id: 05855321
dt: a
an: 05855321
au: Karapantelakis, Athanasios; Maguire, Gerald Q.Jr.
ti: Utilizing social context for providing personalized services to mobile
    users.
so: Lukowicz, Paul (ed.) et al., Smart sensing and context. 5th European
    conference, EuroSSC 2010, Passau, Germany, November 14‒16, 2010.
    Proceedings. Berlin: Springer (ISBN 978-3-642-16981-6/pbk). Lecture
    Notes in Computer Science 6446, 28-41 (2010).
py: 2010
pu: Berlin: Springer
la: EN
cc: 
ut: social context; recommender systems; user profile; web feeds; personalized
    services; active streams
ci: 
li: doi:10.1007/978-3-642-16982-3_3
ab: Summary: We are currently witnessing a growing tendency for users to engage
    in social activities on the Internet. Consequently, social networks ‒
    tools that enable such activities ‒ are increasingly used. This paper
    describes a system that uses information users share on these networks
    (personal context), to recommend Web feeds of related content to users.
    The system mines data from popular social networks and combines it with
    information from third party websites to create user profiles.
    Subsequently, these profiles are matched with appropriately tagged Web
    feeds and are displayed to users through a mobile device application.
    We evaluate the system with a 6-month test run involving real users. We
    measure the system’s performance as well as user satisfaction and
    assessment of the accuracy of recommendations by including a feedback
    mechanism on the mobile application.
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