The emoji you get may be a little different from what you think.

Now you may know that the emoji sent from Crazy Love may be different from the emoji received on Nexus. Because emoticons have different designs on different platforms, sometimes the information you send may lose its original meaning during conversion. But how different will your kind expression be when it is displayed? The truth may surprise you.

The GroupLens research team of the University of Minnesota studied the subtle differences in image design of some of the most popular emoji expressions, and the subtle changes in expression interpretation caused by these differences. The most easily misunderstood emoji expression is "squint smile", which varies greatly from rosy baby face to constipation face with clenched teeth according to different platforms.

Just observing the differences in the expression of emoji in image design itself has great enlightenment. It gets even more interesting after that. GroupLens researchers asked the subjects to rate 22 personified emoji expressions on five different platforms according to their feelings. The scoring system used ranges from very negative feelings (-5) to very positive feelings (5). Then you can see from here that there is something wrong with the expression "squinting and smiling". When Microsoft, Samsung, LG and Google are all at the level of 3 or even higher, Apple's average face is almost-1.

This large-span perception level is named "misunderstanding" by researchers. You can see how these 22 emoji expressions are tracked when crossing the platform. The expression of squinting and grinning, the expression of crying for joy, the expression of sleeping face and the expression of crying have their own minor problems in the interpretation of expressions, but the expression of squinting and smiling is still the undisputed winner in the misunderstanding.

When studying these emoji expressions, researchers also use this sensory scale to track the meaning of expected expressions and perceived meanings. The results show that if you send an expression between different platforms, there will be a perception gap of about 2.04 points automatically. But even on the same platform, the average perception gap is 1.88. That will still cause some misunderstanding.

With the expression of emoji, about half of the emoji on Instagram are decorated with our written language more and more. Hannah Miller, the co-author of the article, wrote in an article introducing this discovery:

We are very excited to continue this research work in many directions: considering the echo of emoji expressions in the whole information, investigating the communication obstacles of people with different ethnic and cultural backgrounds, asking everyone the same question about non-anthropomorphic emoji expressions, establishing a system to help test the possibility of communication misunderstanding caused by new emoji expressions in interpretation, and so on. More generally, many scholars believe that emoticons represent a fundamental change in language use. In a word, fully understanding the meaning of emoticons in interpersonal communication will be an important step in developing the next generation of language technology.

This indirectly makes Unicode, an international consortium that controls emoji expressions, bear a little responsibility, and it may give a clearer and more accurate definition of new emoji characters (which occur faster and faster). Various platforms have also been redesigning emoji expressions-Apple has specially updated some in iOS8.3-so there is definitely a chance to "fix" emoji expressions that have caused great misunderstanding and are potential relationship terminators.

At the same time, perhaps avoiding the expression of "squinting and smiling" can reduce people's eyes.

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