emotional design

VibEmoji

[By Pengcheng An*, Ziqi Zhou*, Qing Liu*, Yifei Yin, Linghao Du, Da-Yuan Huang, and Jian Zhao✉] Emoticons are indispensable in online communications. With users’ growing needs for more customized and expressive emoticons, recent messaging applications begin to support (limited) multi-modal emoticons, enhancing emoticons with animations or vibrotactile feedback. However, little empirical knowledge has been accumulated concerning how people create, share and experience multi-modal emoticons in everyday communication, and how to better support them through design.

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