[humanmarkup] Jan. Meeting Minutes

1) Rex Brooks joined the Web Services for Interactive Applications TC by official request and attending the first face to face meetings held at IBM's Watson Reserach Center in Hawthorne, New York Jan. 7-9, 2002.

Rex reviewed the proceedings of the meetings of the WSIA TC, which formalized its new name, changing from the originally posted as Web Services Component Model TC to Web Services for Interactive Applications in order to clarify its focus on facilitating the delivery of Web Services through the chain of intermediaries from service source to end user interface.

Rex explained that in essence the liaison effort is a way for the OASIS HumanMarkup TC to synchronize its efforts with this closely related effort and to use the contacts in the WSIA TC to help gather requirements for HumanMarkup TC, which is due March 15, 2002, as decided without dissent from December's HumanMarkup TC meeting.

2) Ranjeeth explained that the non-profit corporation that he, Joseph Norris, and Rex Brooks have established, named Humanmarkup.org, Inc. has refocused its efforts upon supporting the work of the OASIS HumanMarkup TC, more than attempting to develop applications of the Human Markup Language Specification. This clarification was based on recent meetings of that organization separate from the HumanMarkup TC, and it was felt that this needed to be public knowledge.

After reviewing these agenda items, the meeting turned to new business issues and discussion.

Len Bullard suggested that it was important to keep the progress of the HumanMarkup TC moving forward in a more concentrated way, and it was decided, subject to any discussion or vote of the TC list, that the HumanMarkup TC will move directly from receiving the submissions of requirements from application areas as of March 15, 2002, to writing the formal Requirements Document by April 1, 2002, for immediate adoption in the April HumanMarkup TC meeting.

(Note: This coincides with the same timeframe that the WSIA is using for adopting its Requirements Document.)

It is also to be noted that these requirements will be the guiding instruments for developing the Human Markup Language Base Schema and specifying the subsequent development of extended schemas for particular application areas, such as the Human Physical Characteristics Description Markup Language, HumanML_Write/HumanML_Report, and VR-AI.

Ranjeeth explained that his personal development effort for a HumanMarkup Application Area, as yet undefined in terms of whether it will be an extended schema of its own, or a collection of subset modules, will be in the arena of Diplomatic Communications.

Rob Nixon described his work with Quantum Dynamics using a motion capture suit to capture movement sequences and begin associating those movements and gestures with behavioral states, such as emotional states. The group asked several questions and a discussion ensued about the ramifications for this work in beginning the process of establishing a set of gestures which could be associated with emotional states in a more formal way, perhaps using a system of tokenizing these underlying relationships of emotion/behavior associations, and streaming this information.

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