EmotionML 1.0: First Public Working Draft published

The specification can be found at the following address:

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

Over the next months, this specification is expected to mature and eventually to become a "web standard" for representing emotions and related states in technological systems.

The community at large is invited to review the draft and to provide feedback and comments to the following public mailing list:
www-multimodal@w3.org (archives and subscription: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-multimodal/)

Abstract:

As the web is becoming ubiquitous, interactive, and multimodal, technology needs to deal increasingly with human factors, including emotions. The present draft specification of Emotion Markup Language 1.0 aims to strike a balance between practical applicability and scientific well-foundedness. The language is conceived as a "plug-in" language suitable for use in three different areas: (1) manual annotation of data; (2) automatic recognition of emotion-related states from user behavior; and (3) generation of emotion-related system behavior.