W3C Workshop on Emotion Markup Language — Agenda

5-6 October 2010

Hosted by Telecom ParisTech, Paris, France

Day1 - 5 October 2010

9:00-9:20 Session1: Welcome

Welcome and logistics — Catherine Pelachaud
Introduction to the W3C Emotion Markup Language Workshop — Kaz Ashimura
Self introduction by all the attendees

9:20-10:55 Session2: Introduction

Moderator:: Kaz Ashimura
Scribe:: Tim Llewellynn

→ 20-min presentation

Overview of Emotion Markup Language and its applications — Marc Schröder (DFKI) [ Slides ]

→ 40-min presentation

Invited Talk: Challenge of representing emotional colouring — Roddy Cowie (Queen's University Belfast) [ Slides ]

→ 10-min Q&A

(10:55-11:25 Morning Break)

11:25-13:00 Session3: Emotion Theories

Moderator:: Kaz Ashimura
Scribe:: Catherine Pelachaud

→ 15-min presentation x 2 (=30mins)

Mental Ingredients as a route to Emotion Markup Language — Isabella Poggi & Francesca D'Errico (Roma Tre University) [ Paper / Main Slides / Supplementary slide 1 / Supplementary slide 2 ]
The need to represent emotion-related states in EmotionML — Marc Schröder (DFKI) [ Paper / Slides ]

→ 60-min discussion including brief summarization of topics discussed during the session

(13:00-14:00 Lunch)

14:00-15:30 Session4: Emotion Theories (Contd.)

Moderator:: Felix Burkhardt
Scribe:: Marc Schröder

→ 15-min presentaion x 2 (=30mins)

Tracking and Influencing Trainee Emotions in a Crisis-Planning Scenaro — Lachlan Mackinnon, Gill Windall & Liz Bacon (University of Greenwich) [ Paper / Slides ]
Using crowdsourcing for labelling emotional speech assets — Alexey Tarasov, Charlie Cullen & Sarah Jane Delany (Dublin Institute of Technology) [ Paper / Slides ]

→ 60-min discussion including brief summarization of topics discussed during the session

(15:30-16:00 Afternoon Break)

16:00-17:30 Session5: Use cases of Emotion Markup Language

Moderator:: Marc Schröder
Scribe:: Laurent Ach / Marc Schröder

→ 15-min presentaion x 3 (=45mins)

EmotionML: a language for embodied conversational agents — Enrico Zovato, Paolo Baggia & Davide Bonardo (Loquendo) [ Paper / Slides ]
"Requirements for an Emotional Markup Language with Voice Portal Applications in Mind - a Position Paper" — Felix Burkhardt (Deutsche Telekom Laboratories) [ Paper / Slides ]
Use of Emotions in Living Actor Applications — Laurent Ach (Cantoche) [ Slides ]

→ 45-min discussion including brief summarization of topics discussed during the session

(17:30 Day1 ends)

Note. Scribes for October 5 submit their session summaries to Kazuyuki Ashimura at <ashimura@w3.org>.

(19:00- Dinner)

Day2 - 6 October 2010

9:00-11:00 Session6: Use cases of Emotion Markup Language (Contd.)

Moderator:: Davide Bonardo
Scribe:: Catherine Pelachaud

→ 15-min presentaion x 3 (=45mins)

Position paper for the W3C Workshop on Emotion Markup Language — Takeshi Natsuno (Dwango/Keio University) [ Paper / Slides ]
Implications of Multimodal Sensing for an Emotion Markup Language — Christian Peter (Fraunhofer IGD/Graz University) [ Paper / Slides (TBD) ]
Emotions in Consumer and Marketing Research — Tim Llewellynnion (nViso) [ Paper / Slides (TBD) ]

→ 45-min discussion including brief summarization of topics discussed during the session

(11:00-11:30 Morning Break)

11:30-13:00 Session7: Dedicated discussion session

Moderator:: Marc Schröder
Scribe:: Sarah Jane Delany

In this session we will first review topics discussed during the previous sessions, do a preliminary vote, and decide which topics to discuss in detail. And then we will have detailed discussion about those topics.

Tally of the preliminary vote:

List of channels/modalities:	8
Scales:	7
Vocabularies:	4
Timing mechanism:	3

We discussed "Scales" during session7.

(13:00-14:00 Lunch)

14:00-16:00 Session8: Reports from breakout sessions

Moderator:: Marc Schröder
Scribe:: Kaz Ashimura (main group) / Catherine Pelachaud (smaller group)

We will split into two subgroups. Each group will need to select a scribe/spokesperson.

The main group discussed "Vocabulary" topic, and the smaller group consisting of Roddy and Catherine dicussed "Channels/Modalities" topic.

(16:00-16:20 Afternoon Break)

16:20-17:30 Session9: Summarization — Prioritize use cases/requirements & identify potential extensions of EmotionML

Moderator:: Marc Schröder
Scribe:: Felix Burkhardt

Each group will clarify the following topics on their use cases and requirements and write them down on the flipcharts:

Is the current list of recommended vocabularies scientifically sound and defendable? Should descriptions be added, removed, or presented differently?
Does the specification have sufficient expressive power? Can it represent what people need to represent?
Is EmotionML easy enough to use, or should the syntax be changed somehow to avoid any confusions etc.?

For the top 5 use cases, identify potential extensions of EmotionML.

(17:30 Workshop ends)

Note. Scribes for October 6 submit their session summaries to Kazuyuki Ashimura at <ashimura@w3.org>.

The Call for Participation, the Logistics Information and the Presentation Guideline are also available on the W3C Web server.

Marc Schröder, Catherine Pelachaud, Deborah Dahl and Kazuyuki Ashimura, Workshop Organizing Committee

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