Scott Fahlman, programmer and retired professor at Carnegie Mellon University, was the first documented person to use the emoticons :-) and :-(when proposing the sequence of characters to mark ...

you can insert it in less than a second with the proper key presses. Shortcut Character Unicode Description Emoticons, Bullets, and Symbols Alt + 1 Smiley Face Alt + 2 ...

They also investigated whether delivering visual and tactile emoticons using a soft robotic device may increase prosocial intent perception and physiological markers. Experiment 1 emulated a ...