EFFECTIVENESS OF AVATARS FOR SUBJECTIVE ANNOTATION

Fuyuko Ito, Yasunari Sasaki, Tomoyuki Hiroyasu, Mitsunori Miki

2008

Abstract

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 proposed the use 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 expressiveness and ease of subjective annotation between collaborative tagging and controllable avatars. The result indicated that the feelings evoked by avatars are consistent in both cases, and using controllable avatars is easier than collaborative tagging for representing feelings elicited by contents that do not express meaning, such as photos.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Ito F., Sasaki Y., Hiroyasu T. and Miki M. (2008). EFFECTIVENESS OF AVATARS FOR SUBJECTIVE ANNOTATION . In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-8111-27-2, pages 74-81. DOI: 10.5220/0001524700740081

in Bibtex Style

@conference{webist08,
author={Fuyuko Ito and Yasunari Sasaki and Tomoyuki Hiroyasu and Mitsunori Miki},
title={EFFECTIVENESS OF AVATARS FOR SUBJECTIVE ANNOTATION},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: WEBIST,},
year={2008},
pages={74-81},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001524700740081},
isbn={978-989-8111-27-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: WEBIST,
TI - EFFECTIVENESS OF AVATARS FOR SUBJECTIVE ANNOTATION
SN - 978-989-8111-27-2
AU - Ito F.
AU - Sasaki Y.
AU - Hiroyasu T.
AU - Miki M.
PY - 2008
SP - 74
EP - 81
DO - 10.5220/0001524700740081