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Authors:
Kazumasa Takami
Ryo Yamashita
Kenji Tani
Yoshikazu Honma
Shinichiro Goto
Keywords: content delivery service; interests and preferences; deduction of state of mind; mobile phone email; pictographic character
Abstract:
As the ubiquitous environment is taking root, there are calls for services that deliver content appropriate for the individual user’s personal interests and preferences. However, it is difficult to deduce the ever-changing preferences of people who live in a complicated society. In this paper, we focus on mobile phones, whose users are growing in number and which offer many sophisticated functions besides the ability to talk. We propose a method of deducing the state of mind of the user by analyzing the pictographic characters and emoticons used in his or her emails. Moreover, we have proposed a method of selecting an appropriate piece of music based on a music type, which is represented by the "number of chords", "sound strength", and "melody pattern" in a piece of music. We have developed the algorithm to deduce the user’s state of mind from an email and applied the algorithm to the selection of music, which is considered to be close related to people’s feelings.
Pages: 37 to 46
Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2009. Used with permission.
Publication date: June 7, 2009
Published in: journal
ISSN: 1942-2601