Context-aware Recommendations through Activity Recognition

Toon De Pessemier, Simon Dooms, Kris Vanhecke, Bart Matté, Ewout Meyns, Luc Martens

2013

Abstract

The mobile Internet introduces new opportunities to gain insight in the current user’s environment, behavior, and activity. This additional contextual information can be used as an extra information source to improve traditional recommendation algorithms. This article describes a framework to detect the current context and activity of the user by analyzing data retrieved from different sensors available on mobile devices. The framework can easily be extended to detect custom activities and is built in a generic way to ensure easy integration with other applications. On top of this framework, a recommender system is built to provide a personalized content offer, consisting of relevant information such as points-of-interest, train schedules, and touristic info, based on the user’s current context. Users who tested the application confirmed the usability and liked to use it. The recommendations are assessed as effective and help them to discover new places and interesting information.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

De Pessemier T., Dooms S., Vanhecke K., Matté B., Meyns E. and Martens L. (2013). Context-aware Recommendations through Activity Recognition . In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-8565-54-9, pages 481-490. DOI: 10.5220/0004353804810490

in Bibtex Style

@conference{webist13,
author={Toon De Pessemier and Simon Dooms and Kris Vanhecke and Bart Matté and Ewout Meyns and Luc Martens},
title={Context-aware Recommendations through Activity Recognition},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2013},
pages={481-490},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004353804810490},
isbn={978-989-8565-54-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - Context-aware Recommendations through Activity Recognition
SN - 978-989-8565-54-9
AU - De Pessemier T.
AU - Dooms S.
AU - Vanhecke K.
AU - Matté B.
AU - Meyns E.
AU - Martens L.
PY - 2013
SP - 481
EP - 490
DO - 10.5220/0004353804810490