HMU.newmedia
last updated:  3 November 2001
(example describing how we could use HumanML to convey emotions in New Media writing)
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PROBLEM:  
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I am a writer.  I write stories for a living.  I love my profession, and I am glad I am able to convey my message and perspectives through the experiences of the characters in my story.  Unfortunately, however, I feel very limited in my ability to express myself, due to the limitations of black and white text.

The World Wide Web has now allowed for much greater possibilites of expression, mixing sound, graphics, colors, and music in so many ways.  Now, I can use various colors, fonts, and styles to express my emotions and expressions much more strikingly and effectively.  However, *how* should I, or could I, do this?




PROPOSED SOLUTION:
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Use Human Markup Language to embed emotions and expressions (i.e. kinesics) within the text of the message.  Then, create a legend of sorts at the bottom of the screen, which conveyes what this means.  Based on style guidelines, new media text could represent far greater pallete of presentation possibilities of textual information.

This would call for the use of "HumanML - XML Schema" and  "HumanML - Style Guidelines"