Eliciting the users' unknown preferences

An observational user study for group recommender systems in the tourism domain

“…It breaks down the personality into five orthogonal dimensions: (1) openness to new experiences, i.e., the extent to which someone is prone towards experiencing new and unusual things; (2) conscientiousness, i.e., the extent to which one is precise, careful and reliable, or rather sloppy, careless, and undependable; (3) extraversion, i.e., the extent to which people are outgoing, cheerful, warm, or rather quiet, timid, and withdrawn; (4) agreeableness, i.e., the extent to which someone is altruistic, caring, and emotionally supportive, or rather indifferent, self-centered and hostile; (5) neuroticism, i.e., the extent to which someone experiences distress or rather is calm and even-tempered (McCrae and John 1992). The five-factor model of personality has been converted in many bigger and smaller measures, i.e., with more and less dimensions (Donnellan et al 2006), and is used in a wide range of application domains, including tourism (Neidhardt et al 2014).…”

“…Even though these Tourist Roles represent short-term characteristics, if compared to the long-term Big Five factors, evidence exists for associations between these two constructs (Delic et al 2016c). Factor analyses on the 17 Tourist Roles and the Big Five yielded seven basic travel types, i.e., Sun and Chill-out, Knowledge and Travel, Independence and History, Culture and Indulgence, Social and Sport, Action and Fun and Nature and Recreation (Neidhardt et al 2014).…”

“…A fifth implication of the study is related to the picture-based approach introduced in Neidhardt et al (2014Neidhardt et al ( , 2015. The pre-survey questionnaire and the picture-based approach aim at capturing a user model described in terms of the same 17 tourist roles and Big Five factors that we used in the observational study described by this article.…”

What is the “Personality” of a tourism destination?

“…A comprehensive and widely used personality model with respect to RSs is the Five-Factor Model, also known as the "Big Five" personality traits (Goldberg 1990). Neidhardt et al (2014Neidhardt et al ( , 2015 introduced a picture based approach to elicit the preferences of a user and a Seven-Factor Model to capture the respective user's profile within a travel recommender system. The Seven-Factor Model is the result 1 3…”

“…Following this line of research, the presented work aims to introduce an automated way of determining the Seven-Factor representation of tourism products. However, in contrast to Neidhardt et al (2014Neidhardt et al ( , 2015 and Glatzer et al (2018), where POIs and hotels are considered as tourism products, the focus will be on tourism destinations. Furthermore, unlike Glatzer et al (2018), where hotels are classified to one or more factors of the Seven-Factor Model, this work aims to determine a score for each factor of the Seven-Factor Model.…”