Functionality-based clustering using short textual description: Helping users to find apps installed on their mobile device

David Lavid Ben Lulu, Tsvi Kuflik

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Abstract

In recent years, we have witnessed the incredible popularity and widespread adoption of mobile devices. Millions of Apps are being developed and downloaded by users at an amazing rate. These are multi-feature Apps that address a broad range of needs and functions. Nowadays, every user has dozens of Apps on his mobile device. As time goes on, it becomes more and more difficult simply to find the desired App among those that are installed on the mobile device. In spite of several attempts to address the problem, no good solution for this increasing problem has yet been found. In this paper we suggest the use of unsupervised machine learning for clustering Apps based on their functionality, to allow users to access them easily. The functionality is elicited from their description as retrieved from various App stores and enriched by content from professional blogs. The Apps are clustered and grouped according to their functionality and presented hierarchically to the user in order to facilitate the search on the small screen of the mobile device.

Original languageAmerican English
Title of host publicationIUI 2013 - Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces
Pages297-305
Number of pages9
DOIs
StatePublished - 19 Mar 2013
Event18th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, IUI 2013 - Santa Monica, CA, United States
Duration: 19 Mar 201322 Mar 2013

Publication series

NameInternational Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Proceedings IUI

Conference

Conference18th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, IUI 2013
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySanta Monica, CA
Period19/03/1322/03/13

Keywords

  • Clustering
  • Data mining
  • Human-computer interaction
  • Mobile
  • Short and sparse text
  • Smartphone apps
  • Text similarity
  • Visualization

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Software
  • Human-Computer Interaction

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