Extracting Emotions from Users’ Annotations in Virtual Museums: a Case Study on the Pop-up VR Museum of the Design Museum Helsinki

The paper presents a combined approach to knowledge-based emotion attribution and classification of cultural items employed in the H2020 EU project SPICE (Social cohesion, Participation, and Inclusion through Cultural Engagement)¹. In particular, we describe an experimentation conducted on a selection of items contributed by the virtual museum (Pop-up VR Museum) of Finnish design objects, created by the Design Museum Helsinki in cooperation with the Aalto University. The results show an overlapping between the emotional labels extracted from the user-generated stories attached to the objects in the collection and the emotional annotations created by the audience during the virtual visit of the collection.