Online Dating Project

This is the homepage of the Online Dating project by Edward Hung and his Final Year Project students. They are now working on various areas related to online dating systems, including user profile design, matching, user clustering and categorization, user interface design (website, email, etc), and customer relationship management. More information will be available later.

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Project Leader

Dr Edward Hung

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Students

Chan Hiu Kwan, Lui Fung Yu, Poon Siu Wai, Yeung Ka Yee, Lam Kit, Cu Wan Lok, Lau Tak Yung, Tong Wai Yee, Wong Ho Ping

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References (a growing list)

The Online Dating Industry Guide
http://www.onlinedatingmagazine.com/onlinedatingindustry.html

Online Dating Research: What Does She Have Over Me?
http://www.onlinedatingmagazine.com/industry/research/onlinedatingresearch.html
(summary of [HHA05])

Online dating research at Berkeley
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~atf/dating/

Annotated Bibliography: Attraction, Selection, and Satisfaction -- Understanding what makes happy couples
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~atf/dating/relationships_biblio.html


Batab04
A. Batabyal, "On strategy and the likelihood of success in marital matchmaking under uncertainty", in Economics Bulletin, Bol. 10, No. 7, pp. 1-7.

BL01
R.J. Brym, R.L. Lenton, "Love online: a report on digital dating in Canada"

FD04
A.T. Fiore, J.S. Donath, "Online Personals: An Overview.", Computer-Human Interaction 2004.

FD05
A.T. Fiore, J.S. Donath, "Homophily in Online Dating: When Do You Like Someone Like Yourself?" in Computer-Human Interaction 2005.

FFD04
A.T. Fiore, J. Frost, J.S. Donath, "'Scientists, designers seek same for good conversation': A Workshop on Online Dating", Workshop, Computer-Human Interaction 2004.

Fiore02
A.T. Fiore, "Romantic Regressions: An Analysis of Behavior in Online Dating Systems", Master's thesis, MIT Media Lab.


HHA05
G.J. Hitsch, A. Hortacsu, D. Ariely, "What makes you click: an empirical analysis of online dating", in 2005 Meeting Papers of Society for Economic Dynamics, No. 207.

HHA06
G.J. Hitsch, A. Hortacsu, D. Ariely, "What Makes You Click? - Mate Preferences and Matching Outcomes in Online Dating" (February 2006). MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 4603-06.

Smith05
A.D. Smith, "Exploring online dating and customer relationship management", in Online Information Review, Vol. 29, No.1, 2005, pp. 18-33.

YBBB05
L. Yang, M. Ball, V.C. Bhavsar, H. Boley, "Weighted Partonomy-Taxonomy Trees with Local Similarity Measures for Semantic Buyer-Seller Match-Making", Journal of Business and Technology. Atlantic Academic Press, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Volume 1, Number 1. October 2005. pp 42-52.

ZEGD05
J. Zhu, M. Eisestadt, A. Goncalves, C. Denham, "BuddyFinder-DORDER: Leveraging Social Networks for Matchmaking by Opportunistic Discovery", in Proc. of International SEmantic Web Conference (ISWC2005) Workshop on Semantic Network Analysis, Nov 7, 2005, Galway, Ireland.


Suggestions for FYP students:

HE1

FD04, FFD04, FD05, Fiore02, BL01, HHA05/HHA06, Batab04, YBBB05, ZEGD05 

HE2

FD04, FFD04, FD05, Fiore02, BL01, HHA05/HHA06,

HE3

FD04, FFD04, BL01

HE4

FD04, FFD04, Smith05, BL01


Batab04 matching
BL01 matching, clustering, crm
FD04 matching, clustering, crm
FD05 matching, clustering
FFD04 matching, clustering, crm
Fiore02 matching, clustering
HHA05 matching, clustering, crm
HHA06 matching, clustering, crm
Smith05 crm
YBBB05 matching
ZEGD05 matching