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 ...

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 ...

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' ...

The human brain has adapted to react to emoticons in the same way we would to expressions on real human faces, new research suggests. Having first appeared in the 1980s, the pattern of brain activity ...

A few keystrokes became a universal symbol for the digital age. In today’s hyper-connected world, no online conversation or chat would be complete without the ever-present emoji as an efficient ...

The human brain has adapted to react to emoticons in the same way we would to expressions on real human faces, new research suggests. Having first appeared in the 1980s, the pattern of brain activity ...