Abstract: An information processing system, comprises a data acquirer that acquires an image captured by a vehicle-mounted camera included in a first vehicle, and positional information of the first vehicle; an analyzer that analyzes a road condition in a periphery of the first vehicle based on one or more images that have been acquired; and an evaluator that assigns a cost value to a spot or a road link included in map data based on a result of analyzing the road condition and positional information corresponding to the image.

Abstract: An information providing device is provided, which provides a user with information on driving circumstances of a vehicle by using a plurality of characters as interfaces. The information providing device includes: a collection unit configured to determine information to be provided to the user, based on information acquired by one or more sensing units installed in the vehicle; an utterance generation unit configured to generate a content of utterance to be given by each of the characters, based on the determined information; and an output unit configured to cause each of the characters to give the utterance in order to provide the user with the information.