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Emoticon
About: Emoticon is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 381 publications have been published within this topic receiving 4520 citations. The topic is also known as: smiley.
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TL;DR: The importance of emoticon usage for the user is highlighted, through a contextual lens to recognise the influential factors upon these behaviours and the implications this has for digital text-based communication.
120 citations
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31 Oct 2013
TL;DR: In this article, a system for dynamically generating a customized emoticon palette is described, which identifies, according to content analysis, features and associated intended indications extracted from a textual message on a mobile device which are embedded into an emoticon.
Abstract: Systems and methods of dynamically generating a customized emoticon palette are disclosed. An emoticon generation system identifies, according to content analysis, features and associated intended indications extracted from a textual message on a mobile device which are embedded into an emoticon. The sender may select and insert one or more emoticons into a text message. The emoticon is then transmitted from the sender to the recipient along with the associated intended indication such that the recipient can interpret the intended indication when the emoticon is displayed.
119 citations
TL;DR: An exploratory experiment to categorize workplace IM messages into coherent groups, identify the most commonly used emoticons (emblems) for expressing positive, negative, and neutral emotions in the case company, and examine the intention to use emoticons in IM in the workplace showed that negative emoticons could cause a negative effect in both simplex and complex task-oriented communication.
107 citations
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15 Nov 2001TL;DR: In this paper, a method of easily inputting icons representing user emotions (emoticons) was provided for easily accessing emoticons representing users' emotions (e.g., emotions) in mobile terminals.
Abstract: There is provided a method of easily inputting icons representing user emotions (emoticons) In the emoticon input method in a mobile terminal, a plurality of emoticons, formed by utilizing a plurality of typical characters and special characters in combination, are grouped and stored by groups in the mobile terminal The mobile terminal enters an emoticon input mode, displays the stored emoticon groups, displays the emoticons of an emoticon group selected by a user, stores an emoticon selected by the user, and transmits an SMS message including at least one emoticon selected by the user
96 citations
TL;DR: Results generally support earlier findings, indicating that the valence of the cue (smiley or emoticon) affects the corresponding impression formation, whereas smiling smilies have a stronger impact on personal mood than smiling emoticons.
Abstract: Emoticons (ASCII-based character strings) and smilies (pictograms) are widely used in computer-mediated communication as substitutes to compensate for the absence of nonverbal cues. Although their usage has been investigated in numerous studies, it remains open whether they provoke differential effects and whether they lead to person perception patterns similar to what is known from face-to-face interactions. Based on findings from research about person perception and nonverbal communication, we investigated the differential effects of smilies and emoticons with regard to recipients' mood, message evaluation, and person perception in an experimental online study (n=127) with a 2(smiley/emoticon) by 2(positive/negative) between-subjects design (with an additional control condition). Results generally support earlier findings, indicating that the valence of the cue (smiley or emoticon) affects the corresponding impression formation. Further, findings concerning the differential influence of both forms of cues show that there are no differences with regard to message interpretation, whereas smiling smilies have a stronger impact on personal mood than smiling emoticons. The perception of a writer's commitment was only altered by smilies, suggesting that they elicit a stronger impact than emoticons.
95 citations