choice overload

Expanding our earlier work on choice overload in related-article recommendations, we analyzed a digital library to figure out the ideal number of recommendations to show to users. Some of our metrics point toward 5-6 items as the ideal number of recommendations to display. You can find the full paper here (PDF). Choice Overload describes a … Read more

We investigate the problem of choice overload – the difficulty of making a decision when faced with many options – when displaying related-article recommendations in digital libraries. So far, research regarding to how many items should be displayed has mostly been done in the fields of media recommendations and search engines. We analyze the number … Read more