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by age-specific and gender-specific differences of interpretations in mobile phone
pictograms.
We analyzed 72 pictograms using questionnaire data compiled from the responses
of Japanese mobile phone users in five age groups ranging from teenagers to those 50
or older. We found that thirteen pictograms depicting faces/facial expressions,
gestures, and emotions have tendencies of age-specific or gender-specific differences
of interpretation.
We plan to continue gathering data periodically to expand the pictogram dictionary
with additional everyday interpretations and usage examples for mobile phone
pictograms. Improving the features of our age-specific pictogram dictionary
application and multilingual translation service will expedite and facilitate
communication by means of mobile phone pictograms, between users of different age
groups and cultures.
Acknowledgements.
This research was conducted as a research activity in Special Interest
Group on Graphical Communication in the Language Grid Association. We thank to the
Language Grid Project at National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
(NICT) for this research to come true by providing frameworks and web services for machine
translations.
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