Practical Challenges in Indoor Mobile Recommendation

Recommendation systems are present in multiple contexts as e-commerce, websites, and media streaming services. As scenarios get more complex, techniques and tools have to consider a number of variables. When recommending services/products to mobile users while they are in indoor environments next to the object of the recommendation, variables as location, interests, route, and interaction logs also need to be taken into account. In this context, this work discusses the practical challenges inherent to the context of indoor mobile recommendation (e.g., mall, parking lot, museum, among others) grounded on a case and a systematic review. With the presented results, one expects to support practitioners in the task of defining the proper approach, technology, and notification method when recommending services/products to mobile users in indoor environments.