@inproceedings{409fcc54d148427fb81798a3500184ca,
title = "Affective Affordance of Message Balloon Animations: An Early Exploration of AniBalloons",
abstract = "We introduce the preliminary exploration of AniBalloons, a novel form of chat balloon animations aimed at enriching nonverbal affective expression in text-based communications. AniBalloons were designed using extracted motion patterns from affective animations and mapped to six commonly communicated emotions. An evaluation study with 40 participants assessed their effectiveness in conveying intended emotions and their perceived emotional properties. The results showed that 80% of the animations effectively conveyed the intended emotions. AniBalloons covered a broad range of emotional parameters, comparable to frequently used emojis, offering potential for a wide array of affective expression in daily communication. The findings suggest AniBalloons' promise for enhancing emotional expressiveness in text-based communication and provide early insights for future affective design. {\textcopyright} 2023 Copyright held by the owner/author(s). Publication rights licensed to ACM.",
keywords = "Affective Communication, Chat Balloons, Motion Graphic Design, Social Interaction, Text Message",
author = "Pengcheng An and Chaoyu Zhang and Haichen Gao and Ziqi Zhou and Linghao Du and Che Yan and Yage Xiao and Jian Zhao",
year = "2023",
doi = "10.1145/3584931.3607017",
language = "English",
isbn = "9798400701290",
series = "Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
pages = "138--143",
booktitle = "CSCW {\textquoteright}23 Companion -",
address = "United States",
note = "26th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2023) ; Conference date: 14-10-2023 Through 18-10-2023",
}