Feeling Expression Using Avatars and Its Consistency for Subjective Annotation

Consumer Generated Media(CGM) is growing rapidly and the amount of content is increasing. However, it is often difficult for users to extract important contents and the existence of contents recording their experiences can easily be forgotten. As there are no methods or systems to indicate the subjective value of the contents or ways to reuse them, subjective annotation appending subjectivity, such as feelings and intentions, to contents is needed. Representation of subjectivity depends on not only verbal expression, but also nonverbal expression. Linguistically expressed annotation, typified by collaborative tagging in social bookmarking systems, has come into widespread use, but there is no system of nonverbally expressed annotation on the web. We propose the utilization of controllable avatars as a means of nonverbal expression of subjectivity, and confirmed the consistency of feelings elicited by avatars over time for an individual and in a group. In addition, we compared the expre...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: WEBIST
• Authors: Fuyuko Ito, Yasunari Sasaki, Tomoyuki Hiroyasu, Mitsunori Miki
• Keywords: Collaborative Tagging, Controllable Avatars, Internet Technology, Subjective Annotation, WEBIST 2008