Demos:
If you would like to view a demonstration and learn first-hand how Interactive Personalization technology works, please contact Scott Beeson, Vice President of Marketing, Recommender, Inc., at sbeeson@recommender.com, or 847/332-2000.

The following are three applications of Interactive Personalization technology. Each demonstrates the flexibility of our technology for various user goals.

Entree was developed in 1996 for the Democratic National Convention in Chicago where it provided convention-goers with a method for finding local restaurants. Using Interactive Personalization technology, Entree allows users to give the system the name of a restaurant they like in any of seven cities. The system then processes this information to find other, similar restaurants in Chicago that are then suggested to the user. Entree then allows users to sharpen recommendations to find a restaurant just right for the occasion.

People-Finder is a staffing tool built in partnership with a global strategic consulting firm. Using resumes and internal work histories, People-Finder suggests employee names to fill particular staffing needs. The tool's unique interface allows staffing managers to find people on the basis of their similarity to other employees who might not be available (for example, "Get me someone like Hank Smith"). As with all Interactive Personalization systems, the resulting recommendations can be tweaked. In this case, tweaks allow staffers to look for firm members with more overall experience, knowledge in a specific industry and more education in certain areas, among others. The original People-Finder system was designed and deployed in 1997.

The Kenwood Home Theater Builder was developed in conjunction with KnowledgeLinks, a retail Website development firm. The system uses consumer preferences and constraints (such as what sort of features they wanted in an audio/video system and what size room they have) to help them build and choose a home theater system. Using knowledge of the constraints among components, the system allows naive users to create a complete home theater system by tweaking through the space of possibilities. The Home Theater Builder was developed for the Kenwood USA Website in 1997.