On the Importance of Considering Country-specific Aspects on the Online-Market: An Example of Music Recommendation Considering Country-Specific Mainstream

dc.contributor.author Bauer, Christine
dc.contributor.author Schedl, Markus
dc.date.accessioned 2017-12-28T01:54:38Z
dc.date.available 2017-12-28T01:54:38Z
dc.date.issued 2018-01-03
dc.description.abstract In the field of music recommender systems, country-specific aspects have received little attention, although it is known that music perception and preferences are shaped by culture; and culture varies across countries. Based on the LFM-1b dataset (including 53,258 users from 47 countries), we show that there are significant country-specific differences in listeners’ music consumption behavior with respect to the most popular artists listened to. Results indicate that, for instance, Finnish users’ listening behavior is farther away from the global mainstream, while United States’ listeners are close to the global mainstream. Relying on rating prediction experiments, we tailor recommendations to a user’s level of preference for mainstream (defined on a global level and on a country level) and the user’s country. Results suggest that, in terms of rating prediction accuracy, a combination of these two filtering strategies works particularly well for users of countries far away from the global mainstream.
dc.format.extent 10 pages
dc.identifier.doi 10.24251/HICSS.2018.461
dc.identifier.isbn 978-0-9981331-1-9
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10125/50349
dc.language.iso eng
dc.relation.ispartof Proceedings of the 51st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
dc.rights Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subject Global, International, and Cross-Cultural Issues in IS
dc.subject country, culture, mainstream, music recommender system, rating prediction
dc.title On the Importance of Considering Country-specific Aspects on the Online-Market: An Example of Music Recommendation Considering Country-Specific Mainstream
dc.type Conference Paper
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