Sharing geotagged pictures for an Emotion-based Recommender System

Andreas Hitz, Si-Ahmed Naas, Stephan Sigg
2021 2021 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops and other Affiliated Events (PerCom Workshops)  
Recommender systems are prominently used for movie or app recommendation or in e-commerce by considering profiles, past preferences and increasingly also further personalized measures. We designed and implemented an emotion-based recommender system for city visitors that takes into account user emotion and user location for the recommendation process. We conducted a comparative study between the emotion-based recommender system and recommender systems based on traditional measures. Our
more » ... n study involved 28 participators and the experiments showed that the emotion-based recommender system increased the average rating of the recommendation by almost 19%. We conclude that the use of emotion can significantly improve the results and especially their level of personalization.
doi:10.1109/percomworkshops51409.2021.9430978 fatcat:ztizyyzkyzghlop7ggr6ych3x4