The Importance of Understanding Emoji: an Investigative Study

With the explosion of social media usage, emoji have become a trending topic in digital communication technological researches. People have started using emoji as a new language in social media to colour and humanise their text messages. Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) experts must dedicate their effort to understanding emoji and their related issues, specifically from a design perspective. Therefore, to understand how emoji work and how they affect people’s daily lives, a review has been conducted to discover important facts, including a clear understanding of how and why designers and HCI experts need to evaluate emoji, as well as their implications and limitations...

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