RS064 Socially-Motivated Music Recommendation

Socially-Motivated Music Recommendation

tldr – The wide variety of reasons people listen to music include both individual motivations, like self-awareness and mood regulation, as well as social motivations, such as demonstrating belonging to a group or feeling connected to friends.

Latest Publications

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Structural Podcast Content Modeling with Generalizability

Yijun Tian, Maryam Aziz, Alice Wang, Enrico Palumbo and Hugues Bouchard

Personalized Audiobook Recommendations at Spotify Through Graph Neural Networks

Marco De Nadai, Francesco Fabbri, Paul Gigioli, Alice Wang, Ang Li, Fabrizio Silvestri, Laura Kim, Shawn Lin, Vladan Radosavljevic, Sandeep Ghael, David Nyhan, Hugues Bouchard, Mounia Lalmas-Roelleke, Andreas Damianou

Research Areas

How do we create more personalized experiences? What can we learn about listeners based on how they use written language? How do we optimize testing methodologies? Explore all our research areas below.

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