Publications by Catalin-Mihai Barbu
Published in 2019

How Can They Know That? A Study of Factors Affecting the Creepiness of Recommendations
Torkamaan, H., Barbu, C.-M., & Ziegler, J. (2019). In T. Bogers & A. Said (Eds.), Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (pp. 423–427). ACM.

Let Me Explain: Impact of Personal and Impersonal Explanations on Trust in Recommender Systems
Kunkel, J., Donkers, T., Michael, L., Barbu, C.-M., & Ziegler, J. (2019). Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’19), 487:1–487:12.

The Influence of Trust Cues on the Trustworthiness of Online Reviews for Recommendations
Barbu, C.-M., Carbonell, G., & Ziegler, J. (2019). Proceedings of the 34th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing, 1687–1689.

The impact of emotionality and trust cues on the perceived trustworthiness of online reviews
Carbonell, G., Barbu, C.-M., Vorgerd, L., & Brand, M. (2019). Cogent Business and Management, 6(1), 1586062.
Published in 2018

Designing Interactive Visualizations of Personalized Review Data for a Hotel Recommender System
Barbu, C.-M., & Ziegler, J. (2018). In J. Neidhardt, W. Wörndl, T. Kuflik, & M. Zanker (Eds.), RecTour 2018: 3rd Workshop on Recommenders in Tourism co-located with the 12th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2018) (Vol. 2222, pp. 7–12). RWTH.

Trust-Related Effects of Expertise and Similarity Cues in Human-Generated Recommendations
Kunkel, J., Donkers, T., Barbu, C.-M., & Ziegler, J. (2018). 2nd Workshop on Theory-Informed User Modeling for Tailoring and Personalizing Interfaces (HUMANIZE).
Published in 2017
3cixty: Building comprehensive knowledge bases for city exploration
Troncy, R., Rizzo, G., Jameson, A., Corcho, O., Plu, J., Palumbo, E., Ballesteros Hermida, C. J., Spirescu, A., Kuhn, K.-D., Barbu, C.-M., Rossi, M., Celino, I., Agarwal, R., Scanu, C., Valla, M., & Haaker, T. (2017). Journal of Web Semantics, 46-47, 2–13.

Towards a Design Space for Personalizing the Presentation of Recommendations
Barbu, C.-M., & Ziegler, J. (2017). In L. Boratto, S. Carta, & G. Fenu (Eds.), EnCHIReS 2017: Engineering Computer-Human Interaction in Recommender Systems : Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Engineering Computer-Human Interaction in Recommender Systems co-located with the 9th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems (EICS 2017) (Vol. 1945, pp. 10–17).

Co-Staying: a Social Network for Increasing the Trustworthiness of Hotel Recommendations
Barbu, C.-M., & Ziegler, J. (2017). In J. Neidhardt, D. Fesenmaier, T. Kuflik, & W. Wörndl (Eds.), RecTour 2017: 2nd Workshop on Recommenders in Tourism : Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Recommenders in Tourism co-located with 11th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2017) Como, Italy, August 27, 2017 (Vol. 1906, pp. 35–39).

Users’ Choices About Hotel Booking: Cues for Personalizing the Presentation of Recommendations
Barbu, C.-M., & Ziegler, J. (2017). In T. Domonkos & P. Pu (Eds.), Poster Proceeding of ACM Recsys 2017: Proceedings of the Poster Track of the 11th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2017) Como, Italy, August 28, 2017 (Vol. 1905, pp. 44–45).

User Model Dimensions for Personalizing the Presentation of Recommendations
Barbu, C.-M., & Ziegler, J. (2017). In P. Brusilovsky, M. de Gemmis, A. Felfernig, P. Lops, J. O’Donovan, N. Tintarev, & C. M. Willemsen (Eds.), IntRS 2017: Interfaces and Human Decision Making for Recommender Systems : Proceedings of the 4th Joint Workshop on Interfaces and Human Decision Making for Recommender Systems co-located with ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2017) (Vol. 1884, pp. 20–23).

Enhancing an Interactive Recommendation System with Review-based Information Filtering
Feuerbach, J., Loepp, B., Barbu, C.-M., & Ziegler, J. (2017). Proceedings of the 4th Joint Workshop on Interfaces and Human Decision Making for Recommender Systems (IntRS ’17), 1884, 2–9.
Published in 2016

Interactive Recommending: Framework, State of Research and Future Challenges
Loepp, B., Barbu, C.-M., & Ziegler, J. (2016). Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Engineering Computer-Human Interaction in Recommender Systems (EnCHIReS ’16), 3–13.

Increasing the Trustworthiness of Recommendations by Exploiting Social Media Sources
Barbu, C.-M. (2016). Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, 447–450.