Context-based message creation via user-selectable icons

A wearable computing device to generate a text message from user-selectable icons, the wearable computing device comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• one or more memory devices having stored therein a plurality of instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the wearable computing device to:
• determine a context associated with the wearable computing device;
• determine one or more user-selectable icons of a plurality of predefined user-selectable icons, wherein each of the plurality of predefined user-selectable icons has multiple textual meanings associated therewith for text message generation and wherein to determine the one or more user-selectable icons comprises to determine one or more user-selectable icons as a function of (i) the context associated with the wearable computing device and (ii) the multiple textual meanings associated with each user-selectable icon;
• display the determined one or more user-selectable icons on a display of the wearable computing device;
• receive a selection of a user-selectable icon displayed on the wearable computing device for text message generation;
• determine, in response to the selection of the user-selectable icon, whether to display one or more user-selectable sub-icons based on the selected user-selectable icon;
• and
• display, in response to a determination that the one or more user-selectable sub-icons are to be displayed, the one or more user-selectable sub-icons.