Mohd Zukhi, Mohd Zhafri and Hussain, Azham (2016) A survey to identify the demand on cultural emoticon. In: International Conference on Applied Science and Technology 2016 (ICAST’16), 11–13 April 2016, Kedah, Malaysia.

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Abstract

Emoticons are able to improve the efficiency of the communication and solved the lacking in text messaging, by adding the physical appearance of the user in the form of icons.The usage of emoticons help user in strengthening the content of the text message and attention saving. If the concept of emoticons can be used in cultural perspective, it could bring more benefit to society.Currently, the study regarding cultural-based emoticon is lacking.The objective of this study is to explore the demand of cultural-based emoticons in CMC.This study performed literature study of past research and conducted questionnaire session to the public respondents.Results suggest that there is a need of cultural-based emoticons to be implemented in CMC.This study revealed that the usage of emoticon is important in improving the communication of society and benefiting the society particularly in cultural aspect.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Divisions:	School of Computing
Depositing User:	Dr. Azham Hussain
Date Deposited:	16 Jan 2017 03:25
Last Modified:	16 Jan 2017 03:25
URI:	https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/20590

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