The research discussed in this paper focuses on the emergence of a multimedia language for human and technology to communicate over highly subjective concepts (such as impressions, feelings, and emotions). Nowadays technology is not just a tool for realizing tasks, it also serves as a medium for people to communicate. For that reason, the issue of endowing computers with the ability to understand and communicate emotion has become crucial. But how can we give such capability to a computer? And how can we transmit to a computer our emotion or our feelings. In this paper, we suggest to draw inspiration from human-human communication. Mutual understanding over emotional responses can be achieved through social interaction. We propose a dynamic interactionist framework for understanding and communicating highly subjective concepts such as visual impressions.
Citation:
Nadia Bianchi Berthouze, Toshikazu Kato, "An Interactive Visual Environment to Understand, Model and Exploit User Subjectivity in Image Retrieving Systems," iciap, pp.981, 10th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP'99), 1999