SmilieFace: developing and evaluating an affective Facebook Application

Because of their proliferation, Social Network Sites (SNS) are growing in importance as communication centres. Plain text messages between users, even if augmented with appropriate smilie icons or emoticons, often cause misunderstanding. Interaction between users on SNSs, such as Facebook may benefi...

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Main Authors: Hengky, Marriott, Andrew, McMeekin, David
Other Authors: Nitin Agarwal
Format: Conference Paper
Published: Global Science and Technology Forum 2012
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Online Access:http://dl4.globalstf.org/?wpsc-product=smilieface-developing-and-evaluating-an-affective-facebook-application
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/35505
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author Hengky
Marriott, Andrew
McMeekin, David
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Hengky
Marriott, Andrew
McMeekin, David
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description Because of their proliferation, Social Network Sites (SNS) are growing in importance as communication centres. Plain text messages between users, even if augmented with appropriate smilie icons or emoticons, often cause misunderstanding. Interaction between users on SNSs, such as Facebook may benefit by being able to use an emotional or affective based communication system. Smiliemail is an existing, easy to use, and effective web-based application that enhances online communication by enabling users to create and send affective and engaging messages. It uses a computer generated video avatar, which articulates a sender’s message that has been tagged using an XML markup language. Hence the affective avatars of Smiliemail may provide an effective inter-user communication on SNSs. This case-study details some implementation and user interface issues that arose in the development of SmilieFace: a Facebook application that uses affective avatars for inter-user communication.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-355052017-01-30T13:50:03Z SmilieFace: developing and evaluating an affective Facebook Application Hengky Marriott, Andrew McMeekin, David Nitin Agarwal affective video social media facebook smilieface Because of their proliferation, Social Network Sites (SNS) are growing in importance as communication centres. Plain text messages between users, even if augmented with appropriate smilie icons or emoticons, often cause misunderstanding. Interaction between users on SNSs, such as Facebook may benefit by being able to use an emotional or affective based communication system. Smiliemail is an existing, easy to use, and effective web-based application that enhances online communication by enabling users to create and send affective and engaging messages. It uses a computer generated video avatar, which articulates a sender’s message that has been tagged using an XML markup language. Hence the affective avatars of Smiliemail may provide an effective inter-user communication on SNSs. This case-study details some implementation and user interface issues that arose in the development of SmilieFace: a Facebook application that uses affective avatars for inter-user communication. 2012 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/35505 http://dl4.globalstf.org/?wpsc-product=smilieface-developing-and-evaluating-an-affective-facebook-application Global Science and Technology Forum restricted
spellingShingle affective video
social media
facebook
smilieface
Hengky
Marriott, Andrew
McMeekin, David
SmilieFace: developing and evaluating an affective Facebook Application
title SmilieFace: developing and evaluating an affective Facebook Application
title_full SmilieFace: developing and evaluating an affective Facebook Application
title_fullStr SmilieFace: developing and evaluating an affective Facebook Application
title_full_unstemmed SmilieFace: developing and evaluating an affective Facebook Application
title_short SmilieFace: developing and evaluating an affective Facebook Application
title_sort smilieface: developing and evaluating an affective facebook application
topic affective video
social media
facebook
smilieface
url http://dl4.globalstf.org/?wpsc-product=smilieface-developing-and-evaluating-an-affective-facebook-application
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/35505