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Amsterdam School of Communication Research / ASCoR ASCoR

Dr. ir. A.D. (Alain) Starke

Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
CW : Persuasive Communication
Visiting address
  • Nieuwe Achtergracht 166
Postal address
  • Postbus 15791
    1001 NG Amsterdam
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  • About me

    Hi! I am a human-technology interaction researcher who focuses on personalization and persuasion. I conduct studies using so-called recommender systems, which you may know from Netflix or Amazon. These are algorithms and interfaces that present content that fits your past preferences. I mainly do this in domains where people can change their behavior, such as energy conservation, healthy and sustainable eating, and news. I have a versatile background and combine insights from different disciplines, such as marketing communication, computer science, psychology, and behavioral economics.

  • Example
    One of my food recommender systems I used in past research
  • Publications

    2024

    • Jeng, J. H., Kasangu, G., Starke, A., & Trattner, C. (2024). Emotional Reframing of Economic News using a Large Language Model. In UMAP 2024: Adjunct Proceedings of the 32nd ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization : 1-4 July, 2024, Cagliari, Italy (pp. 231-235). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3631700.3665191
    • Kruse, J., Michiels, L., Starke, A., Tintarev, N., & Vrijenhoek, S. (2024). NORMalize: A Tutorial on the Normative Design and Evaluation of Information Access Systems. In CHIIR'24: Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval : March 10-14, 2024, Sheffield, United Kingdom (pp. 422-424). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3627508.3638319
    • Pera, M. S., Cena, F., Landoni, M., Musto, C., & Starke, A. D. (2024). Human Factors in User Modeling for Intelligent Systems. In B. Ferwerda, M. Graus, P. Panagiotis, & M. Tkalčič (Eds.), A Human-Centered Perspective of Intelligent Personalized Environments and Systems (pp. 3). Springer Nature Switzerland AG. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-55109-3_1
    • Rosnes, D., Starke, A. D., & Trattner, C. (2024). Shaping the Future of Content-based News Recommenders: Insights from Evaluating Feature-Specific Similarity Metrics. In UMAP 2024: Proceedings of the 32nd ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization : 1-4 July, 2024, Cagliari, Italy (pp. 201-211). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3627043.3659560
    • Starke, A. D., & Willemsen, M. C. (2024). Psychologically Informed Design of Energy Recommender Systems: Are Nudges Still Effective in Tailored Choice Environments? In B. Ferwerda, M. Graus, P. Germanakos, & M. Tkalčič (Eds.), A Human-Centered Perspective of Intelligent Personalized Environments and Systems (pp. 221). Springer Nature Switzerland AG. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-55109-3_9
    • Starke, A. D., Bremnes, A. S., Knudsen, E., Trilling, D., & Trattner, C. (2024). Perception versus Reality: Evaluating User Awareness of Political Selective Exposure in News Recommender Systems. In UMAP 2024: Adjunct Proceedings of the 32nd ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization : 1-4 July, 2024, Cagliari, Italy (pp. 286-291). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3631700.3665189 [details]
    • Starke, A. D., Musto, C., Rapp, A., Semeraro, G., & Trattner, C. (2024). “Tell me why”: Using natural language justifications in a recipe recommender system to support healthier food choices. User Modeling and user-adapted Interaction, 34(2), 407–440. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11257-023-09377-8 [details]
    • Starke, A. D., Solberg, V. R., Øverhaug, S., & Trattner, C. (2024). Examining the merits of feature-specific similarity functions in the news domain using human judgments. User Modeling and user-adapted Interaction, 34(4), 995-1042. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11257-024-09412-2
    • Starke, A. D., Vrijenhoek, S., Michiels, L., Kruse, J., & Tintarev, N. (2024). NORMalize 2024: The Second Workshop on Normative Design and Evaluation of Recommender Systems. In RecSys '24: Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (pp. 1242). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/3640457.3687103

    2023

    • Angelsen, A., Starke, A. D., & Trattner, C. (2023). Healthiness and environmental impact of dinner recipes vary widely across developed countries. Nature Food, 4(5), 407-415. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-023-00746-5 [details]
    • El Majjodi, A., Starke, A. D., Elahi, M., & Trattner, C. (2023). The interplay between food knowledge, nudges, and preference elicitation methods determines the evaluation of a recipe recommender system. In P. Brusilovsky, M. de Gemmis, A. Felfernig, P. Lops, M. Polignano, G. Semeraro, & M. C. Willemsen (Eds.), Proceedings of the 10th Joint Workshop on Interfaces and Human Decision Making for Recommender Systems (IntRS 2023): co-located with 17th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2023) :Hybrid Event, Singapore, September 18, 2023 (pp. 1-18). Article 1 (CEUR workshop proceedings; Vol. 3534). CEUR-WS. https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3534/paper1.pdf [details]
    • Jeng, J. H., Starke, A., & Trattner, C. (2023). Towards attitudinal change in news recommender systems: A pilot study on climate change. In F. N. Koranteng, N. Baghaei, & S. B. Gram-Hansen (Eds.), 18th International Conference on Persuasive Technology, Adjunct Proceedings: co-located with PERSUASIVE 2023 : Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, April 19th-21st, 2023 Article 11 (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 3474). CEUR-WS. https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3474/paper11.pdf [details]
    • Knudsen, E., Starke, A. D., & Trattner, C. (2023). Topical preference trumps other features in news recommendation: A conjoint analysis on a representative sample from Norway. In B. Kille (Ed.), Proceedings of the International Workshop on News Recommendation and Analytics: co-located with the 2023 ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2023) : Singapore, 18 September 2023 Article 4 (CEUR workshop proceedings; Vol. 3561). CEUR-WS. https://www.christophtrattner.info/pubs/inra2023.pdf [details]
    • Rapp, A., Cena, F., Trattner, C., Orji, R., Vassileva, J., & Starke, A. (2023). BehavRec: Workshop on recommendations for behavior change. In Proceedings of the seventeenth ACM Conference on Recommender Systems: Singapore, 18th-22nd September 2023 (pp. 1231-1233). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3604915.3608751 [details]
    • Rapp, A., Trattner, C., Vassileva, J., Cena, F., Orji, R., & Starke, A. D. (2023). Preface: Opportunities and Issues of Persuasive Recommender Systems. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Behavior Change and Persuasive Recommender Systems: co-located with the 17th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2023) : Singapore, September 19, 2023 (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 3544). CEUR-WS. https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3544/preface.pdf
    • Reinders, M. J., Starke, A. D., Fischer, A. R. H., Verain, M. C. D., Doets, E. L., & Van Loo, E. J. (2023). Determinants of consumer acceptance and use of personalized dietary advice: A systematic review. Trends in Food Science and Technology, 131, 277-294. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tifs.2022.12.008
    • Starke, A. D., Asotic, E., Trattner, C., & Van Loo, E. J. (2023). Examining the user evaluation of multi-list recommender interfaces in the context of healthy recipe choices. ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems, 1(4), Article 18. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1145/3581930 [details]
    • Starke, A. D., Emami, K., Makarová, A., & Ferwerda, B. (2023). Using visual and linguistic framing to support sustainable decisions in an online store. In B. Brasilovsky, M. de Gemmis, A. Felfernig, P. Lops, M. Polignano, G. Semeraro, & M. C. Willemsen (Eds.), Proceedings of the 10th Joint Workshop on Interfaces and Human Decision Making for Recommender Systems (IntRS 2023): co-located with 17th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2023) : Hybrid Event, Singapore, September 18, 2023 (pp. 53-62). Article 4 (CEUR workshop proceedings; Vol. 3534). CEUR-WS. https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3534/paper4.pdf [details]
    • Vrijenhoek, S., Michiels, L., Kruse, J., Starke, A. D., Viader Guerrero, J., & Tintarev, N. (2023). NORMalize: The First Workshop on Normative Design and Evaluation of Recommender Systems. In Proceedings of the seventeenth ACM Conference on Recommender Systems: Singapore, 18th-22nd September 2023 (pp. 1252-1254). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3604915.3608757 [details]
    • Vrijenhoek, S., Michiels, L., Kruse, J., Starke, A., Viader Guerrero, J., & Tintarev, N. (2023). Report on NORMalize: The First Workshop on the Normative Design and Evaluation of Recommender Systems. In S. Vrijenhoek, L. Michiels, J. Kruse, A. Starke, J. Viader Guerrero, & N. Tintarev (Eds.), Proceedings of the First Workshop on the Normative Design and Evaluation of Recommender Systems (NORMalize 2023): co-located with the 17th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2023) : Singapore, Singapore, September 19, 2023 (CEUR workshop proceedings; Vol. 3639). CEUR-WS. https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3639/preface.pdf [details]

    2022

    • Castiglia, G., El Majjodi, A., Calò, F., Deldjoo, Y., Narducci, F., Starke, A., & Trattner, C. (2022). Nudging Towards Health in a Conversational Food Recommender System Using Multi-Modal Interactions and Nutrition Labels. In 4th Knowledge-Aware and Conversational Recommender Systems Workshop (KaRS 2022) (pp. 29-35). (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 3294). CEUR-WS.
    • El Majjodi, A., Starke, A. D., & Trattner, C. (2022). Nudging Towards Health? Examining the Merits of Nutrition Labels and Personalization in a Recipe Recommender System. In UMAP2022 - Proceedings of the 30th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (pp. 48-56). (UMAP2022 - Proceedings of the 30th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/3503252.3531312
    • Elahi, M., Starke, A., El Ioini, N., Lambrix, A. A., & Trattner, C. (2022). Developing and Evaluating a University Recommender System. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 4, Article 796268. https://doi.org/10.3389/frai.2021.796268
    • Starke, A. D., & Lee, M. (2022). Unifying Recommender Systems and Conversational User Interfaces. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces, CUI 2022 Article 7 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3543829.3544524
    • Starke, A. D., Sedkowska, J., Chouhan, M., & Ferwerda, B. (2022). Examining Choice Overload across Single-list and Multi-list User Interfaces. In Proceedings of the 9th Joint Workshop on Interfaces and Human Decision Making for Recommender Systems (IntRS 2022) (pp. 3-17). (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 3222). CEUR-WS.
    • Starke, A., El Majjodi, A., & Trattner, C. (2022). Boosting Health? Examining the Role of Nutrition Labels and Preference Elicitation Methods in Food Recommendation. In Proceedings of the 9th Joint Workshop on Interfaces and Human Decision Making for Recommender Systems (IntRS 2022) (pp. 67-84). (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 3222). CEUR-WS.

    2021

    • Berge, A., Sjaen, V. V., Starke, A., & Trattner, C. (2021). Changing Salty Food Preferences with Visual and Textual Explanations in a Search Interface. In Proceedings of the 2021 Joint ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces Workshops, ACMIUI-WS 2021 (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 2903). CEUR-WS.
    • Lee, M., Noortman, R., Zaga, C., Starke, A., Huisman, G., & Andersen, K. (2021). Conversational futures: Emancipating conversational interactions for futuresworthwanting. In CHI 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Making Waves, Combining Strengths Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445244
    • Musto, C., Starke, A. D., Trattner, C., Rapp, A., & Semeraro, G. (2021). Exploring the effects of natural language justifications in food recommender systems. In UMAP 2021 - Proceedings of the 29th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (pp. 147-157). (UMAP 2021 - Proceedings of the 29th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/3450613.3456827
    • Starke, A. D., & Lee, M. (2021). Voicing concerns: User-specific pitfalls of favoring voice over text in conversational recommender systems. In Proceedings of the Joint Workshop of the 3rd Knowledge-Aware and Conversational Recommender Systems and the 5th Recommendation in Complex Environments (KaRS-ComplexRec 2021) (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 2960). CEUR-WS.
    • Starke, A. D., & Trattner, C. (2021). Promoting healthy food choices online: A sase for multi-list recommender systems. In 2021 Joint ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces Workshops, ACMIUI-WS 2021 (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 2903). CEUR-WS.
    • Starke, A. D., Kløverød Brynestad, E. K., Hauge, S., & Løkeland, L. S. (2021). Nudging Healthy Choices in Food Search through List Re-Ranking. In UMAP 2021 - Adjunct Publication of the 29th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (pp. 293-298). (UMAP 2021 - Adjunct Publication of the 29th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/3450614.3464621
    • Starke, A. D., Willemsen, M. C., & Snijders, C. (2021). Using Explanations as Energy-Saving Frames: A User-Centric Recommender Study. In UMAP 2021 - Adjunct Publication of the 29th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (pp. 229-237). (UMAP 2021 - Adjunct Publication of the 29th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/3450614.3464477
    • Starke, A. D., Willemsen, M. C., & Trattner, C. (2021). Nudging Healthy Choices in Food Search Through Visual Attractiveness. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 4. https://doi.org/10.3389/frai.2021.621743
    • Starke, A. D., Øverhaug, S., & Trattner, C. (2021). Predicting Feature-based Similarity in the News Domain Using Human Judgments. In Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on News Recommendation and Analytics (INRA 2021): co-located with 15th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2021) : Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 27, 2021 (pp. 1-18). (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 3143). CEUR-WS.
    • Starke, A., Asotic, E., & Trattner, C. (2021). "serving Each User": Supporting different eating goals through a multi-list recommender interface. In RecSys 2021 - 15th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (pp. 124-132). (RecSys 2021 - 15th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/3460231.3474232
    • Starke, A., Trattner, C., Bakken, H., Johannessen, M., & Solberg, V. (2021). The cholesterol factor: Balancing accuracy and health in recipe recommendation through a nutrient-specific metric. In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multi-Objective Recommender Systems, MORS 2021 (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 2959). CEUR-WS.
    • Starke, A., Willemsen, M., & Snijders, C. (2021). Promoting Energy-Efficient Behavior by Depicting Social Norms in a Recommender Interface. ACM TRANSACTIONS ON INTERACTIVE INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS, 11(3-4). https://doi.org/10.1145/3460005
    • van Erp, M., Reynolds, C., Maynard, D., Starke, A., Martin, R. I., Andres, F., Leite, M. C. A., de Toledo, D. A., Rivera, X. S., Trattner, C., Brewer, S., Martins, C. A., Kluczkovski, A., Frankowska, A., Bridle, S., Levy, R. B., Rauber, F., da Silva, J. T., & Bosma, U. (2021). Using Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence to Explore the Nutrition and Sustainability of Recipes and Food. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 3, Article 621577. https://doi.org/10.3389/frai.2020.621577 [details]

    2020

    • Musto, C., Trattner, C., Starke, A., & Semeraro, G. (2020). Towards a Knowledge-aware Food Recommender System Exploiting Holistic User Models. In UMAP 2020 - Proceedings of the 28th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (pp. 333-337). (UMAP 2020 - Proceedings of the 28th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/3340631.3394880
    • Starke, A. D., Willemsen, M. C., & Snijders, C. (2020). With a little help from my peers. In Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, IUI 2020 (pp. 568-578). (International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Proceedings IUI). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3377325.3377518
    • Starke, A. D., Willemsen, M. C., & Snijders, C. C. P. (2020). Beyond "one-size-fits-all" platforms: Applying Campbell's paradigm to test personalized energy advice in the Netherlands. Energy Research & Social Science, 59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2019.101311

    2019

    • Starke, A. (2019). RecSys Challenges in achieving sustainable eating habits. In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Health Recommender Systems, HealthRecSys 2019 (pp. 29-30). (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 2439). CEUR-WS.
    • Starke, A. (2019). The effectiveness of advice solicitation and social peers in an energy recommender system. In Proceedings of the 6th Joint Workshop on Interfaces and Human Decision Making for Recommender Systems, IntRS 2019 (pp. 65-71). (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 2450). CEUR-WS.

    2017

    • Starke, A., Willemsen, M., & Snijders, C. (2017). Effective user interface designs to increase energy-efficient behavior in a Rasch-based energy recommender system. In RecSys 2017 - Proceedings of the 11th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (pp. 65-73). (RecSys 2017 - Proceedings of the 11th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/3109859.3109902

    2015

    • Starke, A., Willemsen, M. C., & Snijders, C. (2015). Saving energy in 1-D: Tailoring energy-saving advice using a Rasch-based energy recommender system. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Decision Making and Recommender Systems, DMRS 2015 (pp. 5-8). (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 1533). CEUR-WS.

    Prize / grant

    • Starke, A. (2023). Best Reviewer Award Nominee UMAP Conference.

    Membership / relevant position

    • Starke, A. (2023-2024). Publicity co-chair, 18th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, Bari.

    Media appearance

    Others

    • Breves, P. (chair), van Reijmersdal, E. (organiser), Busljeta Banks, I. (organiser), Pfeuffer, A. (organiser), Starke, A. (organiser) & van Berlo, Z. (organiser) (27-11-2024 - 29-11-2024). Annual conference of the DGPuK’s advertising communication division, Amsterdam (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Starke, A. (participant) (14-11-2024 - 15-11-2024). Annual Meeting SFI MediaFutures, Bergen. Academic-Professional Workshop featuring popular, professional and scientific keynotes, as well as academic poster presentations. I was day chair (…) (participating in a conference, workshop, ...). https://mediafutures.no/event/annual-meeting-2024/
    • Starke, A. (participant) (14-10-2024 - 18-10-2024). 18th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, Bari. I had two organizational responsibilities.First, I was Publicity co-chair for the event, promoting it among different communication channels.Second, (…) (organising a conference, workshop, ...). https://sites.google.com/view/normalizeworkshop/recsys24
    • Starke, A. (participant) (16-9-2024 - 17-9-2024). Nordic Personalisation Days, Gothenburg (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Starke, A. (participant) (1-7-2024 - 4-7-2024). 32nd Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, UMAP 2024, Cagliari (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Starke, A. (organiser) (19-9-2023). 2023 International Workshop on Behavior Change and Persuasive Recommender Systems, BehavRec 2023, Singapore. Co-organisation of this event (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Starke, A. (organiser) (19-9-2023). 1st Workshop on the Normative Design and Evaluation of Recommender Systems, Singapore. co-organisation of the workshop (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
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