Affective Social Network

Abstract

With the rapid growth of the social network service such as Twitter and Face book, many people began to make their online relationship with other people. As time goes by, the strength of the relationship has been increasingly stronger. Hence, the understanding and analyzing of the social networks are becoming an important research topic. In this paper, we focused on the people who working the social network based on human nature. We assumed that one of the important motivations of information generation and distribution is originated by human emotion. We proposed the method for analyzing social network based on human emotions, namely affective social network with two method, emotions extraction and directional emotions. Social network has potentials in human life and related industries. Besides from previous research, we believe that human emotion is key factor for understanding social network, and according to our experimental plan, we will show the detail of experiments in near future.