ForteTuba
Asked 7 years ago
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QuickPick feature
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We're playing with an interactive recommender that might be useful for people who are looking to buy gifts for others (or, who want to just play what-ifs with recommendations). Check out the QuickPick announcement on the main page. If you think it's cool, tell people (and blogs, etc.) -- it'd be nice to get a little buzz for this over the next few days.
-- Dan
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Lando
Answered 7 years ago
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Check out the QuickPick announcement on the main page. If you think it's cool, tell people (and blogs, etc.) -- it'd be nice to get a little buzz for this over the next few days.
-- Dan
I tryed a bit that feature. It is really quick, that's true. I can see that it is useful if I know what movies my friend or relative likes. I might use it to find movies which suites for my wife when I am going to video-rentals.
Some problems or suggestions:
1) When I reload quickpick-page I loose all my information which I have already entered there. Same problem arises when I click any of links (For example "Join now!"-link) and then return to quickpick-page. If quickpick-feature is going to advertise ML, then it shouldn't loose all information if new(potential) user wants to check those links.
2a) Searching movies is easy and fast. Could You mention that user doesn't have to enter correct movie title in search field, partial match is enough. New user might afraid that he/she has to enter full title in there.
2b) Search-feature have similar problems than here in forum when I try to add movie-references. Quicksearch doesn't find titles where is special characters (Amélie for example).
3) List of recommendations should be available as printer-friendly version. If I want to print it, I have to now change my browser's page-setup and change into land-scape if I want to see that list properly.
4) I can't copy titles from box. (I was trying to copy Amelie-title from there)
I hope these are useful to You!
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Ryuukuro
Answered 7 years ago
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Snap opinion: This could be more useful than the regular ML database--of course it's worthless without the ML database so there you go.
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PolarisDiB
Answered 7 years ago
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My sister tried it when I showed it to her (she doesn't have the patience for the regular database, but is curious about the results regardless) and she expressed frustration that she couldn't negate any of the films that she's seen that she felt were bad. As a result, her top picks ended up full of films she didn't really like but didn't want to send to her "already viewed" menu because she didn't want to be suggested more films like it.
--PolarisDiB
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ForteTuba
Answered 7 years ago
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PolarisDiB: We thought about a "add movies you don't like" box as well but decided for the short term that just liked movies would be okay. What do other people think about that?
As for "more useful", what tasks are you thinking of, Ryuukuro, or more generally, how do you mean that? I can imagine certain tasks it'd be good for (picking a movie for a mood, for instance; Herlocker built a similar interface to do experiments with around 2000) but I'm curious how actual people would use it rather than speculating.
-- Dan
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Ellipsis
Answered 7 years ago
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QuickPick recommends movies that are still in theaters as "gift ideas". Perhaps you should limit results to movies that have DVD release date info in the ML database?
Might you perhaps make the "+" icons a bit larger so they're easier to click?
Also shorten the sentence describing what "+" does so more folks will read it:
Click the "+" if you have already seen and liked one of the recommended movies.
-Kurt
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Lando
Answered 7 years ago
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We thought about a "add movies you don't like" box as well but decided for the short term that just liked movies would be okay. What do other people think about that?-- Dan
PolarisDiB had a point in there. I tryed this feature with list of my wife's most liked movies. After a while there was more than a couple of movies which I know, my wife dislikes.
Could there be checkbox (in suggestion list) for movies which quickpick user don't want to see. It could work even if user could mark movies off from that list.
But the initial propostion from Dan is better, if user could add or pick movies which he/she doesn't like, then this feature could be more accurate. Now it's fun to try a few times but after a (very short) while user finds out that this feature isn't too accurate, or at least is recommending also bad movies. If the purpose is to attract new users into ML, then it might work as an advertisement but for more experienced user it's too simple.
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ForteTuba
Answered 7 years ago
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Lando: It's got a couple of annoying flaws that I've seen in the logs so far.
1) It uses some popularity limits to keep from diving right into the most obscure movies in the ML database (which are often marked as quite similar to other movies but based on few ratings). But for new movies that don't have many ratings (yet), like new releases, it doesn't work well.
2) It gets stuck in the crappy sequel rathole. As soon as people add one bad sequel to the list, it starts recommending things like Police Academy: Mission to Moscow, <insert horror film name> IV: The Search for Dollars, and Gigli, a movie so bad it didn't need a sequel, apparently.
I'll ask Tony if he'd be willing to put a "bad movies" box in.
Ellipsis: The theatre thing is because the feature is doing double duty as a gift recommender and as a MovieLens quick tryout for new people. Awkward I know, and maybe we'll refine it more after we get more log data and feedback like yours.
Thanks for the feedback, keep it coming.
-- Dan
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