Tourist Navigation in Android Smartphone by using Emotion Generating Calculations and Mental State Transition Networks
This work addresses the need for more emotionally intelligent user interfaces in tourism applications on Android smartphones, though it appears incremental as it builds on existing concepts of mental state networks and emotion calculations.
The paper tackles the problem of creating an emotionally responsive tourist navigation system by using Emotion Generating Calculations and Mental State Transition Networks to model and transition between emotional states based on conversation analysis, with the result being an Android-based agent that evaluates feelings to provide an emotional interface.
Mental State Transition Network which consists of mental states connected to each other is a basic concept of approximating to human psychological and mental responses. It can represent transition from an emotional state to other one with stimulus by calculating Emotion Generating Calculations method. A computer agent can transit a mental state in MSTN based on analysis of emotion by EGC method. In this paper, the Andorid EGC which the agent works in Android smartphone can evaluate the feelings in the conversation. The tourist navigation system with the proposed technique in this paper will be expected to be an emotional oriented interface in Android smartphone.