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Person to Person Trust Factors in Word of Mouth Recommendation

Heath, Mr Tom and Motta, Professor Enrico and Petre, Dr Marian (2006) Person to Person Trust Factors in Word of Mouth Recommendation. In Proceedings CHI2006 Workshop on Reinventing Trust, Collaboration, and Compliance in Social Systems (Reinvent06), Montreal, Canada.

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Online recommender systems and review sites do not currently reflect how people seek information using social networks of people they know. Developing systems that overcome this limitation requires studies of how people choose sources for recommendations and assess their trustworthiness. This paper presents the findings of such a study and discusses their implications for search and recommender applications.

Keywords:trust, word of mouth, known person recommendation, social networks, search
Subjects:Student Papers
AKT Challenges > Knowledge reuse
AKT Challenges > Knowledge acquisition
ID Code:446
Deposited By:Heath, Mr Tom
Deposited On:22 March 2006
Alternative Locations:http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/tom/publications/heath-motta-petre-reinvent2006-person-to-person-trust-factors.pdf

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