Emojinal Intelligence

In our Project «Emojinal Intelligence» we discuss what importance emojis hold in our every-day communication. In our digitalized world we use more and more text messages instead of face to face communication. The expressions we do while talking are hard to show in written text, therefore we use pictures that resemble our emotions (which possibly explains the high usage of Emojis and stickers). The goal is to visualize which emojis we use and also what importance the emojis hold in our every-day communication. To collect our data we take a screenshot from our mobile phone for every text message we send that includes an Emoji.. Additionally we blur all the text strings - expect the Emojis - and display our screenshots individually in a square grid.

While documenting our usage of Emojis, we learned that the emotions shown in Emojis are way over the top. For example sending a crying Emoji doesn't necessarily mean that you are actually crying while writing a certain text message.