An XML Language for Emotions?
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Five years ago, Tim Berners-Lee announced his vision of the Semantic Web. Now, the W3C has launched a new activity called the "Emotion Incubator Group," and its purpose is to take us beyond the narrow range of the emoticon to a Web that can incorporate information about emotions into Web pages.
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According to the group's Charter, the group will explore the feasibility of "defining a general-purpose Emotion annotation and representation language, which should be usable in a large variety of technological contexts where emotions need to be represented." The project was proposed by members of an existing European "network of excellence" called the Human-Machine Interaction Network on Emotion (HUMAINE) project, and will use that group's Emotion Annotation and Representation Language (EARL) as a starting point. Although the initiative is intriguing, the project's charter suggests that the practicality of creating an "emotion-enabled" Web remains to be demonstrated. Until they reach an opinion on that point, best hang on to your emoticons. ;- )
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