Exploring Gender Differences in Emoji Usage: Implications for Human-Computer Interaction

Zi-Xiang Lin


Abstract
This study discusses the emojis employment that compensate for the absence of supralinguistic emotive cues in digital communication. Analyzing gender relations (Male-to-Male, Male-to-Female, Female-to-Male, Female-to-Female) as a social influence factor in emoji use, the research explores the use of anger-related emojis and their dual functions as emotion signals and intensifiers. Findings reveal women use more intense emojis toward men and less severe ones toward women, a pattern not observed in men when emphasizing emotions. Hence, the study contributes to the conceptual application of emotional expression via emojis within digital media, raising sentiments on gender variances and improving emotional intelligence in artificial intelligence systems to yield a more accurate human feeling interpretation.
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2025.hcinlp-1.23
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Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Bridging Human-Computer Interaction and Natural Language Processing (HCI+NLP)
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November
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2025
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Suzhou, China
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Su Lin Blodgett, Amanda Cercas Curry, Sunipa Dev, Siyan Li, Michael Madaio, Jack Wang, Sherry Tongshuang Wu, Ziang Xiao, Diyi Yang
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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274–282
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Zi-Xiang Lin. 2025. Exploring Gender Differences in Emoji Usage: Implications for Human-Computer Interaction. In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Bridging Human-Computer Interaction and Natural Language Processing (HCI+NLP), pages 274–282, Suzhou, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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