Expressive Messaging
What if sending a message felt like something?
Emojis translate emotion into symbols. This study translates it into behavior.
Shake your phone to send anger: the bubble distorts on impact. Hold the screen together with someone for romance: your fingerprints merge into a shared mark.
Photograph something real for joy: it becomes a collectible sticker you gift. Tilt a bubble to signal sarcasm.
No new interface. Just the physics of how you hold your phone, put to work.
Two users hold their screens at the same time. Their fingerprints merge into a shared trace.
Shaking the device transforms the message bubble, turning physical tension into visible intensity.
A real-world object, captured and gifted. The effort is the emotion.
A subtle shift in the bubble's behavior signals ironic intent before it gets lost in translation.
Luke Caporelli, Jannes Daur, Leon Burg