The role of transparency in multi-stakeholder educational recommendations.

Recommender systems have been successfully applied to alleviate the problem of information overload and assist users' decision makings. Multi-stakeholder recommender systems produce the item recommendations to the end user by considering the perspective of multiple stakeholders. Existing research on multi-stakeholder recommendations relies on the offline evaluations only, and the online studies are still under investigation. This paper made the first attempt to examine the multi-stakeholder recommendations through online studies. On the one hand, we use online user studies to compare different recommendation models. On the other hand, we develop novel user interfaces to enhance the transparency and exploit the role of transparency in multi-stakeholder recommender systems. We collect our own dataset in educational learning and use it as case study to perform the online studies in multi-stakeholder recommendations. We observe that the explanation of the key parameters in the recommendation models can enhance the transparency, which further affects the decision making of different stakeholders. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]