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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With three simple keystrokes, Scott Fahlman brought a smile to the internet. In a 1982 message board post, Fahlman, a computer scientist at Carnegie-Mellon University, proposed using typographical ...

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 ...

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 ...

Emoticons have been around a lot longer than one might think. In a March 30, 1881 item in Puck which included typographical representations of joy, melancholy, indifference, and astonishment, it was ...

VALENCIA, Spain--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Voicemod, the world leader in augmented voice and interactive audio, has signed its second IP deal in collaboration with lifestyle brand The Smiley Company ...

It has been scientifically proven that the more you smile the more people like you, but it turns out this this pattern might not necessarily translate all that well in the language of emoji.

From a simple thumbs up to a laughing cowboy, there is an emoji for almost any conceivable moment. But it is the humble smiley face which is the most iconic of them all. However, if you've been ...