Combining Affective Computing and Facebook API Social Computing to Establish a Mobile Platform with Automatic Emotion Status Updating Functions

Abstract

Do you know anything about Facebook? Maybe you had seen a movie which is called Social Network. It ’s talking about people get community on website. Facebook has more and more user since 2006,and it had already become the most popular network community in past few years .How can this small platform become so popular? It has a graffiti wall allow users to say something about their recent life. Between users, if somebody like what you post on graffiti wall, this somebody may probably give you a “like”. However, these “Humanity ” function are unable to find out what users ’ emotion.So, if we can build an affective computing platform on Facebook, analyzing users ’ input information (such as :what user type or what user say),it may help you understand what is your emotion easily ,and this may help your friends know what is your situation recently that they can have some corresponding to you, and this behavior is what we want to see; We hope to use this platform to help improving you and your friends ’ friendship. This study is focus on three major as following: (1)Using Internet to have Community and interaction .(2) How to build a platform combining affective computing on Facebook( identify symbols including text and voice), then let users decide whether update their emotion status on Facebook ’s graffiti wall or not .(3) Setting up our platform on mobile device . Such as: Android 、iPhone …etc. We used Android smart phone in this project.