"Affective computing" standards and technology could help computers grasp human emotion. An intuitive user interface sounds nice, but what about information overshare? For all those who believe the computing industry is populated by people who are out of touch with the world of emotion, it's time to think again. TheWorld Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which standardizes many Web technologies, is working on formalizing emotional states in a way that computers can handle. EmotionML combines the rigor of computer programming with the squishiness of human emotion. " But theMultimodal Interaction Working Groupthat's overseeing creation of the technology really does want to marry the two worlds.