How cool would it be if your kid's teacher could gauge his/her happiness through some 'device'? A new questionnaire based on emoticon-style facial expressions could help teachers and others who work ...

EVER NOTICED those funny faces made up of punctuation marks and symbols used in e-mail and chat room messages? Those creative keystrokes are called 'emoticons' - a combination of the words 'emotion' ...

With three simple keystrokes, Scott Fahlman brought a smile to the internet. In a 1982 message board post, Fahlman, a computer scientist at Carnegie-Mellon University, proposed using typographical ...

In today’s hyper-connected world, no online conversation or chat would be complete without the ever-present emoji as an efficient shorthand for expressing one’s feelings or vibe. But before there were ...