RE: HumanMarkup Reservations

[Ranjeeth Kumar Thunga <rkthunga@humanmarkup.org>]

> I apologize if I'm treading on old wounds that have somewhat healed, but
it
> is precisely at those old wounds that the most significant action takes
> place. To jump metaphors back to the one Len was using, you may have built
> the most beautiful cathedral in the world on a site, but if what was
really
> needed there was an office building then, yes, it may be worth tearing it
> down some and re-examining old assumptions.
>

As Len pointed out in YahooGroups a while back as well, I think that
approaching from different perspectives will ensure the robustness of the
markup descriptors we create.  We are describing the same information, but
coming from different backgrounds and applications in mind, we ensure that
the data is indeed independent from the applications which processes it.

For example, there will not be a black and white distinction between 'real
human' and 'virtual human' characteristics.  Online agents may be designed
to represent some default characteristics, in addition to characteristics of
its real-life counterpart.

That's the approach I think we have now.  As time and viewpoints are
incorporated, this certainly may change completely.  However, with the tools
that we now have available (and you would probably be able to speak with
more authority), we can design very specific, explicit mappings between
different human frameworks as represented by different HumanML modules.

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Ranjeeth Kumar Thunga
rkthunga@humanmarkup.org
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