{"title":"Typeface Emotion Analysis for Communication on Mobile Messengers","authors":"Saemi Choi, T. Yamasaki, K. Aizawa","doi":"10.1145/2983298.2983305","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Nonverbal signals such as facial expressions and gestures cannot be conveyed by text messages on a mobile messenger. In this study, we investigate the potential use of typefaces for emotional representation by which people can feel nonverbal signals. We constructed a dataset of various typefaces and conducted a large-scale crowd-sourced user study to investigate the relationship between typefaces and emotional signals based on commonly used psychological emotion models. From the user study, we determined that several visual characteristics of typefaces have weak/strong emotional influences on viewers and verified that certain emotions and feelings can be conveyed on text messages.","PeriodicalId":293626,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Multimedia Alternate Realities","volume":"122 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2016-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"11","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Multimedia Alternate Realities","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2983298.2983305","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 11
Abstract
Nonverbal signals such as facial expressions and gestures cannot be conveyed by text messages on a mobile messenger. In this study, we investigate the potential use of typefaces for emotional representation by which people can feel nonverbal signals. We constructed a dataset of various typefaces and conducted a large-scale crowd-sourced user study to investigate the relationship between typefaces and emotional signals based on commonly used psychological emotion models. From the user study, we determined that several visual characteristics of typefaces have weak/strong emotional influences on viewers and verified that certain emotions and feelings can be conveyed on text messages.