It would be interesting to see emojis being designed from a more ground up perspective: Take a set of emotions, take pictures of people from various cultures/e

It would be interesting to see emojis being designed from a more ground up perspective: Take a set of emotions, take pictures of people from various cultures/ethnicities expressing those emotions - use some representative sample strategy. Publish the database of pictures. Try forming rules for how people generally express those emotions given relevant variables. Encode the resulting space into some clever bytecode representation. Now you have a basis for representing the semantics of emoticons, an alphabet if you will.