Context-Aware Recommendations in Mobile Environments

Traditional recommendation systems offer relevant items (e.g., books, movies, music, etc.) to users, but they are not designed for mobile environments. In those environments, the context (e.g., the location, the time, the weather, the presence of other people, etc.) and the movements of the users may be important factors to obtain relevant and helpful recommendations. The emergence of context-aware recommendation systems has prompted the growth of recommendation algorithms that incorporate context information. However, most existing research in this field considers only static context information, despite the fact that exploiting dynamic context information would be very helpful in mobile computing scenarios. Moreover, the design and implementation of generic frameworks to support an easy development of context-aware recommendation systems has been relatively unexplored. In this paper, we present our ongoing work to develop a context-aware recommendation framework for distributed and mobile environments, which will allow suggesting relevant items to mobile users.