appazaar serves as a plattform to conduct research on context-aware recommender system. The service is a testbed to evaluate different recommender engines that suggest mobile apps. We are following an approach of deployment-based research.

Publications

• Matthias Böhmer, Brent Hecht, Johannes Schöning, Antonio Krüger, Gernot Bauer: Falling Asleep with Angry Birds, Facebook and Kindle – A Large Scale Study on Mobile Application Usage. In: Proceedings of Mobile HCI 2011. Stockholm 2011, Sweden.
• Matthias Böhmer, Gernot Bauer, Antonio Krüger: Exploring the Design Space of Context-aware Recommender Systems that Suggest Mobile Applications. In: RecSys 2010 – Workshop on Context-Aware Recommender-Systems. Barcelona 2010, Spain.
• Matthias Böhmer, Gernot Bauer: Exploiting the Icon Arrangement on Mobile Devices as Information Source for Context-awareness. In: Proceedings of MobileHCI ’10. Lissabon 2010, Portugal.
• Matthias Böhmer, Gernot Bauer, Moritz Prinz: Contextualizing Mobile Applications for Context-aware Recommendation. In: Adjunct Proceedings of PERVASIVE ’10. Helsinki 2010, Finland.
• Matthias Böhmer, Gernot Bauer: Improving the Recommendation of Mobile Services by Interpreting the User’s Icon Arrangement. In: Adjunct Proceedings of MobileHCI ’09. Bonn 2009, Germany.
• Matthias Böhmer, Gernot Bauer: The Case for Context-Collaborative Filtering in Pervasive Services Environments. In: MobileHCI ’09 – Workshop on Context-Aware Mobile Media and Mobile Social Networks. Bonn 2009, Germany.