Human handshapes have been encoded as emoji since the earliest implementations. The flexible and accessible semantic domain of human gestures has continued to provide a source of new emoji. We provide an overview of the history of hand gestures in the Unicode emoji set. We then discuss the utility and challenges of encoding hand emoji, as well as the current direction being taken by Unicode.
Publication Date
2021-06-01Editors
Wijeratne S
Lee J8
Saggion H
Sheth AName of conference
4th International Workshop on Emoji Understanding and Applications in Social MediaLocation
OnlineStarting Date
2021-06-07Finshing Date
2021-06-07Rights Statement
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