Avatars for SMS

This paper presents a few ideas concerning use of avatars on mobile devices. A serious question is whether the information depicted by the avatar is important enough to justify taking up significant screen space from the message itself. Emoticons have probably been so successful in part because they are compact.

Expressive Messaging on Mobile Platforms, 2001, 2 pg.
Jussi Karlgren, Panu Korhonen, Janet Galore, Mark Tierney, Chad Redmon,
Juha Hemánus, Peter Lönnqvist, Jarmo Laaksolahti1
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