Do we draw on sensory information when perceiving emoji? The short answer is, yes! Team Emoji and I have been exploring how we perceive concepts represented in emoji based on different sensory modalities such as vision, smell, taste and so on. Our research is a replication of the Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms research led by our collaborator Dr Dermot Lynott, which gathered measures of sensorimotor strength for 39,707 concepts represented in English words. But instead, we are

Cyberpsychology is the psychology of technology use and online behaviour. One of the areas I am currently working on relates to how we apply principles from cyberpsychology to support digital adoption, and thus promote digital transformation and innovation. My collaborators and I have various projects in progress, and are developing tools which are informed by cyberpsychological theory to measure barriers to digital adoption, and therefore provide targeted solutions to suppo

One of my primary streams of research is on emoji processing. I was humbled to have been named the "Emoji Queen" recently by the lovely Carolyn Freeman ! Whilst my main motivation for pursuing this research is to build good quality research which draws in perspectives and expertise from cognitive science, there are some good reasons why this research has applied value too. Some reasons I believe that "Emoji Science" is important are: ✅ It helps us know whether they are appr