[humanmarkup-comment] HM.applications: (revamped)

[Ranjeeth Kumar Thunga <rkthunga@interposting.com>]

In the spirit of document-centricizing our work, I reorganized the list of
possible HumanMarkup applications.
It doesn't fully amalgamate the past posts, but feel free to repost your
ideas.
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/humanmarkup/documents/HM.applications.t
xt

Ranjeeth Kumar Thunga





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HM.APPLICATIONS
last updated: 22 October 2001
(Different types of applications which can use HumanMarkup)
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Agents
	-part AI, part real descriptor of human counterparts
	-markup to enable intelligent agents to possess and dynamically alter
		internal emotional states.

AI systems



Annotations
	-To strip emotional content out of documents
	-Embed emotional/human content within documents
	-Enable searches based on <humanml> information


Avatars



Communications/Dialogue Systems



Conflict Resolution/Prevention Systems



Database



Debate/Discussion
	-end long drawn out debates by coming to explicit terms with human
characteristics including person's intentions, assumptions, motivations, and
arguments




Messaging
	-Mark up to enhance small text messages - email, text chat , SMS
	-Mark up to take advantage of HumanML enhanced browsers
	-Route messages based on human communication factors




Law
   	-interrogations office can use HumanML to embed human
		characteristics within convicts' records
    	-different colors for inter-office email corresponding to 'serious' vs.
	'tongue-in-cheek'
    	-legal proceedings/transcripts can embed humanml information


Music
	- markup to enable automatic mood music generation to accompany text
	passages or scenes, acts ..


New Media
	-Simulation of communications such as creating scenarios that
		can then be rendered into a visualization format
	-poet can strongly enrich presentation of text, words
	- use of visible tags to augment poetry visually i.e. HumanML code poetry
	-Marking up text intended to be used in conjunction with another media form
	-eg comic books




Plays
	-Marking up human behaviour e.g stage directions, choreography, story
	boards
	-Marking up dialog for use in computer-generated theatre, RPGs and talking
		heads
	-Annotation of texts or other communications forms to provide
		meta information for the purpose of interpretation
	-Transformation of annotated texts both in batch and real time
		modes
	(These can be implemented for such tasks as entertainment, what-if
	case exploration, business to business communications, agent-based
	negotiation, and others.)



Profiles
	-Psychological Profiles
	-Marketing Profiles


Psychology/Psychiatry
	-psychiatric case reports can embed explicit psychological
		characteristics within case reports


Psychotherapy Online



Role Playing



Voice Applications
	-marking up text for use in human audio delivery e.g. speaches, HumanML
	enhanced stage directions, RPGs
	-marking up text for machine audio delivery systems
	- automatic marking up of speech to text systems for later reconversion to
		audio
	- automatic marking up of speech to text systems using biometrics
	- automatic marking up of speech to text systems for later reconversion to
		audio with faithful reproduction of emotional voice characteristics
	- use of visible tags to augment poetry visually i.e. HumanML code poetry
	- markup to enable automatic mood music generation to accompany text
		passages or scenes, acts ..
	- markup to enable intelligent agents to possess and dynamically alter
		internal emotional states
	- parsing and marking up existing literature (a la Terry's LFReD ) as an
aid
		to comprehension - useful for archaic or translated documents where use of
adjectives and punctuation my mislead
	- parsing and marking up existing literature to enable searches to be
performed
	- searching a body of literature e.g. Byron for emotional states rather
than keywords