The Implementation of Recommender Systems for Mental Health Recovery Narratives: Evaluation of Use and Performance.
Emily SladeCaroline YeoFiona Y Y NgYasuhiro KoteraJoy Llewellyn-BeardsleyChristopher NewbyTony GloverJeroen KeppensMike SladePublished in: JMIR mental health (2024)
Clinical population may be associated with recommender system performance. Recommender systems are susceptible to a wide range of undesirable biases. Approaches to mitigating these include providing enough initial data for the recommender system (to prevent overfitting), ensuring that items can be accessed outside the recommender system (to prevent a feedback loop between accessed items and recommended items), and encouraging participants to provide feedback on every narrative they interact with (to prevent participants from only providing feedback when they have strong opinions).