A nice study on music recommendations

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  1. usabart

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    Hi everyone,

    I am doing research on TasteWeights a new music recommender system that we created at UC Irvine and UC Santa Barbara. We are really excited about it, and now we are testing several versions of the system to see which one works best.

    This HIT pays $1.20!

    Here is a link to the HITs. Even though there are several, please do only one:
    https://www.mturk.com/mturk/searchbar?selectedSearchType=hitgroups&requesterId=A2I8ERVTRLNRI7

    Since the recommender leverages your Facebook music likes, you will need to have some music likes on your Facebook profile (about 10-20), and you will have to give our recommender app permission to access your profile. It may require you to add some more music likes to your Facebook profile, but after that it is a very quick and fun study to do.

    A note on privacy: As a university, we are required to be very careful with your data: we will not collect any personally identifying information from your Facebook profile. That's not only our promise; the university would fire us if we did that :D

    Feel free to discuss the HIT below, but please refrain from discussing the different versions of the system: testing these versions works best if nobody is aware of what versions are exactly being tested :)

    Also, feel free to post a link to the latest version of the HIT. I am not a worker myself, so I cannot see the link myself. Also, we keep creating small batches of HITs, so if a posted link doesn't work, just use the search function!

    Thanks for participating and happy Turking! :cheer2:


    Bart Knijnenburg
    Informatics PhD candidate
    UC Irvine
     
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  2. Andy

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    Good luck with the tests and the PhD!
     
  3. bobbie01

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    Can we do more than one of these hits? I had assumed that we could only do one but I thought I would ask.
     
  4. usabart

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    Yep, please do it only once :)

    Thanks for helping!
     
  5. aphotic

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    Here is a current link:

    Title: [UCI/UCSB study] Get music recommendations based on your Facebook profile!
    Requester: Bart Knijnenburg [A2I8ERVTRLNRI7] (TO)
    Description: Please use and evaluate TasteWeights, a system that recommends music based on your Facebook profile
    Reward: $1.20
    Qualifications: HIT approval rate (%) is not less than 96, Total approved HITs is greater than 50, Location is US
    Link: https://www.mturk.com/mturk/preview?groupId=21WH0OHOVR140TYGVK02NEC1J7345C
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    You can also find it by searching "facebook music".
     
  6. aphotic

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    I'm unable to do the HIT. I've tried it off and on today. When I click on the "check if your eligible" link, it takes a minute and then the page doesn't load. I get an error:

    Error 101 (net::ERR_CONNECTION_RESET): The connection was reset.
     
  7. usabart

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    Just my luck: apparently the UCSB campus had some power/network issues which affected our server. I just tested it, and it works fine again from my machine. A bit slow, but it works :)
     
  8. MandyB

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    So off topic, but I can't help asking... Are you Dutch?
     
  9. usabart

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    Yes! But very happily living in Southern California :-D
     
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  11. RobinSays

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    Just wanted to report that the "check if I'm eligible" script isn't working. Any suggestions? Thanks!
     

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