RE: [humanmarkup-comment] HMU.newmedia: Emotion

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

I have to study this further, but, just a reminder: we are building a
markup language that needs to account for use in scene graphs, and
plain text, and messaging, and voiceXML, if possible, as well as a
host of other applications. How we embed, or encode emotion is one of
our tasks.

It is important to keep the requirements of the applications/uses in
mind as we develop the tags, the schemata, the document models, the
scene graph models, the streaming models/protocols, the adaptations
of artificial intelligence which use chaos and game theory, the
psychological models which are informed by that set of schools of
thought, and of course, informing us overall, semiotics.

Ciao,
Rex

At 9:46 AM -0600 11/5/01, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
>Communicating Emotion: Social, Moral, and Cultural Processes
>http://assets.cambridge.org/0521553156/sample/0521553156WSN01.pdf
>
>There is a sample of one chapter.  I am reacting only to that.
>
>Advocates a process model for emotions.  This is what we talked
>about earlier.  A model as simple as IDEF0 could be used to organize
>or describe a human emotional process model, however, for a real time
>system, the scene graph model such as expressed in VRML or IDEF0 will be
>more useful for actually creating a program because IDEF0 does not
>account for sequencing/time.  Also, color is an inadequate metaphor
>for emotion.  If a process, it is more like a musical note with a
>duration, (attack, decay, sustain, release).
>
>What you are providing  Ranjeeth, is a pairwise codelist.  This is useful
>for creating lists of events or states that must be accounted for
>but unless one has a process model, there is no useful way to organize this
>in a real time model.  It is more a select list.   We really do
>need a real time model and the most widely used on the web is VRML.
>Scene graph concepts are better for this than XML.  Much better.
>
>len
>
>*************************************
>
>Emotion As Process
>
>1.  Object, causes, events 2. appraisal  3.  Physiological change  4.
>Action tendancy/action/expression
>5.  Regulation
>
>My comments:
>
>A basic IDEF0 model (inputs, controls, outputs, mechanism) can model this
>initially.  Requires
>additional layers for timing, sequencing.  Very complex for anything above a
>single human
>object.
>
>Event -> (process under set of controls - internally regulated systems
>(recursive processes)) -> output 
>(note:misses feedback loop)
>
>Understand moods and emotions as internal processes that route to external
>expressions including
>physiological reactions.  Events are seldom the only cause of a response.
>The output depends
>on the internal processes that cascade outputs up the process nest.
>
>Account for emotional transference:  directing output at target not
>originally cause of stimulus.
>Thus creating incoherent or phasing effects in the feedback (loss of
>predictability).  Discuss effect
>on movement toward away or circling goal, an incoherent path (loss of
>focus).
>
>Multiple conditions such as sensitivity to particular inputs affect results.
>Some people are very
>aware of social conditions (zeitgeist) and react as they think they are
>expected to.  Some are
>not aware of this.  Awareness as a summary of domains of focus is very
>important.  Some inputs never
>reach some processes.  Filters are created to accept or reject some stimuli
>and internally, the
>relationship to the sender determines the reaction based on the event type
>(who do you love?
>what have they done for you lately?)
>
>Emotional effects ramp up and down.  They do not endure.  ADSR.  They are
>more like a musical
>note than a color.  If a color, they cycle (like a real mood ring).  They
>also habituate
>(don't always get the same response over time because the human habituates
>to the stimulus).
>
>Outputs:  set body states (posture, color, tone of conversation), set
>actions (converse,
>move (toward, away, circle), inaction)
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ranjeeth Kumar Thunga [mailto:rkthunga@humanmarkup.org]
>
>We can eventually "spin-off" the emotions frameworks from our HM.frameworks
>document, as it is sufficiently developed...
>
>----------
>Ranjeeth Kumar Thunga
>
>
>
>EMOTIONS (***AS IT CURRENTLY STANDS)
>-----------
>     generalWestern
>         Amusement   weariness
>  Anger    patience
>  Appreciation   envy
>  Caution    rashness
>  Closeness   distance
>  Completion   incompleteness
>  Courage    cowardice
>  Discovery   confusion
>  Familiarity   mystery
>  Fear    security
>  Gain    loss
>  Guilt    innocence
>  Happiness   unhappiness
>  Love    hatred
>  Pain    pleasure
>  Pity    cruelty
>  Pride    shame
>  Relaxation   stress
>  Respect    disrespect
>  Surprise    expectation
>  Togetherness    privacy
>  Wonder     commonplace
>  Sorrow    reverence
>  Regret    Relief
>  Aggravation   Cheerfulness
>  Dejection   Rejoicing
>  Lamentation   Amusement
>  Weariness   Wit
>  Dullness   Humorless
>     Eastern
>
>
>References:
>-----
>
>Nico H. Frijda.
>"The Emotions": Studies in Emotion & Social Interaction.
>http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/documents/disk0/00/00/04/69/
>
>
>Communicating Emotion: Social, Moral, and Cultural Processes
>http://assets.cambridge.org/0521553156/sample/0521553156WSN01.pdf
>
>
>
>--------------------------------------------------------------
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Rob Nixon" <rnixon@qdyn.com>
>To: "Ranjeeth Kumar Thunga" <rkthunga@humanmarkup.org>
>Cc: "OASIS Comment" <humanmarkup-comment@lists.oasis-open.org>
>Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2001 2:06 PM
>Subject: Re: [humanmarkup-comment] HMU.newmedia: Emotion
>
>
>>  Here is a paper by Sally Planalp of the University of Montana that could
>also
>>  act as a reference.
>>
>>  Communicating Emotion: Social, Moral, and Cultural Processes
>>
>>  http://assets.cambridge.org/0521553156/sample/0521553156WSN01.pdf
>>
>>  Rob
>>
>>  Ranjeeth Kumar Thunga wrote:
>>
>>  > Thanks for the reference.  I personally am not...if you have a good URL
>>  > reference or summarize the content, that would help.
>>  >
>>  > Regardless, I've added the reference to the HM.frameworks document under
>>  > EMOTIONS.
>>  > ------
>>  >
>>  > Ranjeeth Kumar Thunga
>>  >
>>
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