Less is More: Towards Sustainability-Aware Persuasive Explanations in Recommender Systems
<|reference_start|>Less is More: Towards Sustainability-Aware Persuasive Explanations in Recommender Systems: Recommender systems play an important role in supporting the achievement of the United Nations sustainable development goals (SDGs). In recommender systems, explanations can support different goals, such as increasing a user's trust in a recommendation, persuading a user to purchase specific items, or increasing the understanding of the reasons behind a recommendation. In this paper, we discuss the concept of "sustainability-aware persuasive explanations" which we regard as a major concept to support the achievement of the mentioned SDGs. Such explanations are orthogonal to most existing explanation approaches since they focus on a "less is more" principle, which per se is not included in existing e-commerce platforms. Based on a user study in three item domains, we analyze the potential impacts of sustainability-aware persuasive explanations. The study results are promising regarding user acceptance and the potential impacts of such explanations.<|reference_end|>
@article{tran2024less,
    title={Less is More: Towards Sustainability-Aware Persuasive Explanations in
  Recommender Systems},
    author={Thi Ngoc Trang Tran, Seda Polat Erdeniz, Alexander Felfernig,
  Sebastian Lubos, Merfat El-Mansi, Viet-Man Le},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.18690},
    year={2024},
    doi={10.1145/3640457.3691708},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2409.18690},
    primaryClass={cs.IR}
}