Recommending music for places of interest in a mobile travel guide
Matthias Braunhofer, Marius Kaminskas, Francesco Ricci⋆ · 2011
Context-aware music recommender systems suggest music items taking into consideration contextual conditions, such as the user mood or location, that may influence the user preferences at a particular moment. In this paper we consider a particular kind of context-aware recommendation task: selecting music suited for a place of interest (POI), which the user is visiting, and that is illustrated in a mobile travel guide. We have designed an approach for this novel recommendation task by matching music to POIs using emotional tags. In order to test our approach, we have developed a mobile application that suggests an itinerary and plays recommended music for each visited POI. The results of the study show that users judge the recommended music suited for the POIs, and the music is rated higher when it is played in this usage scenario.