Publications in peer-reviewed journals and book chapters
- Knijnenburg, B.P., & Willemsen, M.C. (2016). Inferring Capabilities of Intelligent Agents from Their External Traits. ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS) vol. 6 (4), 1-25. free access via ACM
- Willemsen, M.C., Graus, M.P, & Knijnenburg, B.P. (2016). Understanding the role of latent feature diversification on choice difficulty and satisfaction. User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction (UMUAI), vol 26 (4), 347-389 doi:10.1007/s11257-016-9178-6
- Knijnenburg, B. P., & Willemsen, M. C. (2015). Evaluating Recommender Systems with User Experiments. In F. Ricci, L. Rokach, & B. Shapira (Eds.), Recommender Systems Handbook (pp. 309–352). Springer US.link to springer
- Jameson, A., Willemsen, M. C., Felfernig, A., Gemmis, M. de, Lops, P., Semeraro, G., & Chen, L. (2015). Human Decision Making and Recommender Systems. In F. Ricci, L. Rokach, & B. Shapira (Eds.), Recommender Systems Handbook (pp. 611–648). Springer US. link to Springer
- Knijnenburg, B.P., Willemsen, M.C., Gantner, Z., Soncu, H., Newell, C. (2012). Explaining the User Experience of Recommender Systems. User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction (UMUAI), vol 22, p. 441-504, open access
- Willemsen, M.C., Böckenholt, U. & Johnson, E.J. (2011). Choice by value encoding and value construction : processes of loss aversion. Journal of Experimental Psychology. General vol. 140, no. 3, p. 303-324, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0023493
- Willemsen, M.C. & Johnson, E.J. (2011). Visiting the decision factory : observing cognition with MouselabWEB and other information acquisition methods. In M Schulte-Mecklenbeck, A. Kühberger & R. Ranyard (Eds.), A handbook of process tracing methods for decision research : a critical review and user’s guide. (pp. 19-42) New York: Psychology Press.
- Keren, G.B., Willemsen, M.C. (2009). Decision anomalies, experimenter assumptions, and participants' comprehension : revaluating the uncertainty effect. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 22(3), 301-317.
- Johnson, E.J., Schulte-Mecklenbeck, M., & Willemsen, M.C. (2008). Process models deserve process data: Comment on Brandstätter, Gigerenzer, and Hertwig (2006), Psychological Review, 115, 263-272
- Johnson, E.J., Schulte-Mecklenbeck, M., & Willemsen, M.C. (2008). Postscript: Rejoinder to Brandstätter, Gigerenzer, and Hertwig (2008), Psychological Review, 115, 272-273
- Willemsen, M.C. & Keren, G. (2004). The role of negative features in joint and separate evaluation, Journal of Behavioral Decision making, 17, 313-329
- Willemsen, M.C. & Keren, G. (2003). The meaning of indifference in choice behavior: Asymmetries in adjustments embodied in matching, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 90, 342-359
- Willemsen, M.C., & Keren, G. (2002). Negative-based prominence: The role of negative features in matching and choice. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 88, 643-666
- Willemsen, M.C. (2002). Explaining asymmetries in preference elicitation: The role of negative attributes in judgment and choice. Ph.D.Dissertation. University of Technology, Eindhoven.[full text book - pdf]
- Ridder, H. de & Willemsen, M.C. (2000). Percentage scaling: a new method for evaluating multiply impaired images. Proceedings of SPIE, vol. 3959
Publications in peer-reviewed conference proceedings
- Zhao, Q., Adomavicius, G., Harper, F. M., Willemsen, M., & Konstan, J. A. (2017). Toward Better Interactions in Recommender Systems: Cycling and Serpentining Approaches for Top-N Item Lists. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (pp. 1444–1453). New York, NY, USA: ACM. free access via ACM
- Ekstrand, M. D. & Willemsen, M.C. (2016). Behaviorism is Not Enough: Better Recommendations through Listening to Users. Accepted by the 10th ACM conference on Recommender Systems, September 2016 free access via ACM
- Radha, M., Willemsen, M.C., Boerhof, M. & IJsselsteijn, W.A. (2016). Feasibility-Tailored Recommendations for Blood Pressure Management, User modeling, adaptation and personalization : 24rd International Conference, UMAP 2016, Halifax, Canada: July 13-16 free access via ACM
- Graus, M.P. & Willemsen, M.C. (2015). Improving the user experience during cold start through choice-based preference elicitation. In Proceedings of the 9th ACM conference on Recommender systems (pp. 273-276), New York, NY, USA: ACM free access via ACM
- Graus, M. P., Willemsen, M. C., & Swelsen, K. (2015). Understanding Real-Life Website Adaptations by Investigating the Relations Between User Behavior and User Experience. In F. Ricci, K. Bontcheva, O. Conlan, & S. Lawless (Eds.),User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (pp. 350–356). Springer International Publishing. Link to springer
- Ekstrand, M.D., Harper, F.M., Willemsen, M.C.& Konstan, J.A. (2014). User Perception of Differences in Recommender Algorithms. In Proceedings of the 8th ACM conference on Recommender systems (pp. 161–168). New York, NY, USA: ACM free access via ACM
- Knijnenburg, B.P., Willemsen, M.C., & Broeders, R.(2014). Smart Sustainability through System Satisfaction: Tailored Preference Elicitation for Energy-saving Recommenders. Full paper accepted to the Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) manuscript
- Nguyen, T. T., Kluver, D., Wang, T.-Y., Hui, P.-M., Ekstrand, M. D., Willemsen, M. C., & Riedl, J. (2013). Rating Support Interfaces to Improve User Experience and Recommender Accuracy. In Proceedings of the 7th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (pp. 149–156). New York, NY, USA: ACM free access via ACM
- Bollen, D., Graus, M., & Willemsen, M. C. (2012). Remembering the stars?: effect of time on preference retrieval from memory. In Proceedings of the sixth ACM conference on Recommender systems (pp. 217–220). New York, NY, USA: ACM free access via ACM
- Knijnenburg, B. P., Reijmer, N. J. M., & Willemsen, M. C. (2011). Each to his own: how different users call for different interaction methods in recommender systems. In Proceedings of the fifth ACM conference on Recommender systems (pp. 141–148). New York, NY, USA: ACM. free access via ACM
- Knijnenburg, B. P., Willemsen, M. C., & Kobsa, A. (2011). A pragmatic procedure to support the user-centric evaluation of recommender systems. In Proceedings of the fifth ACM conference on Recommender systems (pp. 321–324). New York, NY, USA: ACM. free access via ACM
- Bollen, D., Knijnenburg, B. P., Willemsen, M. C., & Graus, M. (2010). Understanding choice overload in recommender systems. In Proceedings of the fourth ACM conference on Recommender systems - RecSys ’10 (pp. 63–70). Barcelona, Spain. free access via ACM
- Knijnenburg, B.P. & Willemsen, M.C. (2010). The effect of preference elicitation methods on the user experience of a recommender system. CHI EA '10 : Proceedings of the 28th of the international conference extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems, (pp. 3457-3462). New York: ACM. free access via ACM
- Knijnenburg, B.P., Willemsen, M.C. & Hirtbach, S. (2010). Receiving recommendations and providing feedback : the user-experience of a recommender system. In F. Buccafurri & G. Semeraro (Eds.), E-Commerce and Web Technologies (11th International Conference, EC-Web 2010, Bilbao, Spain, September 1-3, 2010. Proceedings). (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, Vol. 61, pp. 207-216). Bilbao: Springer.
- Knijnenburg, B.P., Willemsen, M.C. (2009). Understanding the effect of adaptive preference elicitation methods on user satisfaction of a recommender system. 3rd ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, RecSys'09, 23 October - 25 October 2009, New York, NY. (pp. 381-384). (Best short paper award RecSys 2009) free access via ACM
Workshop Publications and descriptions
- Graus, M.P. & Willemsen, M.C. (2016). Can Trailers Help to Alleviate Popularity Bias in Choice-Based Preference Elicitation? Joint Workshop on Interfaces and Human Decision Making for Recommender Systems at the ACM RecSys 2016 conference, September 15-19, 2016link to paper
- Rutjes, H., Willemsen, M.C. & IJsselsteijn, W.A. (2016). Understanding Effective Coaching on Healthy Lifestyle by Combining Theory- and Data-driven Approaches CEUR-WS Workshop Proceedings, Vol 1582, 26-29 (Proceedings of the International Workshop on Personalization in Persuasive Technology co-located with the 11th International Conference on Persuasive Technology (PT 2016)) link to paper
- Starke, A.D., Willemsen, M.C., & Snijders, C.(2015). Saving Energy in 1-D: Tailoring Energy-saving Advice Using a Rasch-based Energy Recommender System. CEUR-WS Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 1533, 5-8. (Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Decision Making and Recommender Systems, Bolzano, Italy, October 22-23, 2015). link to paper
- Chen, L., de Gemmis, M., Felfernig, A., Lops, P., Ricci, F., Semeraro, G., & Willemsen, M. C. (2013). Workshop on Human Decision Making in Recommender Systems: Decisions@RecSys’13. In Proceedings of the 7th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (pp. 479–480). New York, NY, USA free access via ACM
- De Gemmis, M., Felfernig, A., Lops, P., Ricci, F., Semeraro, G., & Willemsen, M. C. (2012). RecSys’12 Workshop on Human Decision Making in Recommender Systems. In Proceedings of the Sixth ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (pp. 347–348). New York, NY, USA: ACM. free access via ACM
- Willemsen, M.C., Knijnenburg, B.P., Graus, M.P., Velter-Bremmers, L.C.M. & Fu, K. (2011) Using Latent Features Diversification to Reduce Choice Difficulty in Recommendation Lists. CEUR-WS Workshop Proceedings, Vol 811, 14-20 (part of the Workshop on Human Decision Making in Recommender Systems, ACM RecSys 2011 conference, October 26th)http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-811/paper3.pdf
- Willemsen, M., Bollen, D., & Ekstrand, M. (2011). UCERSTI 2: second workshop on user-centric evaluation of recommender systems and their interfaces. In Proceedings of the fifth ACM conference on Recommender systems (pp. 395–396). New York, NY, USA: ACM free access via ACM