Luke Caporelli
Lab — Interaction Study

Expressive Messaging

What if sending a message felt like something?

FigmaProtopie

Emojis translate emotion into symbols. This translates emotion 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.

Motion studies
Romance

Two users hold their screens simultaneously — their fingerprints merge into a shared trace.

Anger

Shaking the device transforms the message bubble, turning physical tension into visible intensity.

Joy

A real-world object, captured and gifted — the effort is the emotion.

Sarcasm

A subtle shift in the bubble's behavior signals ironic intent before it gets lost in translation.

Team

Luke Caporelli, Jannes Daur, Leon Burg

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