I’m happy to share that a paper research I co-authored on, was accepted for publication at the ECIR 2026 resource paper track!

Paper title: GREAT: a Group Recommendation Evaluation and Analysis Tool

In this research, we contributed to the field of Group Recommender Systems (GRS) by conducting a live user study using our proposed framework. The results demonstrate that interaction awareness enhances group satisfaction and reveals important social dynamics in GRS.

Update: You can check it out here!

This was my first ever research contribution, and I learned a lot. From choosing the topic and designing the framework to full-time coding and conducting live experiments with real users. There’s so much to talk about and reflect on, since I truly experienced the whole package.

Also, I would like to thank my co-authors David Contreras, María Salamó and Ludovico Boratto for their collaboration and for making this work possible.

— asz