Communication Icons: Emoticons

Since 1982, pictograms and emoticons have changed from cute glyphs to communication icons that convey human emotions. Regardless of whether you are good at using text emoji or emoticons, or whether you are good at using computer generated emotional icons, these characters are communication tools that the technology community loves. In fact, each country has its own descriptive emotional icon. Whether it is a Mexican or a Japanese, there are hundreds of fun characters to express emotions and enhance electronic writing.

This is a wonderful list of frequently used pictograms or expressions and expressions of the author in the form of icons. Initially, these icons consisted of ASCII art and later Shift JIS art and Unicode art. Recently, static and animated graphic icons incorporate traditional text-based emoticons, which are often referred to as emoji. Emoticons can usually be divided into three groups: the West (mainly from the US and Europe) or the horizontal (not all in this direction); east or vertical (mainly from East Asia); and 2 channel style committee members Meeting). The most common explanation of these different styles is that in the east there is a tendency for the whole face to use, while the eyes play a major role in facial expression.

Graphic expressions that use only text characters (called ASCII art) have existed for many years. However, the use of portmanteau emoji (emotion + icon) was promoted by Scott Fahlman, a researcher at Carnegie Mellon University who posted a message on the bulletin board on September 19, 1982. We recommend that you use :-) to indicate that Fahlman people are joking in their messages. To express my seriousness, the meaning of these emoticons has changed a bit, it is widely understood and the whole vocabulary of expression exists in the presence of users to communicate with them.

With a priori knowledge of pictograms, you can easily understand ASCII art and text based emoticons. For example, for those unfamiliar with online messaging, it is easier to understand such as 8-. Or: - / / something like a blurred icon. The appearance of more obvious emoji precludes the need to have emoji vocabulary to understand them. Still, there are people who encourage not to send emoji to certain people in order to communicate more clearly. Franklin Crohn at the State University of New York at Fredonia suggests not to send emoji to baby boomers and older generations in the work environment (Krohn, 2004). Understanding of pictograms may be expected to become more common in the coming years.