WIA Emotion AI Standard Guide

The WIA Emotion AI Standard rests on the proposition that understanding human emotion is essential to building technology that genuinely serves people. The ancient Korean philosophy of Hongik Ingan, which this standard adopts as its charter principle, gives a clear answer to the question of who a standard should belong to: humanity in common. That answer is operationalised by releasing the standard text, the conformance simulator, and the reference SDK under the MIT licence at no cost. The standard expresses this value through twenty-four conformance requirements and twelve ethical clauses, organised across four phases (data format, application programming interface, streaming protocol, and integration) and unfolded over eight chapters of the present volume.

Emotion AI , also called Affective Computing , is a multidisciplinary field that combines artificial intelligence, computer science, psychology, and cognitive science to develop systems that recognise, interpret, process, and simulate human emotions. The field reaches beyond classifying pixels of facial expression: it models how emotion participates in human decision-making and social interaction and tries to transfer that capability to machines. It crosses the boundaries of computer vision, natural language processing, signal processing, psychology, neuroscience, anthropology, and ethics, and does not sit comfortably inside a single academic department.