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2015

• 8 September 2015: First Public Working Draft: EMMA: Extensible MultiModal Annotation markup language Version 2.0
  The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has published a Working Draft of EMMA: Extensible MultiModal Annotation markup language Version 2.0. This specification describes markup for representing interpretations of user input (speech, keystrokes, pen input, etc.) and productions of system output together with annotations for confidence scores, timestamps, medium, etc. It forms part of the proposals for the W3C Multimodal Interaction Framework.
• 23 June 2015: New charter for the Multimodal Interaction Working Group approved
  The W3C Multimodal Interaction Working Group has been rechartered to continue its work through 31 December 2016. As we interact with technology through more and more diverse devices, the critical need for standards for multimodal interaction becomes increasingly clear. See also the announcement sent to the MMI public list for more information.
• 11 June 2015: "Discovery & Registration of Multimodal Modality Components: State Handling" is published as a First Public Working Draft
  The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has published a Working Draft of Discovery & Registration of Multimodal Modality Components: State Handling. This document is addressed to people who want either to develop Modality Components for Multimodal Applications distributed over a local network or “in the cloud”. With this goal, in a multimodal system implemented according to the Multimodal Architecture Specification, the system must discover and register its Modality Components in order to preserve the overall state of the distributed elements. In this way, Modality Components can be composed with automation mechanisms in order to adapt the Application to the state of the surrounding environment. Learn more about the Multimodal Interaction Activity.

2014

• 22 May 2014: Emotion Markup Language (EmotionML) 1.0 is a W3C Recommendation
  The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has published a W3C Recommendation of Emotion Markup Language (EmotionML) 1.0. As the Web is becoming ubiquitous, interactive, and multimodal, technology needs to deal increasingly with human factors, including emotions. The specification of Emotion Markup Language 1.0 aims to strike a balance between practical applicability and scientific well-foundedness. The language is conceived as a “plug-in” language suitable for use in three different areas: (1) manual annotation of data; (2) automatic recognition of emotion-related states from user behavior; and (3) generation of emotion-related system behavior. Learn more about the Multimodal Interaction Activity.

2013

• 24 September 2013: W3C Webinar: Discovery in Distributed Multimodal Interaction
  The second MMI webinar on "Discovery in Distributed Multimodal Interaction" will be held on September 24, 2013, at 11:00 a.m. ET.
  Prior to this second webinar, the MMI-WG held the W3C Workshop on Rich Multimodal Application Development on July 22-23 in New York Metropolitan Area, US, and identified that distributed/dynamic applications depend on the ability of devices and environments to find each other and learn what modalities they support. Therefore this second webinar will focus on the topic of device/service discovery to handle Modality Components of the MMI Architecture dynamically.
  The discussion during the webinar will interest anyone who wants to take advantage of the dramatic increase in new interaction modes, whether for health care, financial services, broadcasting, automotive, gaming, or consumer devices.
  Several experts from the industry and analyst communities will share their experiences and views on the explosive growth of opportunities for the development of applications that provide enhanced multimodal user-experiences. Read more and register for the webinar.
• 22-23 July 2013: The W3C Workshop on Rich Multimodal Application Development will be held on 22-23 July 2013 in New York Metropolitan Area, US.
• 27 June 2013: The Second Working Draft of EMMA 1.1 is published. Changes from the previous Working Draft can be found in the Status of This Document section of the specification.
• 16 April 2013: The Proposed Recommendation of Emotion Markup Language (EmotionML) 1.0 is published. Changes from the previous Working Draft can be found in Appendix C of the specification.
• 31 January 2013: The Webinar on “Developing Portable Mobile Applications with Compelling User Experience using the W3C MMI Architecture” will be held on January 31, 2013, at 11:00 a.m. ET. The 90-minute webinar is aimed at Web developers who may find it daunting to incorporate innovative input and output methods such as speech, touch, gesture and swipe into their applications, given the diversity of mobile devices and programming techniques available today. Read more and register for the webinar. See also the official announcement on the W3C Top Page.

2012

• 25 October 2012: Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces is a W3C Recommendation.
• 14 August 2012: Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces is a W3C Proposed Recommendation.
• 5 July 2012: Registration & Discovery of Multimodal Modality Components in Multimodal Systems: Use Cases and Requirements is published as a Working Group Note.
• 10 May 2012: The Candidate Recommendation of Emotion Markup Language (EmotionML) 1.0 is published. Changes from the previous Working Draft can be found in Appendix C of the specification.
  Also Vocabularies for EmotionML is published as a Working Group Note. This document was previously published as a Working Draft. However, the group has decided that it would be more appropriate as a Note because it is not intended to progress to Recommendation.
• 9 February 2012: EMMA: Extensible MultiModal Annotation markup language Version 1.1 is published as a First Public Working Draft.
• 24 January 2012: MMI interoperability test report is published as a Working Group Note.
• 12 January 2012: Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces is a W3C Candidate Recommendation (See also the group's Implementation Report Plan).
• 9 January 2012: The Multimodal Interaction Working Group is relaunched. See the updated charter.

2011

• 20 September 2011: Ink Markup Language (InkML) is a W3C Recommendation.
• 6 September 2011: The second Last Call Working Draft of Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces is published.
  The main normative change from the previous draft is removing the 'immediate' field from the following Life Cycle Events: CancelRequest, PauseRequest.
• 4-5 June 2011: The World Wide Web Foundation is organizing the Workshop on Mobile and Web Technologies in Social and Economic Development in Tanzaniaunce. The workshop is about themes that are dear to the foundation and related to multi-channel data collection using Web technologies. See also the official announcement on the foundation's site.
• 10 May 2011: Ink Markup Language (InkML) is a W3C Proposed Recommendation.
• 8 April 2011: The Last Call Working Draft of Emotion Markup Language (EmotionML) 1.0 is published. The main change from the previous draft is the inclusion of a mechanism for defining emotion vocabularies. A precise list of changes from the previous draft is also available for comparison purposes.
  Also Vocabularies for EmotionML is published as a First Public Working Draft. This document represents a public collection of emotion vocabularies that can be used with EmotionML to represent emotions and related states. It was originally part of an earlier draft of the EmotionML specification, but was moved out of it so that we can easily update, extend and correct the list of vocabularies as required.
• 1 Mach 2011: Best practices for creating MMI Modality Components is published as a Working Group Note.
• 25 January 2011: The Last Call Working Draft of Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces is published.
  The main change from the previous draft is the tightening of the language to make the requirements more precise. A diff-marked version is also available for comparison purposes.
• 11 January 2011: Ink Markup Language (InkML) is a W3C Candidate Recommendation (See also the group's Implementation Report Plan).

2010

• 5-6 October 2010: The EmotionML Workshop was held in Paris, France, hosted by Telecom ParisTech. The summary and detailed minutes are available online. Participants from 12 organizations discussed use cases of possible emotion-ready applications and clarified several key requirements for the current EmotionML to make the specification even more useful.
• 21 September 2010: The seventh Working Draft of Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces is published.
  The main changes from the previous draft are (1) the inclusion of state charts for modality components, (2) the addition of a 'confidential' field to life-cycle events and (3) the removal of the 'media' field from life-cycle events. A diff-marked version is also available for comparison purposes.
• 29 July 2010: The second Working Draft of Emotion Markup Language (EmotionML) 1.0 is published. A diff-marked version is also available for comparison purposes.
  Please send your comments to the Multimodal Interaction public mailing list (<www-multimodal@w3.org>).
• 18-19 June 2010: The workshop on Conversational Applications was held in Somerset, NJ, (USA), hosted by Openstream. The summary and detailed minutes are available online. Participants from 12 organizations fucused discussion on the use cases of possible conversational applications and clarified limitations of the current W3C language model in order to develop a more comprehensive one.
• 18-19 June 2010: Workshop on Conversational Applications will be held in Somerset, NJ, (USA), hosted by Openstream.
  
  *** The deadline to send position papers is now extended to April 30. ***
  
  Please see the Call for Participation for details. To participate in the Workshop, please submit a position paper (either as an individual or organization) to <team-convapps-ws-submit@w3.org> by 11:59 EDT on 30 April 2010.
  
  To help with planning, please let us know as soon as possible if you are interested in attending by sending the following information to <team-convapps-ws-submit@w3.org>:
  • that a representative from your organization plans to submit a position paper
  • how many participants you want to send to the workshop (either one or two)
  • whether or not you wish to make a presentation during the workshop
• 27 May 2010: The second Last Call Working Draft of Ink Markup Language (InkML) is published.
  This draft incorporates a small number of extensions to the previous version, including that channels can now report values of floating point type, and brush properties may be specified. A diff-marked version is also available for comparison purposes.
  Please send your comments to the Multimodal Interaction public mailing list (<www-multimodal@w3.org>) by 17 June 2010. When sending e-mail, please put the text "[ink]" in the subject, preferably like this: "[ink] .summary of comment."

2009

• 15 December 2009: Use Cases for Possible Future EMMA Features is published as a Working Group Note.
• 29 October 2009: The sixth Working Draft of Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces is published.
  The document as a whole has changed significantly and the group welcomes review. The main changes from the previous draft are (1) clarifying the relationship to EMMA, (2) simplifying the architecture constituents, (3) adding a description on HTTP transport of lifecycle events and (4) adding an example of handwriting recognition modality component. A diff-marked version is also available for comparison purposes.
• 29 October 2009: Emotion Markup Language (EmotionML) 1.0 is published as a First Public Working Draft.
• 19 August 2009: The Multimodal Interaction Working Group is relaunched. The updated charter is available on the W3C Web server.
• 11 June 2009: The Workshop on using Ink in Multimodal Applications within the W3C's Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces is canceled due to limited participation caused by the influenza pandemic.
• 10 February 2009: EMMA: Extensible MultiModal Annotation markup language is a W3C Recommendation. (press release)

2008

• 15 December 2008: EMMA: Extensible MultiModal Annotation markup language is a W3C Proposed Recommendation.
• 16 October 2008: Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces: Fifth Working Draft is published.
• 23 September, 2008: Implementation Report Plan of Extensible MultiModal Annotation markup language (EMMA) Candidate Recommendation is modified. Following test assertions have been removed from the Implementation Report Plan document, because they are actually not described in the EMMA specification: 801, 902, 903 and 1501. Please see the announcement sent to the Multimodal Interaction public list for the details on the modification.
• 2 July 2008: Authoring Applications for the Multimodal Architecture : First Public Working Group Note is published.
• 28 April 2008: A reminder on the implementation reports for the Extensible MultiModal Annotation markup language (EMMA) specification sent out. The Multimodal Interaction Working Group very much welcome implementation reports. The reports should be sent to www-multimodal@w3.org in the format described in the implementation report plan.
• 14 April 2008: Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces: Fourth Working Draft is published.
• 3-7 March, 2008: MMIWG f2f meeting was held in Orlando, US, on 3-7 March 2008, hosted by Voxeo. MMI Architecture workshop feedback, topics for the next MMI Architecture and the need of guidelines for integrating a modality into the MMI Architecture were discussed jointly with the VBWG.
• 22 January, 2008: Implementation Report Plan of "EMMA: Extensible MultiModal Annotation markup language" Candidate Recommendation is modified with following point:
  • The minimum Candidate Recommendation period in the Implementation Report Plan is modified from "?? 2007" to "14 April 2008" as defined in the Candidate Recommendation.

2007

• 11 December, 2007: EMMA: Extensible MultiModal Annotation markup language is a W3C Candidate Recommendation. (See also Implementation Report Plan)
• 16-17 November, 2007: Workshop on W3C's Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces was held at Keio University in Japan. The Call for Participation, the Agenda, the Minutes, the Summary are available. The Issue List raised during the workshop is also available.
• 28 August 2007: The Workshop on W3C's Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces will be held at Keio University in Fujisawa, Japan on 16-17 November 2007. Position papers are due 5 October.
• 11 May 2007: Jerry Carter (Nuance), Rafah Hosn (IBM) and Kaz Ashimura (W3C) gave talks on "Multimodal Web to Expand Universal Access" at W3C Track in WWW2007 Conference, Banff, Canada.
• 9 April 2007: Second Last Call Working Draft for EMMA: Extensible MultiModal Annotation markup language
• 30 March 2007: The Multimodal Interaction Working Group is relaunched. The updated charter is available on the W3C Web server.

2006

• Third Working Draft for the Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces, 11 Decembrer 2006
• InkML slides presented at IWFHR 2006 are available, 24 October 2006
• Last Call Working Draft for the Ink Markup Language (InkML) , 23 October 2006 (Comments invited by 18 December 2006)
• Common Sense Suggestions for Developing Multimodal User Interfaces, 11 September 2006
• Working Group Note on Multimodal Application Developer Feedback, 14 April 2006
• Second Working Draft for the Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces, 14 April 2006

2005

• Last Call Working Draft for the Extensible Multimodal Annotation Markup Language specification - 16 September 2005 (Comments invited by 28 October 2005)
• W3C Seminar on Multimodal Web Applications for Embedded Systems - 21 June 2005

2004

• Last Call Working Draft for the Dynamic Properties Framework specification - 11 November 2004 (formerly called the System and Environment framework)
• InkML specification - 28 September 2004
• W3C Workshop on Multimodal Interaction - 19-20 July 2004, Sophia Antipolis, France. (schedule, papers.)
• Modality Component Interface Requirements and Capabilities - 10 May 2004

2003

• Multimodal Interaction Framework - 6 May 2003
• Ink Requirements - 22 January 2003
• EMMA Requirements - 13 January 2003
• Multimodal Interaction Requirements - 8 January 2003
• Multimodal Interaction Use Cases - 4 December 2002

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