Abstract

The availability of a variety of Internet-based services for tourists has drastically changed the way travel plans are made. This has indicated that instead of travel planning from traditional travel information (articles and guidebooks), it is starting from emotional information linked to photographs and other imagery information. In this study, in order to provide an "EmoTABI experience," a travel to feel EMOI, we have developed to analyze image of interest, extract a color emotion derived from the color information of image and object emotion related to objects in the image, respectively, and search for optimal sightseeing spots match the mental value of before travel, TABIMAE. Using this developed the TABIMAE mind search system, recommendations for tourist destinations were provided for Tokyo, Osaka, and Nasu Town, Tochigi Prefecture. Furthermore, we carried out a questionnaire survey to confirm the validity of the system. As a result, we confirmed that the results obtained from this system were valid. In this paper, the TABIMAE mind search system is overall and reported to discuss the obtained results through the prototype system.

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