To stably estimate the state of emotion of a recognition object by taking account of a context.
An emotion estimate system 50 is provided with; an emotion estimate device 1 outputting an estimated emotion Es obtained by estimating a user's emotion by taking account of the context of sensor information based on time-series sensor information; an emotion prediction device 40 referring a predicted emotion change database learned by taking account of the context of actions, finding a predicted emotion change dEb predicted to change after the execution of the action and outputting the predicted emotion based on the estimated result Es' of the emotion estimate device 11 before the action; and an emotion integration part 52 fusing the estimated emotion Es and the predicted emotion Eb by parameters η obtained by taking account of time deterioration of the predicted emotion Eb and outputting a final estimated emotion E.
FUJITA MASAHIRO
SAWADA TSUTOMU
Eiichi Tamura
Seiji Iga