Face with Tears of Joy Is Word of the Year: Are Emoji a Sign of Things to Come in Health Care?

According to Blagdon (2013), "The lack of visual cures made the service more difficult to use...and could benefit majorly from some extra characters to show contextual information." [...]emoji were born as a mechanism to provide contextual information and emotions.

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Published inNursing education perspectives Vol. 37; no. 1; pp. 56 - 57
Main Author Skiba, Dian J
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc 01.01.2016
Subjects
Communication
Communication (Thought Transfer)
Control Groups
Diabetes
Dictionaries
Educational Technology
Emotions
Forecasts and trends
Health care industry
Health Conditions
Health education
Humans
Lay People
Learner Engagement
Literacy
Nursing
Nursing Care - psychology
Patients
Pictographs
R&D
Research & development
Research and Development
Researchers
Sex crimes
Software
Symbolism
Tears
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Summary:According to Blagdon (2013), "The lack of visual cures made the service more difficult to use...and could benefit majorly from some extra characters to show contextual information." [...]emoji were born as a mechanism to provide contextual information and emotions.
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ISSN:1536-5026
1943-4685
DOI:10.1097/01.NEP.0000476112.24899.a1