Authors : Mohd Zhafri Bin Mohd Zukhi and Azham Hussain
Abstract: The usage of emoticons has become an important part in interaction and communication in Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC). These emoticons are used to express the user’s feelings, actions and conditions without having face-to-face meeting. This study analyzed the existing research on the emoticons usage patterns. By doing, so, the areas of research that has been studied the most can be known, followed by the less studied areas. The objectives of this study are to investigate what are the area of studies regarding the usage of emoticons in CMC based from the existing research and whether there are studies about the emoticons that represent the cultures of a certain region or nation by using the Systematic-Literature Review (SLR). This study was started based from the 709 papers gathered from the online library such as IEEE, ACM, Science Direct and Web of Science by using a search strategy that has been constructed in research method. After filtering process was done by using the inclusion and exclusion criteria, only 30 relevant papers are chosen as the body of knowledge of this study.
Mohd Zhafri Bin Mohd Zukhi and Azham Hussain, 2019. A Systematic Review on Emoticon Usage Pattern for Collective Interaction in CMC. Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 14: 9239-9244.