Designing the next mobile app recommender system for the globe

Affan Yasin, Lin Liu, Rubia Fatima, Wang Jianmin

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Abstract

Innovative mobile applications bring radical changes to people's life around the globe. With its unique characteristics of anywhere, anytime accessibility, thousands of mobile apps are developed, distributed, and executed over the Internet. To understand the selection criteria for different end users when facing a mobile application, this paper quests for an evaluation framework for mobile apps based statistical data analysis and survey. Firstly, user's ratings on 1500+ mobile applications from Google Play were analyzed to elicit different users' preferences on mobile apps. The data was extracted twice, first at the end 2015, then early 2017, and the data are from four different locations: The UK, USA, Netherland, and Pakistan. Secondly, the survey was conducted to collect university students' rationale when making selections and downloading decisions of a mobile app. Furthermore, the knowledge gathered from data and survey is used to propose a systematic evaluation framework. Finally, the proposed framework is used to develop a recommender system for the mobile app markets. The implementation of the recommender system is introduced, and which was further verified by an example case.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 14th International Symposium on Pervasive Systems, Algorithms and Networks, I-SPAN 2017, 11th International Conference on Frontier of Computer Science and Technology, FCST 2017 and 3rd International Symposium of Creative Computing, ISCC 2017
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages491-500
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9781538608401
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 27 Nov 2017
Externally publishedYes
Event14th International Symposium on Pervasive Systems, Algorithms and Networks, I-SPAN 2017, 11th International Conference on Frontier of Computer Science and Technology, FCST 2017 and 3rd International Symposium of Creative Computing, ISCC 2017 - Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom
Duration: 21 Jun 201723 Jun 2017

Publication series

NameProceedings - 14th International Symposium on Pervasive Systems, Algorithms and Networks, I-SPAN 2017, 11th International Conference on Frontier of Computer Science and Technology, FCST 2017 and 3rd International Symposium of Creative Computing, ISCC 2017
Volume2017-November

Conference

Conference14th International Symposium on Pervasive Systems, Algorithms and Networks, I-SPAN 2017, 11th International Conference on Frontier of Computer Science and Technology, FCST 2017 and 3rd International Symposium of Creative Computing, ISCC 2017
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityExeter, Devon
Period21/06/1723/06/17

Keywords

  • App design
  • App user behavior
  • Categorization
  • Mobile application
  • Preference Elicitation
  • Recommender system
  • User requirements
  • User specifications

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