SMAR Tool for Systematic Mobile Application Reviews

A tool for academic researchers to conduct a keyword search of Google Play and get back the metadata for all relevant apps.

This project is stil a work in progress. You can view our beta site at smar-tool.org. Also, take a look at our User Guide for an in-depth overview of how to use our application.

Our frontend code can be found here.

Team

This project was made with love at the Santa Clara University HCI Lab by a student-led team of researchers across various disciplines.

Faculty Advisor 💡

• Professor Kai Lukoff | Website

Project Lead 💬

• Ilona van der Linden | LinkedIn | Email

Developer Team 🖥️

• Varun Mangla | LinkedIn | Email
• Gaurav Punjabi | LinkedIn
• Jeshwin Prince | LinkedIn | Email

Technical Consulting Team 🗒️

• Soham Phadke | LinkedIn | Email
• Juilee Katpatal | LinkedIn

Literature Review Team 📖

• Katrina Ying | LinkedIn
• Maggie Lau | Email
• Crystal Chen | LinkedIn

Project Alumni 🤍

• Akaash Trivedi
• Vaishnavi Upadhye
• Rani Rajurkar

Running SMAR Locally

We strongly advise accessing our tool via our website for the best user experience!

Experienced developers who wish to try the SMAR tool on their local machine: read on.

1. Clone down the sar-frontend and SAR-backend repositories to your local machine.

2. To use our stable, deployed branch: git checkout production in both the frontend and backend repositories.

3. To start sar-backend : Run node index.js

4. To start sar-frontend : Run npm-start