New approach to emotional information exchange: Experience metaphor based on life logs

We are striving to develop a new communication technology based on individual experiences that can be extracted from life logs. We have proposed the “Emotion Communication Model” and confirmed that significant correlation exists between experience and emotion. As the second step, particularly addressing impressive places and events, this paper describes an investigation of the extent to which we can share emotional information with others through individuals´ experiences. Subjective experiments were conducted using life log data collected during 7-47 months. Experiment results show that (1) impressive places are determined by the distance from home, visit frequency, and direction from home and that (2) positive emotional information is highly consistent among people (71.4%), but it is not true for negative emotional information. Therefore, experiences are useful as metaphors to express positive emotional information.