UMN Emoji Study

We are studying how people understand and interact with emoji. If you have received a tweet from us, we invite you to take part in a short survey (~5 minutes required) to help us further our research by providing some feedback about one of your recent emoji interactions on Twitter, as well as about your understanding of emoji in general. The goal of our survey is to learn whether the way emoji function affects people so that we may better understand the role they play in communication.

If you have any questions or would like to contact us, please email us at emojistudy@umn.edu

Who is behind the study?

We are a team of researchers in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Minnesota. More specifically, we belong to a long-established research lab known as GroupLens that specializes in an area of research known as Human-Computer Interaction. As such, we are broadly interested in the interactions people have with emoji, given that they are enabled by technology.