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Rating-scales have become a popular modality for expressing our preferences, but they present several drawbacks. We have recently proposed a new modality: comparing items (“I prefer A to B”). After initial user-studies with encouraging results, we here share some initial perspectives. In particular we examine three issues illustrated with graphs of user’s preferences. We discuss the adaptability of comparisons, their algorithmic complexity and incoherences introduced by transitivity.
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Jones, N., Brun, A., Boyer, A. (2011). Initial Perspectives from Preferences Expressed through Comparisons. In: Stephanidis, C. (eds) HCI International 2011 – Posters’ Extended Abstracts. HCI 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 173. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22098-2_7
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