A recipe recommendation system that considers user's mood

Abstract

Homemaker decide what to cook based on the mood they are in, the ingredients they have in their refrigerators, or the ingredients offered in a supermarket. Most of the existing services for searching recipes allow ingredient names or recipe names as search input. We propose a system that allows searching recipes based on the users' mood. To develop the system, we gather words to express a user's mood when making a menu decision and classify them according to their relationship. We determine six aspects of a user's mood. The result of our preliminary experiment and a questionnaire-based survey show that our method describes a user's mood when deciding for a menu and that the system helps in the decision-making. Furthermore, we propose a method for automatically generating recipe metadata, which we plan to add to our system.