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To flip or not to flip: conformity effect across cultures

In group decision-making, we can frequently observe that an individual adapts their behavior or belief to fit in with the group’s …

Bruce Ferwerda, Christine Bauer

Report on the 1st Workshop on the Perspectives on the Evaluation of Recommender Systems (PERSPECTIVES 2021) at RecSys 2021

Evaluation is a central step when it comes to developing, optimizing, and deploying recommender systems. The PERSPECTIVES 2021 workshop …

Eva Zangerle, Christine Bauer, Alan Said

Perspectives on the Evaluation of Recommender Systems (PERSPECTIVES)

Evaluation is a cornerstone in the process of developing and deploying recommender systems. The PERSPECTIVES workshop brought together …

Eva Zangerle, Christine Bauer, Alan Said

What is fair? Exploring the artists' perspective on the fairness of music streaming platforms

Music streaming platforms are currently among the main sources of music consumption, and the embedded recommender systems significantly …

Andrés Ferraro, Xavier Serra, Christine Bauer

Multi-Method Evaluation of Adaptive Systems

When evaluating personalized or adaptive systems, we frequently rely on one single evaluation objective and one single method. This …

Christine Bauer

Break the Loop: Gender Imbalance in Music Recommenders

As recommender systems play an important role in everyday life, there is an increasing pressure that such systems are fair. Besides …

Andrés Ferraro, Xavier Serra, Christine Bauer

Ratings in, rankings out. Keep it simple, they said. But we need more than that.

Among the many viable research questions in the field of recommender systems, a frequently addressed problem is to accurately predict …

Christine Bauer

Conformity Behavior in Group Playlist Creation

A strong research record has evidenced that individuals tend to conform with a group’s majority opinion. In contrast to existing …

Christine Bauer, Bruce Ferwerda

Multi-Method Evaluation: Leveraging Multiple Methods to Answer What You Were Looking For

Research in the field of information retrieval and recommendation mostly focuses on one single evaluation method and one single quality …

Christine Bauer

Ethics Guidelines in Music Information Retrieval

Christine Bauer, Luis Cruz, Andrés Ferraro, Andre Holzapfel, Luis Joglar, Lorenzo Porcaro, Courtney Reed, Sertan Şentürk, Gissel Velarde

Allowing for equal opportunities for artists in music recommendation

Promoting diversity in the music sector is widely discussed on the media. While the major problem may lie deep in our society, music …

Christine Bauer

Tastalyzer: Audiovisual exploration of urban and rural variations in music taste

We present a browsing interface that allows for an audiovisual exploration of regional music taste around the world. We exploit a total …

Christine Bauer, Markus Schedl, Vera Angerer, Stefan Wegenkittl

Tastalyzer: Audiovisual exploration of urban and rural variations in music taste

Leveraging Multi-Method Evaluation for Multi-Stakeholder Settings

In this paper, we focus on recommendation settings with multiple stakeholders with possibly varying goals and interests, and argue that …

Christine Bauer, Eva Zangerle

Cross-country user connections in an online social network for music

Social connections and cultural aspects play important roles in shaping an individual’s preferences. For instance, people tend to …

Christine Bauer, Markus Schedl

The potential of the confluence of theoretical and algorithmic modeling in music recommendation

The task of a music recommender system is to predict what music item a particular user would like to listen to next. This position …

Christine Bauer

A cross-country investigation of user connection patterns in online social networks

Given the global expansion, the borderless nature, and the social impact of social media, this paper provides an examination of users’ …

Christine Bauer, Markus Schedl

Investigating cross-country relationship between users' social ties and music mainstreaminess

We investigate the complex relationship between the fac- tors (i) preference for music mainstream, (ii) social ties in an online music …

Christine Bauer, Markus Schedl

UMAP 2018 Intelligent User-Adapted Interfaces: Design and Multi-Modal Evaluation (IUadaptMe) Workshop Chairs' Welcome & Organization

Ilknur Celik, Ilaria Torre, Frosina Koceva, Christine Bauer, Eva Zangerle, Bart Knijnenburg

The effects of real-world events on music listening behavior: an intervention time series analysis

We approach the research question whether real-world events, such as sport events or product launches, influence music consumption …

Markus Schedl, Eelco Wiechert, Christine Bauer

Information imbalance and responsibility in recommender systems

In the field of music recommender systems, country-specific aspects have received little attention, although it is known that music …

Christine Bauer, Eva Zangerle

An Open Model for Researching the Role of Culture in Online Self-Disclosure

The analysis of consumers’ personal information (PI) is a significant source to learn about consumers. In online settings, many …

Christine Bauer, Katharina Sophie Schmid, Christine Strauss

nominated for Best Paper Award

On the importance of considering country-specific aspects on the online-market: an example of music recommendation considering country-specific mainstream

Christine Bauer, Markus Schedl

What Do We Really Talk About When We Talk About Context in Pervasive Computing: A Review and Exploratory Analysis

At the heart of ubiquitous and pervasive computing is the integration of semantically rich contextual information into systems that …

Alexander Novotny, Christine Bauer

Introducing global and regional mainstreaminess for improving personalized music recommendation

The music mainstreaminess of a user reflects how strong a user’s listening preferences correspond to those of the larger …

Markus Schedl, Christine Bauer

Best Paper Award

Introducing global and regional mainstreaminess for improving personalized music recommendation

A Location-Based Educational Game for Understanding the Traveling Salesman Problem: A Case Study

Due to the high potential of digital media to support learning processes and outcomes, educational games have gained wide acceptance …

Simone Kriglstein, Mario Brandmüller, Margit Pohl, Christine Bauer

Online Music Listening Culture of Kids and Adolescents: Listening Analysis and Music Recommendation Tailored to the Young

In this paper, we analyze a large dataset of user-generated music listening events from Last.fm, focusing on users aged 6 to 18 years. …

Markus Schedl, Christine Bauer

Distance- and Rank-based Music Mainstreaminess Measurement

A music listener’s mainstreaminess indicates the extent to which her listening preferences correspond to those of the population …

Markus Schedl, Christine Bauer

Introducing Surprise and Opposition by Design in Recommender Systems

There is a long tradition in recommender systems research to evaluate systems using quantitative performance measures on fixed …

Christine Bauer, Markus Schedl

Music Recommender Systems: Challenges and Opportunities for Non-Superstar Artists

Music Recommender Systems (MRS) are important drivers in music industry and are widely adopted by music platforms. Other than most MRS …

Christine Bauer, Marta Kholodylo, Christine Strauss

Taking responsibility for online self-disclosure: the thin line between a company's user orientation and user surveillance

Companies using the Internet for their business to consumers (business-to-consumer; B2C) frequently require users to disclose personal …

Christine Bauer

The dark side of Web 2.0: from self-marketing to self-destruction of music artists

Web 2.0 and social media have triggered radical changes in the very fundament of music business. In times before the Internet era, the …

Christine Bauer, Christine Strauss

Aesthetic Measures for Document Layouts: Operationalization and Analysis in the Context of Marketing Brochures

Designing layouts that are perceived as pleasant by the viewer is no easy task: it requires a wide variety of skills, including a sense …

David Schölgens, Sven Müller, Christine Bauer, Roman Tilly, Detlef Schoder

nominated for Best Paper Award nominated for Best Student Paper Award

Perceived risks and benefits of online self-disclosure: affected by culture? A meta-analysis of cultural differences as moderators of privacy calculus in person-to-crowd settings

Disclosing personal information to a crowd, with all its risks and benefits, is almost ubiquitous in Web 2.0. Drawing on privacy …

Christine Bauer, Michael Schiffinger

Solving the Battle of First-Authorship: Using Interactive Technology to Highlight Contributions

Human-Computer Interaction research is traditionally collaborative. However, the current authorship model – i.e., placing authors’ …

AC BD, Christine Bauer, Afsaneh Doryab

Analysis of motivation strategies in running tracking applications

In the last years, a large number of sport and fitness applications for smartphones were developed for supporting a healthy lifestyle …

Christine Bauer, Simone Kriglstein

Crowdsourcing in Logistics: Concepts and Applications Using the Social Crowd

The introduction of crowdsourcing offers numerous business opportunities. In recent years, manifold forms of crowdsourcing have emerged …

Andreas Mladenow, Christine Bauer, Christine Strauss

Collaborative Shopping with the Crowd

The ubiquity of information and communication technologies (ICT) stimulate collaborative shopping and bring together customers with …

Andreas Mladenow, Christine Bauer, Christine Strauss

Collaboration and Locality in Crowdsourcing

As novel forms of crowdsourcing emerge on the market, we emphasize that the important aspect of location-dependency is more complex …

Andreas Mladenow, Christine Bauer, Christine Strauss, Michal Gregus

Location-based crowdsourcing: a taxonomy of value co-creation

Andreas Mladenow, Christine Bauer, Christine Strauss, Michal Gregus

Designing a music-controlled running application: a sports science and psychological perspective

Music has long been acknowledged for its effects on participants in sports and exercise. For casual runners music may act as a …

Christine Bauer, Anna Kratschmar

Designing a music-controlled running application: a sports science and psychological perspective

Self-disclosure in online interaction: a meta-analysis

Using the Internet increasingly requires people to disclose personal information for various reasons such as establishing legitimacy, …

Christine Bauer, Michael Schiffinger

A SWOT analysis of the soft-computing paradigms SOA/SOC/Cloud combination (C-SOA) in software development

Due to their technological complexity, traditional software development paradigms are not appropriate to face the challenges in the …

Natalia Kryvinska, Christine Bauer, Christine Strauss, Michal Gregus

An Evaluation Scheme for Performance Measurement of Facebook Use: an Example of Social Organizations in Vienna

Online social networks, and Facebook in particular, have evolved from a niche to a mass phenomenon. Organizations have recognized the …

Claudia Brauer, Christine Bauer, Mario Dirlinger

SleepCompete: a smart bedside device to promote healthy sleeping habits in children

We outline SleepCompete: a bedside device that encourages and promotes healthy sleeping behaviour in families, with a particular focus …

Christine Bauer, Anne-Marie Mann

Entwicklungsstand und Entwicklungspotenziale in der Verwendung von Facebook zur Organisationskommunikation: Eine empirische Analyse von Facebook-Präsenzen sozialwirtschaftlicher Organisationen in Wien

Die Bedeutung von Facebook zur Erreichung zur Unternehmenskommunikation ist bei gewinnorientierten Unternehmen wissenschaftlich im …

Claudia Brauer, Christine Bauer, Mario Dirlinger

On the (in-)accuracy of GPS measures of smartphones: a study of running tracking applications

Sports tracking applications are increasingly available on the market, and research has recently picked up this topic. Tracking a …

Christine Bauer

Fostering collaboration by location-based crowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing is a recently developed method that relies on various alternatives of collaboration to solve problems efficiently. …

Christine Bauer, Andreas Mladenow, Christine Strauss

Reactive music: when user behavior affects sounds in real-time

It is a natural predisposition of humans to respond to the rhythmical qualities of music. Now, we turn the setting around: The music …

Christine Bauer, Florian Waldner

Reactive music: when user behavior affects sounds in real-time

Situationalization: the new road to adaptive digital-out-of-home advertising

‘Digital out-of-home advertising’ (DOOHA) leverages digital screens to reach out to consumers at any time and anywhere in public space. …

Peter Lasinger, Christine Bauer

Psychology of Ownership and Asset Defense: Why People Value their Personal Information Beyond Privacy

Analysts, investors and entrepreneurs have for long recognized the value of comprehensive user profiles. While there is a market for …

Sarah Spiekermann, Jana Korunovska, Christine Bauer

CPDP 2013 Multidisciplinary Privacy Research Award

Psychology of Ownership and Asset Defense: Why People Value their Personal Information Beyond Privacy

A comparison and validation of 13 context meta-models

‘Context’ is a significant element in the field of context-aware and pervasive computing. Thereby, a context meta-model defines context …

Christine Bauer

On the value of information: what Facebook users are willing to pay

In the age of Web 2.0 users contribute to platforms success by providing personal information by actively uploading information (e.g., …

Christine Bauer, Jana Korunovska, Sarah Spiekermann

Interactive digital signage: an innovative service and its future strategies

Digital signage is an economically promising field in advertising. Yet, it is a hardly researched field; first empirical attempts …

Christine Bauer, Paul Dohmen, Christine Strauss

Context adaptivity as enabler for meaningful pervasive advertising

Socio-demographic user profiles are currently regarded as the most convenient base for successful personalized advertising. However, …

Christine Bauer

Conceptualizing context for adaptive pervasive commerce

In retail, demographics are currently regarded as the most convenient base for successful personalized marketing. However, signs point …

Christine Bauer, Sarah Spiekermann

A Networked Ubiquitous Computing Environment for Damage Prevention: A Decision Support Framework for the Insurance Sector

This paper focuses on identifying and analyzing a potential innovative application for the insurance industry through the use of …

Christine Strauss, Christian Stummer, Christine Bauer, Alexander Trieb

Students' View on Instant Online Feedback for Presentations

This paper presents an empirical study investigating the use of instant online feedback on face-to-face presentations. This innovative …

Kathrin Figl, Christine Bauer, Simone Kriglstein

The Student View on Online Peer Review

Peer review is used as an effective quality assurance measure in many contexts, including science, business, programming or education. …

Christine Bauer, Kathrin Figl, Michael Derntl, Peter Paul Beran, Sonja Kabicher

Förderung "virtueller" Kommunikationskompetenzen mit Neuen Medien

Effektiv mit neuen Medien wie E-Mail und Chat oder via Online-Plattform zu kommunizieren ist eine generische Kompetenz, die für den …

Kathrin Figl, Renate Motschnig-Pitrik, Christine Bauer

Der Einsatz von Online-Peer-Reviews als kollaborative Lernform

Peer-Reviews leisten einen wertvollen Beitrag für die Qualitätssicherung in Unternehmen sowie im Wissenschaftsbetrieb und haben auf …

Christine Bauer, Kathrin Figl, Michael Derntl, Peter Paul Beran, Sonja Kabicher

nominated for Best Paper Award

Active listening in written online communication: a case study in a course on soft skills for computer scientists

‘Active listening’ is a well-known ingredient in contexts that involve gathering information and solving problems. …

Christine Bauer, Kathrin Figl

Online Active Listening and Media Competence

The highly recognized concept of ‘‘active listening’’ is widely adopted in contexts that involve gathering …

Kathrin Figl, Christine Bauer

Best Research Paper Award

Online Active Listening and Media Competence

Motivational Aspects in Technology-Enhanced Courses

This paper presents a quantitative study on students’ motivation in technology-enhanced courses. Four technology-enhanced courses …

Kathrin Figl, Christine Bauer

Differences of online and face-to-face peer reviews regarding type and quality

Peer reviews are used in a wide variety of disciplines. Nevertheless research investigating the impact of technology on peer-reviewing …

Christine Bauer, Kathrin Figl

Online versus Face-to-Face Peer Team Reviews

Peer-reviewing is gaining importance as didactic technique in computer science courses. Through reviewing their peers, students develop …

Kathrin Figl, Christine Bauer, Jürgen Mangler, Renate Motschnig-Pitrik

Factors Guiding Your Way to Success in Hybrid Learning

In this paper we provide a record of relevant factors for the reasonable selection of learning settings. Our work aims to help …

Christine Bauer, Michael Kovacs

A CEWebS Component for Facilitating Online Cooperative Brainstorming Processes

Drawing your ideas to a piece of paper is easy, but drawing onto the screen using the mouse appears to be quite complicated. This …

Jürgen Mangler, Christine Bauer

A CEWebS Component for Facilitating Online Cooperative Brainstorming Processes

Computer-Based Trainings in Action: A product oriented evaluation of the CBT Hyperbook Privatrecht and the examination of factors influencing the use of CBTs

Technology acceptance is a heavily discussed field – nowadays, especially in the context of multimedia products. This paper is about …

Wolfgang Zartler, Christine Bauer