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People’s non-verbal communication, accounting for as high as 70 percent in daily communication, can deepen interpersonal communication and convey what cannot be conveyed in language. It, however, has not been fully used in present mobile instant messaging. The author of this paper tries to integrate virtual body communication interaction into mobile instant messaging through analyzing mobile instant messaging and its user distribution. Under this mode of communication, mobile phones will be used as the communication channel with cartoon comic and supply varied applications for different genders as its main style and hence achieve interaction and diversify the ways of interpersonal communication.
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Dai, L. (2011). New Development of Mobile Instant Messaging: Virtual Body Communication Interaction. In: Rau, P.L.P. (eds) Internationalization, Design and Global Development. IDGD 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6775. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21660-2_54
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