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A recommendation system (RS) in a website is increasingly significant for consumer’s decision making. A RS includes several important benefits, such as increasing user satisfaction and building user trust. Despite the growing literature that examined the usefulness of a specific attribute of a RS, less is known about which combination of attributes of a RS is preferable and how the combination influences consumer decision making. By using a conjoint analysis, we can further explore the impacts of combination attributes. In a lab experiment, we find that the importance ranking of attributes of a RS for the participants is quite different. Specifically, all the participants consider the attribute, “Explanation for Recommendation”, is important. In addition, “Rating” is important for the specific participants. Furthermore, “Comment” seems to be less important to all the participants. Our results have important implications for the design of a RS.
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Ku, YC., Peng, CH., Yang, YC. (2014). Consumer Preferences for the Interface of E-Commerce Product Recommendation System. In: Nah, F.FH. (eds) HCI in Business. HCIB 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8527. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07293-7_51
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