Investigating the effect of emoji position on eye movements and subjective evaluations on Chinese sarcasm comprehension.

IF 2 3区工程技术 Q3 ENGINEERING, INDUSTRIAL

Ergonomics Pub Date : 2025-02-01 Epub Date: 2024-03-06 DOI:10.1080/00140139.2024.2325534

Jinghua Huang, Mingyan Wang, Ting Zhang, Dongliang Zhang, Yi Zhou, Lujin Mao, Mengyao Qi

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Abstract

Evidence indicated that emojis could influence sarcasm comprehension and sentence processing in English. However, the effect of emojis on Chinese sarcasm comprehension remains unclear. Therefore, this study investigated the impact of the smiley emoji position and semantics on eye movements and subjective assessments during Chinese online communication. Our results showed that the presence of a smiley emoji improved participants' interpretation and perception of sarcasm. We also found shorter dwell times on sarcastic words compared to literal words under the comment-final emoji condition. Additionally, we clarified the time course of emojified sentence processing during Chinese reading: the presence of emoji initially decreased first fixation durations compared to the absence of emoji and then the comment-final emoji shortened dwell times on sarcastic words compared to literal words in the critical area of interest. Our findings suggested that the comment-final emoji was the preferable choice for avoiding semantic comprehension bias in China.

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研究表情符号位置对眼动和主观评价对中文讽刺语言理解的影响。

有证据表明，表情符号可以影响英语中的讽刺语言理解和句子加工。然而，表情符号对中文讽刺语言理解的影响仍不清楚。因此，本研究调查了笑脸表情符号的位置和语义对中文在线交流中眼球运动和主观评价的影响。我们的结果表明，笑脸表情符号的存在改善了参与者对讽刺的解释和感知。我们还发现，在评论最后出现表情符号的条件下，讽刺性词语的停留时间比字面词语短。此外，我们还澄清了中文阅读过程中表情符号化句子处理的时间过程：与没有表情符号的句子相比，有表情符号的句子最初会减少首次定格的时间，然后在关键兴趣区域，与字面意思相比，注释末尾的表情符号会缩短在讽刺性词语上的停留时间。我们的研究结果表明，在中国，评论结尾的表情符号是避免语义理解偏差的首选。

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Ergonomics 工程技术-工程：工业

CiteScore

4.60

自引率

12.50%

发文量

147

审稿时长

6 months

期刊介绍： Ergonomics, also known as human factors, is the scientific discipline that seeks to understand and improve human interactions with products, equipment, environments and systems. Drawing upon human biology, psychology, engineering and design, Ergonomics aims to develop and apply knowledge and techniques to optimise system performance, whilst protecting the health, safety and well-being of individuals involved. The attention of ergonomics extends across work, leisure and other aspects of our daily lives. The journal Ergonomics is an international refereed publication, with a 60 year tradition of disseminating high quality research. Original submissions, both theoretical and applied, are invited from across the subject, including physical, cognitive, organisational and environmental ergonomics. Papers reporting the findings of research from cognate disciplines are also welcome, where these contribute to understanding equipment, tasks, jobs, systems and environments and the corresponding needs, abilities and limitations of people. All published research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymous refereeing by independent expert referees.