An Emotion Markup Language (EML or EmotionML) has first been defined by the W3C Emotion Incubator Group (EmoXG) as a general-purpose emotion annotation and representation language, which should be usable in a large variety of technological contexts where emotions need to be represented.
 Emotion-oriented computing (or "affective computing") is gaining importance as interactive technological systems become more sophisticated.
 Representing the emotional states of a user or the emotional states to be simulated by a user interface requires a suitable representation format.
Rosalind Wright Picard (born May 17, 1962 in Massachusetts) is Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT, director and also the founder of the Affective Computing Research Group at the MIT Media Lab, co-director of the Things That Think Consortium, and co-founder of startups Affectiva and Empatica.
 In 2005, she was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
WASABI is a simulation software that aims to simulate emotions for computer systems, esp.
 embodied agents and social robots. Its development is motivated by the ideas behind Affective Computing in that it tries to simulate human affect.
 It provides a graphical user interface based on Qt.
 It is free software under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License.
Jocelyn Scheirer is an American entrepreneur, scientist, and artist who has been working in wearable technology since the late 1990s.
 Her research focuses on Affective Computing, which she pursued while pursuing her PhD (pending) at MIT Media's Lab Affective Computing Group with Rosalind Picard.
 Scheirer invented and, along with MIT, patented the Galvactivator glove which measured skin conductance through sensors on the palm and relayed the varying intensity through an LED display.
Qiang Ji from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2015 for "contributions to automatic facial image processing and affective computing".
Kismet is a robot head made in the late 1990s at Massachusetts Institute of Technology by Dr. Cynthia Breazeal as an experiment in affective computing; a machine that can recognize and simulate emotions.
 The name Kismet comes from a Turkish word meaning "fate" or sometimes "luck".
Maja Pantic (; Belgrade, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia) from the Imperial College, London was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2012 "for contribution to automatic human behavior understanding and affective computing".
Affective computing is the study and development of systems and devices that can recognize, interpret, process, and simulate human affects.
 It is an interdisciplinary field spanning computer science, psychology, and cognitive science.
 While the origins of the field may be traced as far back as to early philosophical inquiries into emotion, the more modern branch of computer science originated with Rosalind Picard's 1995 paper on affective computing.
 A motivation for the research is the ability to simulate empathy.
 The machine should interpret the emotional state of humans and adapt its behavior to them, giving an appropriate response to those emotions.
The notion of affective design emerged from the field of human–computer interaction (HCI) and more specifically from the developing area of affective computing.
 Affective design involves designing interfaces to enable human-computer interactions where emotional information is communicated by the user in a
The Swiss Centre for Affective Sciences (French title 'Centre Interfacultaire en Sciences Affectives' or 'CISA') is an interdisciplinary research centre based in Geneva.
 Founded in 2003, the focus of its research is the emotions or affective science.
 It is one of 20 Swiss Government funded NCCR (National Centres for Competence in Research).
 The centre was headed by Professor Klaus Scherer, is now headed by David Sander, and researches emotions in the areas of cognitive neuroscience, psychology, linguistics, philosophy, economics, archaeology and affective computing.
 It has project focuses in cognitive appraisal, expression, social and legal regulation, norms and values and aesthetic emotions.
 Over 100 researchers from different universities attend in the NCCR Affective Sciences.

Question: The research of Jocelyn Scheirer focuses on Affective Computing, which she pursued while pursuing her PhD (pending) at what university?
Answer: MIT