arsmeteo

We validated ArsEmotica by means of a user study which involved the community of Italian users of the ArsMeteo art portal: http://www.arsmeteo.org.
ArsMeteo is a Web 2.0 platform (on-line since 2006), that enables the collection and the presentation of digital (or digitalized) artworks and performances (including poems, videos, pictures and musical compositions), together with their tags.
The user study focussed on a corpus of about 40 tagged artworks and involved about one hundred users (about 35% of the whole community), the same community which tagged the artworks. Notice that the tagging activity, monitored in ArsMeteo since 2006, was not performed with the aim of later applying some kind of Sentiment Analysis, but in a pure Web 2.0 approach, as a form of spontaneous annotation produced by the members of the community on one another’s works. Moreover, in ArsMeteo, artworks usually have many tags, expressing a variety of meanings, thus supporting the emergence of different emotional potentials. This is consistent with the idea that art can emotionally affect people in different ways. When this happens, the analysis performed by ArsEmotica is capable of providing multiple emotional classifications.

arsmeteo

artworks: over 11.000

tags: over 37.000

artists: over 300

user study

 

contributors

The core idea of the Arsemotica project was a brainchild of researchers from the Dipartimento di Informatica, and creative members of the Associazione Culturale Arsmeteo (ACA).

The current version of the software Arsemotica (prototype v1.0) has been developed by researchers and students from Dipartimento di Informatica, University of Turin.