Smartphone Based Emotion Recognition and Classification

This paper proposes a method that classifies the emotion status of a human being based on one's interactions with the smart phone. Due to one or the other practical limitations, the existing set of emotion recognition methods are difficult to use on daily basis (most of the known methods cause inconvenience to user since they require devices like wearable sensors, camera, or answering a questionnaire). The essence of this paper is to analyze the textual content of the message and user typing behavior to build a classifier that efficiently classifies the future instances. Each observation in the data set consists of 14 features. A machine learning technique called Naive Bayes classifier is applied to construct the classifier. Method proposed is capable of classifying emotions in one of the seven classes (anger, disgust, happy, sad, neutral, surprised, and fear). Experimental result has shown 72% accuracy in classification.