Abstract
In the last two decades, Emoji have become a mainstay of digital communication, allowing ordinary people to convey ideas, concepts, and emotions with just a few Unicode characters. While emoji are most often used to supplement text in digital communication, they comprise a powerful and expressive vocabulary in their own right. In this paper, we study the affordances of �emoji-first� communication, in which sequences of emoji are used to describe concepts without textual accompaniment. To investigate the properties of emoji-first communication, we built and released Opico, a social media mobile app that allows users to create reactions - sequences of between one and five emoji - and share them with a network of friends. We then leveraged Opico to collect a repository of more than 3700 emoji reactions from more than 1000 registered users, each tied to one of 2441 physical places. We describe the design and architecture of the Opico app, present a qualitative and quantitative analysis of Opico's reaction dataset, and discuss the implications of Emoji-first communication for future social platforms.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | The Web Conference 2019 - Companion of the World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2019 |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery, Inc |
| Pages | 450-458 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781450366755 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - May 13 2019 |
| Event | 2019 World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2019 - San Francisco, United States Duration: May 13 2019 → May 17 2019 |
Publication series
| Name | The Web Conference 2019 - Companion of the World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2019 |
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Conference
| Conference | 2019 World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2019 |
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| Country | United States |
| City | San Francisco |
| Period | 5/13/19 → 5/17/19 |
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Keywords
- Emoji
- Mobile app
- Social media
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Computer Networks and Communications
- Software
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OPICO : A study of emoji-first communication in a mobile social app. / Khandekar, Sujay; Ryu, Chae Won; Higgs, Joseph; Talton, Jerry O.; Bian, Yuanzhe; Kumar, Ranjitha.
The Web Conference 2019 - Companion of the World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2019. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2019. p. 450-458 (The Web Conference 2019 - Companion of the World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2019).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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