Pirzadeh, AfarinDonnelly, KaelynElbin, JulieLin, Ann Marie MayYu, Xing2016-04-202016-04-202015-04-17Afarin Pirzadeh, Kaelyn Donnelly, Julie Elbin, Ann Marie May Lin, and Xing Yu. 2015 April 17. Gestchat (A Tool to Support Emotional Communication in Text Messaging). Poster session presented at IUPUI Research Day 2015, Indianapolis, Indiana.https://hdl.handle.net/1805/9364poster abstractWe introduce a new mobile instant messaging application, which specifically support users’ emotional communication. The invention relates to a novel method in instant messaging to input interactive emoticons through multi-touch gestures. We add additional mode of gesture to instant messaging keyboard and also send text in different colors to present the emotion.en-USEmotional CommunicationText Messagingmobile instant messaging applicationinteractive emoticonsmulti-touch gesturesPoster