Designing multi-touch gestures to support emotional expression in IM
Afarin Pirzadeh, Hsaio-Wen Wu, Reecha Bharali, Bo Mi Kim, Terri Wada, Mark S. Pfaff · 2014
The dramatically increasing use of IM and the lack of visual and aural nonverbal behaviors in this channel of communication have presented a variety of challenges and opportunities for researchers in the area of HCI and design. In this preliminary study, we, through design research, identified a group of text-based emotional cues users apply to express their emotions in IM and accordingly developed a set of multi-touch gestures to support emotional expression in IM communication.