Future Directions

In my future work, I plan to further improve my survey in order to achieve more

accurate and pervasive results and overcome the aforementioned limitations. Many

improvements can be made to this end.

First, given that mobile devices such as smartphone are the major device most

people use emoji in text-based communication, I can ask the participants to complete the

survey using their smartphone instead of a desktop or laptop computer. I can also ask

them to actually text emoji via their phone in the survey to simulate the actual user

experience.

More universal emoji can be used, such as emoji that including cartoon charters

that are familiar to most people regardless their cultural background. For example, emoji

of famous Disney cartoon characters. I can also extend the survey to more general

audience that is not limited to Iowa State University.

Another important research direction would be to design new survey questions to

answer more intriguing research questions. The four research questions proposed in this

thesis attempts to answer some most fundamental questions concerning the usage of

emoji. However, there are many details worth exploring. For example, the conversations

presented in the current survey are not enough to reflect the usage of emoji of participants

under different scenarios. We could also ask the participants to explain his or her feelings

(why is this comfortable? why is this annoying? Etc.) about specific conversations,

especially using more realistic way is to simulate everyday scenarios and asks the

APPENDIX B. DEMOGRAPHICS FORM 1. Gender ___ 2. Age ___ 3. Native language ___ 4. Other languages ❑ Yes ❑ No 5. Use smartphones ❑ Yes ❑ No

6. What smartphone Operating system do you use?

❑ Android ❑ iOS

❑ Windows Phone ❑ Blackberry ❑ Firefox OS ❑ Sailfish OS

❑ Tizen ❑ Ubuntu Touch OS ❑ Don’t Know

7. Do you use social media? Check that may apply?

❑ Facebook ❑ YouTube

❑ Google+ ❑ Facebook Messenger ❑ WhatsApp ❑ Twitter ❑ Skype ❑ Instagram ❑ WeChat ❑ LINE ❑ foursquare ❑ Shazam ❑ Flickr ❑ KakaoTalk ❑ Snapchat ❑ Vine

❑ kik Messenger ❑ Others (Please specify ____________)

8. Do you often use emoji/ emoticon when you texting?

❑ No at all

❑ Rarely

❑ Sometimes

❑ Often ❑ Always

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