A model for proactivity in mobile, context-aware recommender systems

Wolfgang Woerndl, Johannes Huebner, Roland Bader, Daniel Gallego-Vico

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Abstract

A proactive recommender system pushes recommendations to the user when the current situation seems appropriate, without explicit user request. This is conceivable in mobile scenarios such as restaurant or gas station recommendations. In this paper, we present a model for proactivity in mobile recommender systems. The model relies on domain-dependent context modeling in several categories. The recommendation process is divided into two phases to first analyze the current situation and then examine the suitability of particular items. We have implemented a prototype gas station recommender and conducted a survey for evaluation. Results showed good correlation of the output of our system with the assessment of users regarding the question when to generate recommendations.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationRecSys'11 - Proceedings of the 5th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems
Pages273-276
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Event5th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, RecSys 2011 - Chicago, IL, United States
Duration: 23 Oct 201127 Oct 2011

Publication series

NameRecSys'11 - Proceedings of the 5th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems

Conference

Conference5th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, RecSys 2011
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityChicago, IL
Period23/10/1127/10/11

Keywords

  • context
  • information filtering
  • mobile
  • proactive system
  • proactivity
  • recommender system

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