To automatically generate information representing a context in which a user is placed. An information processing device according to the present disclosure comprises: a recognition processing unit which, on the basis of environment information including at least one of location information which represents a location at which a user is present, image information relating to the environment in which the user is placed, and/or audio information relating to the environment, carries out at specified intervals an analysis process of at least one of the location information, image information, and/or audio information included in the user environment information, and, using the obtained result of the analysis relating to the user environment, recognizes the context in which the user is placed; and a context candidate information generating unit which, using the result of the recognition of the context from the recognition processing unit, generates context candidate information which represents a candidate of the context in which the user is placed, said context candidate information including at least information which represents the context in which the user is placed and information which represents the emotions of the user with respect to the context.