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Query: Critiquing-based Modeling of Subjective Preferences   Applications designed for entertainment and other non-instrumental purposes
are challenging to optimize because the relationships between system parameters
and user experience can be unclear. Ideally, we would crowdsource these design
questions, but existing approaches are geared towards evaluation or ranking
discrete choices and not for optimizing over continuous parameter spaces. In
addition, users are accustomed to informally expressing opinions about
experiences as critiques (e.g. it's too cold, too spicy, too big), rather than
giving precise feedback as an optimization algorithm would require.
Unfortunately, it can be difficult to analyze qualitative feedback, especially
in the context of quantitative modeling. In this article, we present collective
criticism, a critiquing-based approach for modeling relationships between
system parameters and subjective preferences. We transform critiques, such as
"it was too easy/too challenging", into censored intervals and analyze them
using interval regression. Collective criticism has several advantages over
other approaches: "too much/too little"-style feedback is intuitive for users
and allows us to build predictive models for the optimal parameterization of
the variables being critiqued. We present two studies where we model: (i)
aesthetic preferences for images generated with neural style transfer, and (ii)
users' experiences of challenge in the video game Tetris. These studies
demonstrate the flexibility of our approach, and show that it produces robust
results that are straightforward to interpret and inline with users' stated
preferences.

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The categories of this paper are: solv-int
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