Title
Expression of emotion in IM
Abstract
Emotion expression in text-based instant messaging (IM) has received little empirical scrutiny. The emotional message cues people use to express their different emotions in IM communication and how their personality traits affect those cues are the main focus of this study. Results of a preliminary study in IM suggest that in stressful situations people apply significantly fewer vocal spelling emotional cues than in non-stressful situations. There is also a significant relationship between conscientiousness as a personality trait and use of lexical surrogate emotional cues in this type of communication. Our proposed study expands upon preliminary data to uncover more significant differences among the emotional message cues people use to express different emotions in IM, including the role of relevant personality traits. Identifying how users express emotions in IM assists researchers and designers in focusing on the users' emotional needs and results in the improvement of emotional communication strategies in IM.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1145/2141512.2141577
CSCW Companion
Keywords
Field
DocType
lexical surrogate emotional cue,proposed study,preliminary study,different emotion,emotional message cues people,emotional communication strategy,im communication,emotional need,emotional cue,personality trait,emotional expression,personality traits,computer mediated communication
Social psychology,Big Five personality traits,Instant messaging,Trait,Psychology,Conscientiousness,Emotional expression,Spelling,Emotional communication,Personality
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.40
3
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Afarin Pirzadeh1142.68
Mark S. Pfaff2397.52