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      Expressing Emotions as Emoticons for Online Intelligent Agents

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      Conference name: Proceedings of the 30th International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI)

      Conference theme: Fusion

      Conference date: 11 - 15 July 2016

      Keywords: emotions, emoticons, affective computing, user-centered design, virtual agents, online communication

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          Without emotional annotation, online communication can be ambiguous and lead to misunderstandings. This paper addresses the questions of which emotions are commonly expressed online, how these emotions can be encapsulated in emoticons, and how people respond to different emotions. In 10 focus groups with university students we found that some emotions are not frequently expressed online (e.g. aggravation, alienantion and torment), while many others were commonly used (e.g. enthusiasm, anger, amusement, amazement and disgust). Emoticons were drawn or described for nine commonly expressed emotions, and the response discussed. Audience was a key component in how people used emoticons, both for use and interpretation. Participants preferred to ‘defuse’ negative emotions such as anger and rage with light-hearted comments, supporting previous findings on a positivity bias on many social networks. These findings have implications for online communication and the design of intelligent virtual agents.

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                Contributors
                Kirsten A. Smith
                Judith Masthoff
                Nava Tintarev
                Conference
                Publication date: July 2016
                Publication date (Print): July 2016
                Pages: 1-9
                Affiliations
                Computing Science

                University of Aberdeen

                UK
                Article
                DOI: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2016.44
                Copyright statement: © A. Smith et al. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. Proceedings of British HCI 2016 Conference Fusion, Bournemouth, UK
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                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

                Conference name: Proceedings of the 30th International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference
                Conference acronym: HCI
                Conference number: 30
                Conference location: Bournemouth University, Poole, UK
                Conference date: 11 - 15 July 2016
                Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)
                Conference theme: Fusion
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                Product Information: 1477-9358BCS Learning & Development
                Self URI (journal page): https://ewic.bcs.org/
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                Series title: Electronic Workshops in Computing

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                ScienceOpen disciplines: Applied computer science, Computer science, Security & Cryptology, Graphics & Multimedia design, General computer science, Human-computer-interaction

                Keywords: online communication, virtual agents, user-centered design, affective computing, emoticons, emotions

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