium Ghent University, Department of Information Technology Simon Dooms [email protected] Toon De Pessemier [email protected] Luc Martens [email protected] Improving IMDb Movie Recommendations with Interactive Settings and Filters MIDDLEWARE BACK END FRONT END Google Chrome extension Webserver API HPC infrastructure CONTROL RESULTS DATASET IMDb public ratings & MovieTweetings dataset Interactive settings Genre filters User-specific, weighted hybrid recommendation strategy Machine learning Online public experiment >150 days active >80 users Users enjoy the enhanced movie recommendation experience Users’ interaction behavior is unique MyMediaLite Try it out at themoviebrain.com MovieBrain Manual user involvement and user-specific strategies are the future. Background processes User Data Caching Logging API Request controller HPC
