Emotional Expressions are an integral component of the reliability when animating virtual characters. But the sheer amount of possible emotions and the complexity in their selection makes it difficult to develop an intuitive way of controlling arbitrary facial expressions interactively in real-time. This work aims at finding a decent representation of emotions and their expressions, as well as ...

The new forms of social communication, with the increasing presence images within text, make us necessary to reconsider cerebral basis literacy and theyr reconfiguration via neural recycling. In theoretical framework Embodied philosophy mind, we propose an analysis ‘extended writing”, actually using emoticon emoji, in light our contemporary neuropsychological knowledge (hemispheric specializati...

this study aimed to gain an insight into whether computer-mediated communication (cmc) in the form of a digital forum can reflect gendered discursive practices. a great deal of research has now established that computer-mediated interactions embody gendered differences in the use of emoticons, but few studies have examined the potential effect of the gender of the emoticon-receiver on the frequ...

Facebook use among young adults is widespread, and understanding how it affects romantic relationships has practical, real world implications. Both gender and amount of time spent on Facebook have been associated with online jealousy. Emoticons can be used online to clarify messages and are often used in mixed gender interactions. A series of studies was used to examine whether gender and emoti...

Most of the recent research on online text communication has been conducted in social contexts with diverse groups of users. Here we examine a stable group of adult scientists as they chat about their work. Some scientists communicated in their first language (L1) and others communicated either in their L1 or in a second (L2) language. We analyze the production in English of emoticons and of li...

iv ACKNOWLEDGMENTS First, I gratefully acknowledge my advisor, Zhongwei Shen, for granting me the opportunity to pursue my master's degree under his guidance. Since I'm certainly not his typical student type: hard working, always meeting deadlines and attention to details. There's no way for me to imagine how he survived for so many years to deal with me, from undergraduate to graduate school. ...