Harvesting Human Feelings
Sentiment analysis, or doing web mining to determine how a given population feels, may morph into an important tool for designers. For the latest check out the post, Charting Emotions, on the Wikinomics blog. It covers some of the techniques we have discussed before but there is some new stuff. For example, We Feel Fine, has built of a big database on “human feelings” from content in the blog sphere.
Happily they offer an API for any ambitious designer that may want to adapt this technology to gain insight into how groups feel.
