Mobile systems and Context-awareness • With huge mobile marketplaces, users are overwhelmed by the large amount of applications combined with a usage situation that often implies distraction and time pressure! • By analyzing the situation in which they are, it is possible to exploit the information extracted from user’s context to find the right applications to recommend in that specific moment • The context plays the role of “filter” and helps to improve the information retrieval process 4th Workshop on Context-awareness in Retrieval and Recommendation in conjunction with ECIR 2014, Amsterdam 2014 Marco PavanUniversità degli studi di Udine