Inproceedings,
Toward a Design Space for the Recommendation of Communities
2nd Workshop on Recommender Systems and the Social Web, 2, page 44-47. (September 2010)
Abstract
Recent years have seen an explosion in the number of on-line communities; a person looking for a community for some purpose may have hundreds to choose from. Helping users make such choices therefore constitutes an interesting appli- cation area for recommender systems, which has so far been explored only sporadically. To facilitate further exploration of this area, we discuss the following questions: What goals can a user be pursuing when looking for a community? What sorts of information about communities can be available that could be used by a recommender system? The answers to the second question are based on a systematic examination of a sample of 15 communities on three web-based platforms.
