@inproceedings{6b24621ed8cc4d83ad9c911070720526,
title = "EmoType-Zero: Adaptive Fonts to Render the Speech Emotion",
abstract = "Text messaging often lacks paralinguistic cues essential for interpreting emotional tone. To explore visual alternatives, we first conducted a co-design study with 9 participants to distill a design space mapping vocal intonations to visual parameters (Geometry, Texture, and Motion). We developed EmoType-Zero, a research probe to operationalize these concepts. We then deployed this probe in a user study with 25 participants to empirically evaluate user perceptions. Results reveal a critical design trade-off: while the Combo mode (combining geometry, texture, and motion) achieved the highest emotional fidelity (mean ranking: M = 1.60, rank 1=best), its visual complexity compromised text legibility (M = 4.56). Consequently, participants preferred the subtle Geometry mode (M = 2.24) for daily usage, prioritizing clarity over high-intensity effects. Subjective feedback validated the probe's utility, with 80\% of participants agreeing that it improved emotional understanding and 72\% expressing willingness to adopt the system for situational impairments and social modulation.",
keywords = "Affective Computing, Emotional Kinetic Typography, Speech-to-Text, Voice Input",
author = "Dong She and Jinghe Yu and Nuo Chen and Yuting Bai and Yang Gao and Zhanpeng Jin",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2026 Copyright held by the owner/author(s).; Extended Abtracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2026 ; Conference date: 13-04-2026 Through 17-04-2026",
year = "2026",
month = apr,
day = "13",
doi = "10.1145/3772363.3798656",
language = "English",
series = "Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings ",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery ",
editor = "Nuria Oliver and Shamma, \{David A.\} and Heloisa Candello and Pablo Cesar and Pedro Lopes and Valentino Artizzu and Fiona Draxler and Gustavo Lopez and Reinschluessel, \{Anke V.\} and Xin Tong and \{Toups Dugas\}, \{Phoebe O.\}",
booktitle = "CHI 2026 - Extended Abtracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems",
address = "United States",
}