Understanding Diverse Interpretations of Animated GIFs
Animated GIFs are increasingly popular in text-based communication. Like other forms of nonverbal communication, animated GIFs are susceptible to open…
Research Paper
Multi-moji: Combining Thermal, Vibrotactile & Visual Stimuli to Expand the Affective Range of Feedback
This paper explores the combination of multiple concurrent modalities for conveying emotional information in HCI: temperature, vibration and abstract visual…
Face2Emoji: Using Facial Emotional Expressions to Filter Emojis
One way to indicate nonverbal cues is by sending emoji (e.g., ), which requires users to make a selection from…
Goodbye Text, Hello Emoji: Mobile Communication on WeChat in China
We present a qualitative study of mobile communication via WeChat in Southern China, focusing on the rapid proliferation of emoji…
Through a Gender Lens: Learning Usage Patterns of Emojis from Large-Scale Android Users
Based on a large data set of emoji using behavior collected from smartphone users over the world, this paper investigates…
Spice up Your Chat: The Intentions and Sentiment Effects of Using Emoji
Emojis, as a new way of conveying nonverbal cues, are widely adopted in computer-mediated communications. In this paper, first from…
Untangling Emoji Popularity through Semantic Embeddings
Emojis have gone viral on the Internet across platforms and devices. Interwoven into our daily communications, they have become a…
Are Emojis Predictable?
Emojis are ideograms which are naturally combined with plain text to visually complement or condense the meaning of a message….
“Nice Picture Comment!” Graphicons in Facebook Comment Threads
Facebook has increasingly incorporated graphical means of communication such as emoticons, emoji, stickers, GIFs, images, and videos (‘graphicons’) into comment…
Revealing Patterns of Twitter Emoji. Usage in Barcelona and Madrid
Emojis are small sized images which are naturally combined with free text to visually complement or condense the meaning of…