The recognition of personal emotional state or sentiment conveyed through text is the main task we address in our research. The communication of emotions through text messaging and posts of personal blogs poses the ‘informal style of writing’ challenge for researchers expecting grammatically correct input. Our Affect Analysis Model was designed to handle the informal messages written in an abbr...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate whether text-messaging programs can improve reproductive health among adolescent girls in low- and middle-income countries. METHODS We conducted a cluster-randomized controlled trial among 756 female students aged 14 to 24 years in Accra, Ghana, in 2014. We randomized 38 schools to unidirectional intervention (n = 12), interactive intervention (n = 12), and control (n =...

BACKGROUND Outpatient cardiac rehabilitation (OP-CR) is a highly beneficial program but vastly under utilized. METHODS The efficacy of a text-messaging program was analyzed to determine if implementation could improve number of OP-CR sessions completed. All patients enrolled in OP-CR from July 2011 through December 2012 were invited to join a text-messaging program on their first visit. The p...

Instant Messaging is today’s killer application. Millions of consumer users are exploring the implications of real-time text messaging and finding that it is a perfect supplement to and, in some cases, substitute for voice communications. The enterprise market has only recently begun considering applications to business collaboration, and has found that consumer products are not generally suita...

Introduction SMS text messaging is increasingly used for delivering smoking cessation support and pilot studies suggest this may also be useful in pregnancy. This study explores the views of women who received a tailored text messaging cessation intervention (MiQuit) during pregnancy, focusing on acceptability, perceived impact, and suggestions for improvements. Methods Semi-structured interv...

BACKGROUND Automated text messages on mobile phones have been found to be effective for smoking cessation in adult smokers. OBJECTIVE This study aims to test the acceptability and feasibility of SmokefreeMOM, a national smoking cessation text-messaging program for pregnant smokers. METHODS Participants were recruited from prenatal care and randomized to receive SmokefreeMOM (n=55), an autom...

PURPOSE To examine whether patients with mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) receiving text messaging-based education and behavioral support had fewer and less severe postconcussive symptoms than those not receiving text-message support. Our secondary objective was to determine the feasibility of using text messaging to assess daily symptoms and provide support to patients with mTBI. DESIGN Ra...

Text messaging may be excessive and young people may be dependent on it. We distributed the Self-perception of Text-message Dependency Scale (STDS), Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI), and Relationship Questionnaire (RQ) to 223 Japanese university students in a two-wave study, separated by a 5-month interval. The STDS yielded a three-factor s...

BACKGROUND The Internet and mobile devices are increasingly used by men who have sex with men to find potential partners. Lack of partner information, besides e-mail addresses or user profiles, limits the ability to adequately perform partner notification by traditional means and test those at high risk. To streamline North Carolina Internet Partner Notification (IPN) services, University of No...

The use of digital mobile phones has led to a tremendous increase in communication using SMS. On a phone keypad, multiple words are mapped to same numeric code. We propose a Context Based Word Prediction system for SMS messaging in which context is used to predict the most appropriate word for a given code. We extend this system to allow informal words (short forms for proper English words). Th...