Browsing by Subject "interactive emoticons"

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    Gestchat (A Tool to Support Emotional Communication in Text Messaging)
    (Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, 2015-04-17) Pirzadeh, Afarin; Donnelly, Kaelyn; Elbin, Julie; Lin, Ann Marie May; Yu, Xing
    We 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.