Patent ID: 8561095

Claim:
A system comprising: a receiver for receiving and displaying television programming; at least one sensor for sensing a physical reaction by a viewer viewing the displayed programming and generating a signal representative of the physical reaction; a processor for receiving and analyzing the signal representative of the physical reaction to determine if it can be associated with at least one recognizable viewer emotional response, whereupon satisfying said determination the processor associates the at least one recognizable viewer response with descriptive information that was being displayed during a time-stamped program segment of the displayed programming when the physical reaction was sensed by the at least one sensor, to provide a viewer preference relating to the descriptive information; a memory device for storing the association between the programming description displayed during the time-stamped program segment and said sensed physical reaction as the viewer preference; a monitoring system that monitors subsequent programs that become available to be displayed; a recommender that is configured to recommend subsequent programs based on the viewer preference; and a notification system for notifying and/or presenting a subsequent program based on the viewer preference.