We introduce the preliminary exploration of AniBalloons, a novel form of chat balloon animations aimed at enriching nonverbal affective expression in text-based communications. AniBalloons were designed using extracted motion patterns from affective animations and mapped to six commonly communicated emotions. An evaluation study with 40 participants assessed their effectiveness in conveying intended emotions and their perceived emotional properties. The results showed that 80% of the animations effectively conveyed the intended emotions. AniBalloons covered a broad range of emotional parameters, comparable to frequently used emojis, offering potential for a wide array of affective expressions in daily communication. The findings suggest AniBalloons' promise for enhancing emotional expressiveness in text-based communication and provide early insights for future affective design.

翻译：我们介绍了AniBalloons的初步探索，这是一种新颖的聊天气泡动画形式，旨在丰富基于文本的交流中的非语言情感表达。AniBalloons的设计利用了从情感动画中提取的运动模式，并将其映射到六种常见传达的情绪。一项包含40名参与者的评估研究评估了它们在传达预期情绪及其感知情感属性方面的有效性。结果显示，80%的动画有效传达了预期情绪。AniBalloons覆盖了广泛的情感参数，与常用表情符号相当，为日常交流中丰富的情感表达提供了潜力。研究结果表明，AniBalloons有望增强基于文本的交流中的情感表达力，并为未来的情感设计提供了早期见解。