24/11 Emoji and Emoticons - the first truly universal language?
| Category: Miscellaneous By editor at 15:11 |
As AZUMA Junichi, I think emoji's / emoticons could be the first truly universal language. The heavy use of emoji's in our daily written conversations by phone or computer are truly amazing. And this will only increase with "mobile connectedness".
So how about standardization of emoticons and emoji's? Here are some resources to start with. If you want to add more resources, please do so in the comments.
Emoji standardization (DoCoMo, EzWeb, Softbank)
Emoji - Emoticon compatibility chart (Japan / Europe)
Skype vs. Regular Emoticons (see also: Skype Hidden Emoticons Video and Secret Skype Emoticons (de))
Jaiku Icons
Kaoani - animated emoji's
Gamer Culture Emoticons: here and there
Anime Emoticons
Ascii Emoji Photoset
Emoji (絵文字)
Emoji are japanese picture (絵) characters (文字) and not as Tim Bray meant emotion characters. More information and links can be found at Wikipedia.
Emoticons
Emoticon article on Wikipedia is quite thorough.
Related:
Design of Signage Systems. via NotasD
Not related, but interesting nonetheless:
When I was in Tokyo in 2003 I wondered why the top level domain .ch was so interesting for my hosts - they created a japanese website with a .ch domain at that moment. I guess I found the answer now: 2ch or 2channel (Wikipedia entry).
And last but not least: QR Code for mobile bookmarking of this post
http://d.kaywa.com/ +2020400102 (Short Code for this blog) + 845 (blog post ID)
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http://qrcode.kaywa.com/img.php?s=4&d=http%3A%2F%2Fd.kaywa.com%2F2020400102845
So how about standardization of emoticons and emoji's? Here are some resources to start with. If you want to add more resources, please do so in the comments.
Emoji standardization (DoCoMo, EzWeb, Softbank)
Emoji - Emoticon compatibility chart (Japan / Europe)
Skype vs. Regular Emoticons (see also: Skype Hidden Emoticons Video and Secret Skype Emoticons (de))
Jaiku Icons
Kaoani - animated emoji's
Gamer Culture Emoticons: here and there
Anime Emoticons
Ascii Emoji Photoset
Emoji (絵文字)
Emoji are japanese picture (絵) characters (文字) and not as Tim Bray meant emotion characters. More information and links can be found at Wikipedia.
Emoticons
Emoticon article on Wikipedia is quite thorough.
Related:
Design of Signage Systems. via NotasD
Not related, but interesting nonetheless:
When I was in Tokyo in 2003 I wondered why the top level domain .ch was so interesting for my hosts - they created a japanese website with a .ch domain at that moment. I guess I found the answer now: 2ch or 2channel (Wikipedia entry).
And last but not least: QR Code for mobile bookmarking of this post
http://d.kaywa.com/ +2020400102 (Short Code for this blog) + 845 (blog post ID)
=
http://qrcode.kaywa.com/img.php?s=4&d=http%3A%2F%2Fd.kaywa.com%2F2020400102845
Comments
Naruto
2007-11-24 16:56:47
Some scholarly references:
http://journal.fibreculture.org/issue8/issue8_hjorth.html
http://academypublisher.com/jmm/vol01/no02/jmm01023037.pdf
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a778059105~db=all~jumptype=rss
2007-11-24 16:56:47
Some scholarly references:
http://journal.fibreculture.org/issue8/issue8_hjorth.html
http://academypublisher.com/jmm/vol01/no02/jmm01023037.pdf
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a778059105~db=all~jumptype=rss
Roger
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http://id.kaywa.com/roger
2007-11-25 15:22:10
Naruto,
Thank you for the references. Sounds interesting indeed.
2007-11-25 15:22:10
Naruto,
Thank you for the references. Sounds interesting indeed.
Junichi Azuma
2007-11-26 00:08:33
I am a bit surbrised to see my talk at Microlearning was quoted here. It is true that in Japanese blogs, SNSs and mobible phone communication (SMS, emails) more and more graphic emoticons are used. In addition, we can witness emoticons that are used for a "word" (with a certain shape and the meaning, like Chinese characters) rather than just showing emotions or paralinguistic features. We are not sure if these emoticons will evolve into the future universal visual language, but the important thing is our network infrastructure can accommodate these graphic emoticon-like things.
2007-11-26 00:08:33
I am a bit surbrised to see my talk at Microlearning was quoted here. It is true that in Japanese blogs, SNSs and mobible phone communication (SMS, emails) more and more graphic emoticons are used. In addition, we can witness emoticons that are used for a "word" (with a certain shape and the meaning, like Chinese characters) rather than just showing emotions or paralinguistic features. We are not sure if these emoticons will evolve into the future universal visual language, but the important thing is our network infrastructure can accommodate these graphic emoticon-like things.
Roger
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http://id.kaywa.com/roger
2007-11-26 09:42:39
Azuma-san,
Thank you for passing by and being precise about your point of view.
Do you have your text for Microlearning in PDF form? And would you make it accessible to the web community? I read it and was impressed and I think others would be too.
2007-11-26 09:42:39
Azuma-san,
Thank you for passing by and being precise about your point of view.
Do you have your text for Microlearning in PDF form? And would you make it accessible to the web community? I read it and was impressed and I think others would be too.
Junichi Azuma
2007-11-26 14:57:16
I have rewritten the Microlearning paper and just submitted the manuscript for a certain online journal. If it should be accepted and go online, I will post the URL here (the anonymous access will be possible).
2007-11-26 14:57:16
I have rewritten the Microlearning paper and just submitted the manuscript for a certain online journal. If it should be accepted and go online, I will post the URL here (the anonymous access will be possible).
Roger
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roger.fischer [at] kaywa.com
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http://id.kaywa.com/roger
2007-11-26 17:37:04
Azuma-san
Great. Thank you.
2007-11-26 17:37:04
Azuma-san
Great. Thank you.
Junichi Azuma
2007-12-17 06:16:07
Recently, I found the Microlearning site is offering the pdf file of the proceedings of the 2007 conference. The URL is:
http://ele.researchstudio.at/download/Microlearning2007_web.pdf
It is quite a large file (about 8MB).
2007-12-17 06:16:07
Recently, I found the Microlearning site is offering the pdf file of the proceedings of the 2007 conference. The URL is:
http://ele.researchstudio.at/download/Microlearning2007_web.pdf
It is quite a large file (about 8MB).
