Publications
2019
Uncertainty-based False Information Propagation in Social Networks
In ACM Transactions on Social Computing, Volume 2, Issue 2
Jin-Hee Cho, Scott Rager, John O'Donovan, Sibel Adali, Benjamin D. Horne



Rating Reliability and Bias in News Articles: Does AI Assistance Help Everyone?
ICWSM 2019: The 13th International Conference on Web and Social Media
Benjamin Horne, Dorit Nevo, John O'Donovan, Jin-Hee Cho Sibel Adali



Understanding Node-Link and Matrix Visualizations of Networks: A Large-scale Online Experiment
In Network Science, Cambridge University Press (accepted, Feb 2019, to appear)
Donghao Ren, Laura Marusich, James Schaffer, John O'Donovan, Jonathan Z. Bakdash, Heather Roy, Daniel N. Cassenti, Sue E. Kasse, Wanyi (Sabrina) Lin, Tobias Hollerer



6th International Workshop on Interfaces and Decisions for Recommender Systems (IntRS'19), Copenhagen, Denmark
To Appear In proceedings of the 2019 ACM conference on Recommender Systems, Vancouver, Canada, October 2018 (accepted, to appear)
Pasquale Lops, Giovanni Semararo, Alexander Felfernig, Pasquale Lops, John O'Donovan, Martijn Willemsen



Knowledge Complacancy and Decision Support Systems
IEEE Conference on Cognitive and Computational Aspects of Situation Management (CogSIMA 2019)  (Best Paper Award!)
Sebastian Rodriguez, James Schaffer, John O'Donovan, Tobias Hollerer



Personalized Explanations for Hybrid Recommender Systems  (Outstanding Paper Award! IUI'19 (announcement link))
In Proceedings of ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI2019. Los Angeles, March 2019) (Accepted, To Appear)
Pigi Kouki, James Schaffer, Jay Pujara, John O'Donovan, Lise Getoor



I Can Do Better Than Your AI: Expertise and Explanations
In Proceedings of ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI2019, Los Angeles, March 2019) (Accepted, To Appear)
James Schaffer, John O'Donovan, Tobias Höllerer
2018
A Study of Situated Product Recommendations in Augmented Reality
In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality (AIVR 2018), Taichung, Taiwan, December 2018.
Brandon Huynh, Adam Ibrahim, Yun-Suk Chang, Tobias Höllerer, John O'Donovan
ARbis Pictus: A Study of Language Learning with Augmented Reality.
In Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR 2018), München, Germany, 10 pages.
Adam Ibrahim, Brandon Huynh, Jonathan Downey, Tobias Höllerer, Dorothy Chun, John O'Donovan



Easy to Please: Separating Choice Satisfaction from User Experience in Recommender Systems
In proceedings of ACM International Conference on User Modling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2018), Singapore, July 2018  (Best Paper Award! (announcement link))
James Schaffer, John O'Donovan, Tobias Höllerer,
Moodplay: Interactive Music Recommendation based on Artists’ Mood Similarity
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (IJHCS). Elsevier (Accepted March 2018, In press)
Ivana Andjelkovic, Denis Parra, John O'Donovan
A Study of Dynamic Information Display and Decision-making in Abstract Trust Games
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (IJHCS). Elsevier, February 2018
James Schaffer, John O'Donovan, Laura Marusich, Jonathan Bakdash, Michael. S. Yu, Tobias Hollerer
5th International Workshop on Interfaces and Decisions for Recommender Systems (IntRS'18)
In proceedings of the 2018 ACM conference on Recommender Systems, Vancouver, Canada, October 2018 (accepted, to appear)
Pasquale Lops, Giovanni Semararo, Alexander Felfernig, Pasquale Lops, John O'Donovan, Nava Tintarev, Martijn Willemsen
2017
Modeling and Analysis of Uncertainty-based False Information Propagation in Social Networks
In proceedings of the 2017 IEEE Global Communications Conference, Singapore, December 2017  (Best Paper Award!)
Jin-Hee Cho, Trevor Cook, Scott Rager, John O'Donovan, Sibel Adali,
User Preferences for Hybrid Explanations
In proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Conference on Recommender Systems, Como, Italy, August 2017
Pigi Kouki, Jay Pujara, James Schaffer, John O'Donovan, Lise Getoor
Joint Workshop on Interfaces and Human Decision Making for Recommender Systems (IntRS'17)
in proceedings of ACM International Conference on Recommender Systems, Como, Italy, August 2017 (To Appear)
Peter Brusilovsky, Marco De Gemmis, Giovanni Semararo, Peter Brusilovsky, Nava Tintarev, John O'Donovan
UnbiasedCrowd: An Automated Assistant to Identify and Prompt Action against Visual Bias in News
In proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Human Interaction (CHI 2017) (Extended Abstract)(To Appear)
Vishwajeet Narwa, Mohamed Hashim Salih, Jose Angel Lopez, Angel Ortega, Tobias Höllerer, John O'Donovan Saiph Savage
Gesture-Based Augmented Reality Annotation
In proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Virtual Reality (IEEE VR)
Yun Suk Chang, Benjamin Nuernberger, Bo Luan, Tobias Höllerer, John O'Donovan
2016
Through The Grapevine: A Comparison of News in Microblogs and Traditional Media
Book Chapter in Trends in Social Networks. (Information Propagation, User Behavior Modelling, Forecasting, and Vulnerability Assessment.) Springer, 2016
Byungkyu Kang, Tobias Höllerer, Ambuj K. Singh, John O'Donovan
What am I not seeing? An Interactive Approach to Social Content Discovery in Microblogs
In proceedings of 8th International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo 2016), Bellevue, WA, USA
Nava Tintarev, Byungkyu Kang, John O'Donovan
First Steps towards a View Management Concept for large-sized Head-Up Displays with Continuous Depth
In proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (to Appear)
Renate Häuslschmid, J. O'Donovan, Andreas Butz,
ACM TiiS Special Issue on Human Interaction with Artificial Advice Givers. Editor's Introduction.
In ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (ACM TiiS), December 2016.
Nava Tintarev, J. O'Donovan, Alexander Felfernig
A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Explanations for Product Reviews
in proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Interfaces and Human Decision Making for Recommender Systems (IntRS'16)
John O'Donovan, Byungkyu Kang, Tobias Hollerer, Shinsuke Nakajima
Joint Workshop on Interfaces and Human Decision Making for Recommender Systems (IntRS'16)
in proceedings of ACM International Conference on Recommender Systems, Boston, USA, September 2016
Pasquale Lops, Giovanni Semararo, Alexander Felfernig, Pasquale Lops, John O'Donovan, Nava Tintarev, Martijn Willemsen
Moodplay: Interactive Mood-based Music Discovery and Recommendation
in Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on User Modeling Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP'16), ACM Press, July 2016
I Andjelkovic, D Parra, J O'Donovan
Explaining Item Ratings in Cosmetic Product Reviews
in Proceedings of the International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists (IMECS2016), Hong Kong, March 2016
Y Matsunami, M Ueda, S Iwasaki, T Hashikami, S Nakajima, J O'Donovan, B Kang
ACM IUI 2016 conference highlights
in ACM/SIGAI AI Matters Newsletter, Volume 2 Issue 3, Spring 2016
J. Nichols, J. O'Donovan, J. Mahmud,
An Analysis of Student Behavior in Two Massive Open Online Courses
in proceedings of Tte 2016 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM'16)
James Schaffer, Brandon Huynh, J. O'Donovan, JYinglong Xia, Tobias Hollerer, Sabrina Lin
Effects of Information Availability on Command-and-Control Decision Making Performance, Trust, and Situation Awareness
in 'Human Factors : The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society' March 2016, Sage Publications
Laura R. Marusich, Jonathan Z. Bakdash, Emrah Onal, Michael S. Yu, Emrah Onal, James Schaffer, J. O'Donovan, Tobias Hollerer, Norbou Buchler, Cleotilde Gonzalez,
2015
Inspection Mechanisms for Community-based Content Discovery in Microblogs
IntRS’15 Joint Workshop on Interfaces and Human Decision Making for Recommender Systems (http://recex.ist.tugraz.at/intrs2015/) at ACM Recommender Systems 2015. Vienna, Austria. September 2015
Nava Tintarev, Byungkyu Kang, T. Hollerer, J. O'Donovan
The Full Story: Automatic detection of unique news content in Microblogs
In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Foundations and Applications of Big Data Analytics at IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2015), Paris, France, August 2015
B. Kang T. Hollerer, J. O'Donovan
Believe it or Not? Analyzing Information Credibility in Microblogs
In Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2015), Paris, France. August 2015
B. Kang T. Hollerer, J. O'Donovan
LinkScope: Interactive Graph Analysis of Unstructured Text
In Proceedings of the Interactive Visual Text Analytics Workshop at ACM Intelligent User Interfaces Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. April 2015
Y. Teng, T. Hollerer, J. O'Donovan
Hypothetical Recommendation: A Study of Interactive Profile Manipulation Behavior for Recommender Systems
In Proceedings of AAAI 28th International FLAIRS Conference. Hollywood, Florida, USA. May 18th-20th, 2015. AAAI Press.
J. Schaffer, T. Hollerer, J. O'Donovan
IntRS’15 Joint Workshop on Interfaces and Human Decision Making for Recommender Systems (http://recex.ist.tugraz.at/intrs2015/)
In Proceedings of ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys'15). Vienna, Austria (accepted, full day)
J. O'Donovan, N. Tintarev, P. Brusilovsky, A. Felfernig, G. Semeraro, A. Felfernig, P. Lops
Getting the Message? A Study of Explanation Interfaces for Traffic Analysis on Twitter
In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces. Atlanta, Georgia, March 2015
J. Schaffrer, T. Abdelzaher, T. Hollerer, D. Jones, G. Prasanna, J. O'Donovan
2014
IntRS’14 Joint Workshop on Interfaces and Human Decision Making for Recommender Systems (http://recex.ist.tugraz.at/intrs2014/)
In Proceedings of ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys'14). Foster City, California., USA. October 2014 (accepted, full day)
N. Tintarev, J. O'Donovan, P. Brusilovsky, A. Felfernig, G. Semeraro, A. Felfernig, P. Lops
Dynamics of Human Trust in Recommender Systems
In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys'14. Foster City, California., USA. October 2014
J. Harman, J. O'Donovan, T. Abdelzaher, C. Gonzalez
Finding true and credible information on Twitter
17th IEEE Conference on Information Fusion, Salamanca, Spain, 2014. (Accepted)
S. Sikdar, S. Adalı, M. Amin, T. Abdelzaher, K. Chan, J-H. Cho, B. Kang and J. O'Donovan
DUBMOD14: Workshop on data-driven user behavioral modelling and mining from social media
In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM, ACM, Nov 3rd 2014, Shanghai, China. (Accepted, full day)
J. O'Donovan J. Mahmud J. Nichols M. Zhou J. Caverlee J. O'Donovan Y. Zeng C. Liang
Trust and Consequences: A Visual Perspective.
16th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI International'14), June 22-27, 2014, Crete, Greece. (Springer)
E. Onal J. O'Donovan L. Marusich M. S. Yu J. Schaffer C. Gonzalez T. Hollerer
Competence Modeling in Twitter: Mapping Theory to Practice
International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom 2014). Stanford University, California., USA. May 27th-29th 2014
Truth, Lies, and Data: Credibility Representation in Data Analysis.
IEEE International Inter-Disciplinary Conference on Cognitive Methods in Situation Awareness and Decision Support (CogSIMA), March 3-6, 2014, San Antonio, TX, USA.
J. Schaffer T. Abdelzaher D. Jones C. Gonzalez T. Hollerer J. Harman J. O'Donovan
Decision-making in Abstract Trust Games: A User Interface Perspective (Best Paper Award!)
In proceedings of the 4th IEEE Conference on Cognitive Methods in Situation Awareness and Decision Support (CogSIMA 2014). San Antonio, Texas, Mar 2014.
E. Onal J. Schaffer J. O'Donovan L. Marusich C. Gonzalez T. Hollerer
2013
Cutting Through the Noise: Defining Ground Truth in Information Credibility on Twitter
ASE HUMAN Journal, 1(3), pp. 151-167.
Understanding Information Credibility on Twitter (Best Paper Award!)
IEEE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom 2013). Washington D.C., USA. September 8th-14th 2013
A Model-based Evaluation of Trust and Situation Awareness in the Diner’s Dilemma Game.
22nd Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation. (BRiMS). San Antonio, TX. March 2013.
J. O'Donovan Y. Teng R. Jones L. Marusich C. Gonzalez T. Hollerer
DUBMOD13: international workshop on data-driven user behavioral modelling and mining from social media
In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM, pp. 2551-2552, ACM, October 2013.
J. O'Donovan J. Mahmud J. Nichols M. Zhou J. Caverlee J. O'Donovan
Interactive Interfaces for Network Analysis: An Information Credibility Perspective.
In Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Information Quality and Quality of Service for Pervasive Computing. At PerCom 2013, San Diego, March 2013 (Invited paper)
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2013), Santa Monica, LA, March 2013
Trust and Situation Awareness in a 3-Player Diner's Dilemma Game
In proceedings of the 3rd IEEE Conference on Cognitive Methods in Situation Awareness and Decision Support (CogSIMA 2013). San Diego, Feb 2013.
Y. Teng R. Jones L. Marusich J. O'Donovan C. Gonzalez T. Hollerer
2012
An Analysis of Topical Proximity in the Twitter Social Graph.
In proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Social Informatics, SocInfo 2012, Lauzanne, Switzerland.
TopicLens: An Interactive Recommender System based on Topical and Social Connections.
In proceedings of the Interface RS workshop at the 6th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, RecSys 2012, Dublin, Ireland.
TasteWeights: A Visual Interactive Hybrid Recommender System.
In proceedings at the 6th ACM International Conference on Recommender Systems, RecSys 2012, Dublin, Ireland.
DUBMMSM'12: international workshop on data-driven user behavioral modeling and mining from social media
In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM, pp. 2752-2753, ACM, October 2012.
J. O'Donovan J. Mahmud J. Nichols M. Zhou J. Caverlee J. O'Donovan
Inspectability and Control in Social Recommenders.
In proceedings at the 6th Conference on ACM Recommender Systems, RecSys 2012, Dublin, Ireland.
Credibility in Context: An Analysis of Feature Distributions in Twitter.
In proceedings at the 2012 ASE/IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, SocialCom, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Modeling Topic-Specific Credibility in Twitter.
In proceedings at the ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, IUI 2012, Lisbon, Portugal. ACM Press
2011
WiGiPedia: A Tool for Improving Structured Data in Wikipedia.
IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing 2011
WiGiPedia: Visual Editing of Semantic Data in Wikipedia.
Demonstration at the Visual interfaces to the Social and Semantic Web (VISSW) Workshop, Intelligent User Interfaces, Palo Alto, CA, Feb. 13, 2011.
TopicNets: Visual Analysis of Large Text Corpora with Topic Modeling
A. Asuncion, D. Newman, a.P. Smyth. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology 2011.
2010
SmallWorlds: Visualizing Social Recommendations.
Computer Graphics Forum, volume 29, number 3; special issue: Proc. Eurographics/IEEE Symposium on Visualization, Bordeaux, France.
2009
WiGis: A Framework for Scalable Web-based Interactive Graph Visualizations.
Proc. GraphDrawing 2009 (17th Int’l Symposium on Graph Drawing).
A Visual Interface for Social Information Filtering. (best paper award nominee)
Proc. IEEE SocialCom 2009 (Int’l Conference on Social Computing).
2008
Capturing Trust in the Social Web.
Book Chapter: In Computing With Social Trust. Edited by Jennifer Golbeck. Springer 2008.
Trust in the Social Web, Applications in Recommender Systems and Online Auctions. (Nominated for 2008 National Dissertation Award in Science and Engineering)
PhD Thesis. National University of Ireland (UCD), November 2008.
PeerChooser: Visual Interactive Recommendation.
Proc. ACM CHI 2008 (26th Annual Conference on Computer Human Interaction).
2007
Extracting and Visualizing Trust Relationships from Online Auction Feedback Comments.
Submitted to the Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, (IJCAI 07), Hyderabad, India. January 2007.
2006
Personalizing trust in online auctions.
STarting Artificial Intelligence Researchers Symposium (STAIRS'06), Trentino, Italy, August 2006, IOS Press.
Eliciting Trust Values from Recommendation Errors.
International Journal of Artificial Intelligence Tools. (IJAIT) 2006. World Scientific Publishing Company.
Is Trust Robust? An Analysis of Trust-Based Recommendation.
. In IUI '06: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces. ACM Press, January 29–31 2006.
2005
Trust No One: Evaluating Trust-based Filtering for Recommenders.
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence IJCAI., Edinburgh, Scotland. 2005.
Mining Trust Values from Recommendation Errors. (Best Paper award Nominee)
Mining Trust Values from Recommendation Errors. Proceedings of the 18th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, May 15-17 2005, Clearwater Beach, Florida, USA. AAAI Press. (best paper award nominee)
In IUI ’05: Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, San Diego, California. pages 167–174. ACM Press, 2005.
AdRec: An Adaptive Recommender System.
M.Sc. Thesis, University College Dublin, Ireland. 2005.
2004
Evaluating Information Filtering Techniques in an Adaptive Recommender System..
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems (AH 2004). Eindhoven, The Netherlands, pp. 312-315.
A Framework for the Evaluation of Collaborative Recommendation Algorithms in an Adaptive Recommender System”
Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Linguistics (CICLing-04), Seoul, Korea.
Adaptive Recommendation: Putting The Best Foot Forward
Proceedings of 3rd International Symposium on Information and Communication Technologies (ISICT), Las Vegas, Nevada. USA. June 16-18 2004
Meta-Learning for Recommender System Design.
Special Irish Language Track at the 15th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science. (AICS 04) Caislean an Bharraigh, Contae Mhaigh Eo, Eireann., pages 18-20, September 9-12 2004
2003
A Comparison of Collaborative Recommendation Algorithms Over Diverse Data Types.
Proc. 14th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS), Trinity College, Dublin. 2003..