Recommending content of streaming media by a cognitive system in an infrastructure

A computer system for using emotional analysis to recommend streaming media content by a cognitive system in an infrastructure, the computer system comprising:

• one or more processors, one or more computer readable tangible storage devices, and program instructions stored on at least one of the one or more computer readable tangible storage devices for execution by at least one of the one or more processors, the program instructions executable to:
• receive from at least one of a mobile device and a camera, by the cognitive system in the infrastructure, information of at least one of biometrics, movement, body language, and facial expression of a user, wherein the at least one of the biometrics, the movement, the body language, and the facial expression is captured by the at least one of the mobile device and the camera while the user is consuming current streaming media content provided by a streaming media service;
• derive, by the cognitive system, a current emotional state of the user, based on the information of the at least one of the biometrics, the movement, the body language, and the facial expression;
• match, by the cognitive system, the current emotional state to one of previous emotional states of the user, wherein information of the previous emotional states is stored in a repository in the infrastructure;
• and
• send to the streaming media service, by the cognitive system, a recommendation on streaming media content to be consumed by the user, wherein the cognitive system provides the recommendation to the streaming media service based on streaming media content that has been consumed by the user in the one of the previous emotional states, wherein information of the streaming media content that has been consumed by the user is stored in the repository in the infrastructure.