Emotion Markup Language (EmotionML 1.0) and Vocabularies for EmotionML published

The W3C Multimodal Interaction Working Group is pleased to announce the
publication of the Last Call Working Draft of the Emotion Markup Language
(EmotionML) specification, and the First Public Working Draft of
Vocabularies for EmotionML. 
(from the EmotionML introduction) Human emotions are increasingly understood
to be a crucial aspect in human-machine interactive systems. Especially for
non-expert end users, reactions to complex intelligent systems resemble
social interactions, involving feelings such as frustration, impatience, or
helplessness if things go wrong. Furthermore, technology is increasingly
used to observe human-to-human interactions, such as customer frustration
monitoring in call center applications. Dealing with these kinds of states
in technological systems requires a suitable representation, which should
make the concepts and descriptions developed in the affective sciences
available for use in technological contexts.
Emotion Markup Language (EmotionML) 1.0 specifies a markup language designed
to be usable in a broad variety of technological contexts while reflecting
concepts from the affective sciences. 
Vocabularies for EmotionML provides a list of emotion vocabularies that can
be used with EmotionML to represent emotions and related states.

The Multimodal Interaction Working Group invites your feedback on both of
these documents.
1. Emotion Markup Language (EmotionML) 1.0

Document URI.
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This version:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-emotionml-20110407/

Latest version:
http://www.w3.org/TR/emotionml/

Previous version:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-emotionml-20100729/

Review end date.
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The Last Call period ends on June 7, 2011.

2. Vocabularies for EmotionML

Document URI.
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This version:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-emotion-voc-20110407/

Latest version:
http://www.w3.org/TR/emotion-voc/

Previous version:
This is the first publication of Vocabularies for EmotionML

Instructions for providing feedback.
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text "[EMOTION]" in the subject, preferably like this: "[EMOTION] .summary
of comment."


Best regards,

Deborah Dahl, Multimodal Interaction Working Group Chair
for the Multimodal Interaction Working Group

Received on Thursday, 14 April 2011 13:16:25 UTC