The W3C working group Multimodal Interaction Activity, working on universal means for the input and output at different devices, has published a first working draft about a markup language to express emotions. The EmotionML, Emotion Markup Language, is described as a plugin language enabling the manual annotation of data, the automated recognition of emotions and [...]
The W3C has launched a new working group dedicated to device api’s. The task of the “Device APIs and Policy Working Group” is the development of standards, which enable the interaction between device specific applications (e.g. calendars or cameras on mobile phones) and web applications and widgets. To follow the progress of this working group [...]
The W3C has launched an initiative on the education of web professionals. The Open Web Education Alliance aims to assure internet standardization and the development of high quality standards by fostering the knowledge transfer between companies, educational institutions, Web professionals, and students. Directory Sources: Internet Organizations
