How to read a user's mind? Designing algorithms for contextual recommendations

Jul 2017

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27 Thu 08:15 AM – 10:00 PM IST

28 Fri 08:15 AM – 06:25 PM IST

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MLR Convention Centre, Whitefield, Bengaluru,

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How to read a user's mind? Designing algorithms for contextual recommendations

Submitted May 22, 2017

Section: Crisp talk for data engineering track Technical level: Beginner

The human mind is going through thousands of thoughts everyday. A perfect recommender system needs to know what is going on and suggest something useful - at all times, without being perceived as intrusive or noisy. After slicing every possible sensor within the reach of a digital system - from the GPS, Accelerometer, Time of day, Temperature, Browsing History, TV Viewing, Sound, a “perfect recommender system” should learn which ones to give more importance to, predict the state of mind - in order to make the most effective recommendations. This talk takes an exemplary approach to derive some heuristics that can drive these algorithms.

Outline

https://www.slideshare.net/BharathKumarMohan/how-to-read-a-users-mind

Speaker bio

Bharath Mohan is CEO of Sensara, a company that provides Smarter Live TV User Experience & Monetization. Sensara offers Smart Remotes, TV Search & Personalization, Smart TV Interfaces and TV Deep Data Mining. Bharath earlier worked for Google, and was part of the launch team in Google Finance, and also a technical lead for Google News. Bharath has a PhD in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Science.