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EasyStudy: Framework for Easy Deployment of User Studies on Recommender Systems

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Patrik Dokoupil (Department of Software Engineering, Charles University) and Ladislav Peska (Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czechia)

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Abstract

Improvements in the recommender systems (RS) domain are not possible without a thorough way to evaluate and compare newly proposed approaches. User studies represent a viable alternative to online and offline evaluation schemes, but despite their numerous benefits, they are only rarely used. One of the main reasons behind this fact is that preparing a user study from scratch involves a lot of extra work on top of a simple algorithm proposal. To simplify this task, we propose \textsc{EasyStudy}, a modular framework built on the credo “\textit{Make simple things fast and hard things possible}”. It features ready-to-use datasets, preference elicitation methods, incrementally tuned baseline algorithms, study flow plugins, and evaluation metrics. As a result, a simple study comparing several RS can be deployed with just a few clicks, while more complex study designs can still benefit from a range of reusable components, such as preference elicitation. Overall, \textsc{EasyStudy} dramatically decreases the gap between the laboriousness of offline evaluation vs. user studies and, therefore, may contribute towards the more reliable and insightful user-centric evaluation of next-generation RS.

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