In the meantime we have some great news: We will present appazaar at Pervasive 2010 – The Eighth International Conference on Pervasive Computing. We got our poster “Contextualizing Mobile Applications for Context-aware Recommendation” accepted for presentation and the reviews are very motivating! Here’s a short summary of the papers content:

Abstract: Current recommender systems for mobile applications neglect the very mobility of their users and their perpetually changing contexts. Although applications naturally serve for a special purpose, they cannot be addressed to a particular context of use. Hitherto, context information is not taken into account for the recommendation of mobile applications. In this paper we present work in progress on a platform that gives rise to context-awareness for mobile application recommendation. It records the users’ application usage and relates it to context information that is traced on the users’ devices. Thereby we can determine the context of use of the applications. We describe the conceptual design of a recommender system that exploits this information and suggests only contextual relevant applications to its users. A prototype implementation is presented.

If you are interested in all the techniques and algorithms running behind the software, you can meet us at Pervasive 2010 in Helsinki, Finnland. You’ll also find the paper and the poster on this website after the presentation at the conference. However, if you cannot make it to the conference, please drop us an e-mail for any feedback, question or suggestion.

Oh and by the way, the next release is coming soon, we are just in the phase of stabilizing the new features. And it’ll come with a lot of new features and improvements