Personality and Social Context: Impact on Emotion Induction from Movies

In this paper we describe our preliminary work on understanding the impact of personality on the emotion induction in dierent social circumstances during the consumption of movies, for the purposeof the context-aware recommender system for movies. The purpose ofthis study is to answer two research questions: is there a dierence in emotion induction when users are alone as opposed to when they are with company during watching the movie, and do dierent personality proles in uence the emotion induction when users are alone as opposed to when they are with company during watching the movie? We have used the (LDOS-CoMoDa) dataset which contains ratings and associated contextual information for the consumed movies, as well as Big Five personality proles of the users. The results showed that there is an in uence of social context on emotion induction, and that personality factors have to be taken into consideration since for the dierent groups of users, based on the personality factors, the emotion induction was in uenced dierently