As texting continues to play a large role in our daily communication, we have found ways to emulate face-to-face or voice conversations through typing a message. Emoticons, more commonly known as ...

Pro tip: Keep the smiley faces out of your work emails, or else the person receiving the message may think you’re incompetent. That’s according to a study published in “Social Psychological and ...

Large language models (LLMs), artificial intelligence (AI) systems that can process and generate texts in various languages, ...

Today emoticons are so pervasive that behavioral science has taken an active interest in how people use them. Among the evidence (recently surveyed by Roni Jacobson at the great new Science of Us blog ...

Zlango Messaging is an application aimed squarely at teenagers, as it adds a plethora of custom icons to help make text messages “less dull.” Unlike WhatsApp Messenger, Zlango uses regular text ...

Scientific study into emoticons sounds barmy but they are so embedded in text and computer speak that I guess it was inevitable. The study may have focused on the reaction of its subjects to various ...

Last week, a number of users started noticing that Facebook Comments now supports chat emoticons. It doesn’t work on status update, although users and page owners can use and see it on the comment ...

What would you do with the openFrameworks and an hour to kill? Would you create an application to detect when you’re smiling and automatically insert “:)” into whatever program is currently running?

With communication moving at the speed of light, it makes sense that you'd want to take the quickest path possible to inform your employees of your emotions. Doing this via text message requires just ...