Abstract—The book reviews on picture books have different characteristics with other book reviews in terms of reviewers’ reading styles. Generally, picture books are for the infants who are not capable of reading printing letters. Parents or childcare persons are readers who read them aloud. Meanwhile, infants perceive the meaning by listening to the voice and watching the pictures. This reading style frees infants from interpreting the printing letters, and enables them to activate their behavioral expression based on the stimuli from picture books. We extract the book reviews on picture books written on the Web site specialized in picture books, and found that those reviews reflect infants’ behavioral expressions as well as their parents’ reading activities in detail. Analysis of the reviews reveals that infants’ reactions written on the reviews are coincident with the findings of developmental psychology concerning infants’ behaviors. Additionally, patterns of the infants’ reactions are found to be affected by the characteristics of the picture books such as rhythms of the phrases and visual effects of the pictures etc. Based on these findings, we constructed a recommendation system which recommends picture books which might induce expected infants’ reactions specified by the users.

 

Index Terms—picture books, review analysis, recommendation system

Cite: Hiroshi Uehara, Mizuho Baba, and Takehito Utsuro, "Analyzing an Infant’s Reactions in Reviews on Picture Books Based on Developmental Psychology," International Journal of Signal Processing Systems, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 311-317, August 2016. doi: 10.18178/ijsps.4.4.311-317