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

(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:
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: The Last Call period ends on June 7, 2011.

2. Vocabularies for EmotionML

Document URI:
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

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