For millions of people, text-based computer-mediated communication (CMC) is a convenient and engaging way to exchange information and opinion. Research shows that the social ambiguity of text-based CMC, such as email, can both promote participation and group cohesion and lead to misunderstanding, offence and social division. We report a field experiment that attempted to expose some underlying ...

Nowadays, intercultural communication via email among various groups and societies has been increasingly important as an aspect of communication. This research aims at investigating aspects of politeness meaning negotiation via emails exchanged between English and Persian speakers with different cultural backgrounds. The present study also reveals the potentials for using emails to experience c...

With the advancement in information communication technology (ICT), cyber-attacks have become a global phenomenon, with email phishing at topmost. Academic institutions' ICT infrastructures are one of many targets, thus need to facilitate cybersecurity awareness among students. This research is aimed investigating students’ susceptibility attacks for sustainable safe electronic mail (email) usa...

Y. LI1,2,3,∗, J.J. BOT, M.J.T. REINDERS and D. DE RIDDER Information & Communication Theory Group, Faculty of Electrical Eng., Mathematics & Computer Science, Delft University of Technology, Mekelweg 4, 2628 CD Delft, The Netherlands 2 Netherlands Bioinformatics Centre, P.O. Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands 3 Kluyver Centre for Genomics of Industrial Fermentation, Julianalaan 67, 262...

Seeking to enhance communication systems by adding expressive cues. A s the business environment has become distributed, fast-paced, and dependent on information and communication technology, email continues to be an effective and efficient communication medium for interpersonal and interorganizational communication. Despite the expected prolific usage, email remains underutilized within many o...

BACKGROUND Electronic mail (email) has the potential to improve communication between physicians and patients. METHODS We conducted two research studies in a family practice setting: 1) a brief, anonymous patient survey of a convenience sample to determine the number of clinic patients receptive to communicating with their physician via email, and 2) a randomized, controlled pilot study to as...

As digital communication devices play an increasingly prominent role in our daily lives, the ability to analyze and understand our communication patterns becomes more important. In this paper, we investigate a latent variable modeling approach for extracting information from individual email histories, focusing in particular on understanding how an individual communicates over time with recipie...