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Chapter 110
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8789-9.ch110
Recommending Academic
Papers for Learning Based on
Information Filtering Applied
to Mobile Environments
ABSTRACT
Mobile learning is about increasing learners’ capability to carry their own learning environment along
with them. Recommender Systems are widely used nowadays, especially in e-commerce sites and mo-
bile devices, for example, Amazon.com and Submarino.com. In this chapter, the authors propose the
use of such systems in the area of education, specifcally for the recommendation of learning objects
in mobile devices. The advantage of using Recommender Systems in mobile devices is that it is an easy
way to deliver recommendations to students. Based on this scenario, this chapter presents a model of a
recommender system based on information fltering for mobile environments. The proposed model was
implemented in a prototype aimed to recommend learning objects in mobile devices. The evaluation of
the received recommendations was conducted using a Likert scale of 5 points. At the end of this chapter,
some future works are described.
Sílvio César Cazella
Universidade Federal des Ciências da Saúde de
Porto Alegre, Brazil & Universidade do Vale do
Rio dos Sinos, Brazil
Jorge Luiz Victória Barbosa
Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Brazil
Eliseo Berni Reategui
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul,
Brazil
Patricia Alejandra Behar
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul,
Brazil
Otavio Costa Acosta
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil