According to Technology Review in “The New Face of Emoticons,” computer scientists from U.S. and Taiwan have found a new way to personalize your messages. You just need a picture of you — preferably with a neutral expression — and their software will show your mood to your correspondent and tell them if you’re happy, sad, or angry. The real innovation is that you will not have to transmit the whole image each time. Instead, your original picture will already have been stored on the recipient’s device, and the desired expression will be automatically reconstructed when opening your message. Clever idea, which mixes emoticons and avatars, but will it work?

Links: Primidi, ZDNet