Yusabutter: A Messaging Tool That Generates Animated Texts

摘要

Text messages sometimes fail to communicate feelings appropriately and cause flaming. To solve this problem, we propose a messaging tool, named "Yusabutter," that conveys the sender's feeling through animated texts, i.e., kinetic typography. The sender can make texts move by shaking a handy terminal with a builtin accelerometer. We have also implemented a Yusabutter server that generates a Web page containing the animated message and posts the message along with the URI of the page on Twitter. Experiments showed that the senders' feeling attached to messages by shaking the terminal and the receivers' feeling upon reading the messages were approximately equivalent. This result suggests that the proposed method can convey feelings appropriately, easily, and pleasingly.