Author: Umakant Mishra
Abstract:
The conventional GUI is more mechanical and does not
recognize or communicate emotions. The modern GUIs are trying to infer the
likely emotional state and personality of the user and communicate through a
corresponding emotional state.
Emotions are expressed in graphical icons, sounds, pictures
and other means. The emotions are found to be useful in especially in
communication software, interactive learning systems, robotics and other
adaptive environments. Various mechanisms have been developed to express
emotions through graphical user interfaces. This article illustrates some
interesting inventions selected from US patent database.
Keywords: TRIZ, Software Inventions, Graphical User
Interface, Software inventions, Software Patents, Inventive Problem Solving,
GUI, Expressing emotions, emoticons, emotional icons, communication, displaying
emotions, graphical emotions
Umakant Mishra, Inventions on Expressing Emotions in
Graphical User Interface, (December 6, 2006), Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=949250
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