Music recommendation hybrid system for improving recognition ability using collaborative filtering and impression words

Music therapy for improving recognition ability may be more effective when the favorite music of each person is adopted. In the proposed system, first, the recommendation process using collaborative filtering is terminated when no users in the reference list have the same preference of recommended music as that of a new user. Then, the second recommendation process finds the most similar music, from the scores for impression words, to those successfully recommended among music not recommended up to the moment. The average number of recommended songs for each user by the proposed system was 12.1, whereas that of collaborative filtering was 4.3. The recommendation accuracy of the proposed system was 70.2 %, whereas that of collaborative filtering was 62.1 %. The ratings of songs can be added on a user-by-user basis in the recommendation process, and this increased number of cases improves the recommendation accuracy and increases the number of recommended songs.