Research Article
Determining Trustworthiness and Quality of Mobile Applications
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-36660-4_14, author={Ilung Pranata and Rukshan Athauda and Geoff Skinner}, title={Determining Trustworthiness and Quality of Mobile Applications}, proceedings={Mobile Wireless Middleware, Operating Systems, and Applications. 5th International Conference, Mobilware 2012, Berlin, Germany, November 13-14, 2012, Revised Selected Papers}, proceedings_a={MOBILWARE}, year={2013}, month={2}, keywords={trust reputation mobile application}, doi={10.1007/978-3-642-36660-4_14} }- Ilung Pranata
Rukshan Athauda
Geoff Skinner
Year: 2013
Determining Trustworthiness and Quality of Mobile Applications
MOBILWARE
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-36660-4_14
Abstract
The growth of “smart” mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets, has been exponential over the past few years. Such growth was mainly attributed to the development of mobile applications. To date, mobile applications have been increasingly used to improve our productivity and also to provide the entertainment contents. However, with a huge number of mobile applications that appear in the application stores; in particular those that provide similar functionalities, users are often confused with the selection of trustworthy and high quality mobile applications. At the current state, there is a limited research embarked to provide solutions for measuring the trustworthiness of mobile applications prior to download. Thus, the aims of this paper are to review the current research in this area and to discuss several issues in measuring the trustworthiness of mobile applications. In addition, this paper also proposes MobilTrust, a similarity trust measurement method to solve the identified issues.