Wednesday, 13 February 2013
Facebook is reportedly going to revamp the emoticons on the site. According to reports, the social networking giant has enlisted Pixar story artist Matt Jones and US UC Berkeley psychologist Dacher Keltner to develop new emoticons that should include all emotions we want to express.
According to the report, Dacher Keltner has already begun working with Facebook
on improving the emoticons. On learning about Jones' involvement in the
project, Keltner offered him Charles Darwin's The Expression of the
Emotions in Man and Animals, which shows likenesses between human and
animal facial movements.
Some of the artworks published by
Buzzfeed show really interesting emoticons that cover emotions such as
maternal love, contemplation and affirmation. Jones is apparently
experimenting with 3D emoticons as well. There's no word yet on when the
project will be completed and implemented. Recently, reports suggested Facebook is experimenting with its status bar,
making it more visual with new emoticons. The new visual status
composer will allow users to choose from feelings such as reading,
watching, listening to, drinking or eating. Then users can pick from the
given options.
