BACKGROUND To complement the oversubscribed counselling services in Alberta, the Text4Mood program which delivers daily supportive text messages to subscribers was launched on the 18th of January, 2016. This report presents an evaluation of self-reports of the impact of the program on the mental wellbeing of subscribers. METHODS An online link to a survey questionnaire was created by an exper...

Steganography, or information hiding, is to conceal the existence of messages so as to protect their confidentiality. We consider deciphering a stegoscript, a text with secret messages embedded within a covertext, and identifying the vocabularies used in the messages, with no knowledge of the vocabularies and grammar in which the script was written. Our research was motivated by the problem of ...

Online Social Networks (OSNs) are the most impulsive standard to provide communication, sharing and disseminate a significant amount of individual life data. Content can be changed based on daily needs in several communication fields (audio, video, image, and text). One of the important aspects of OSN is to give the user capacity to automatically manage the messages posted and also to filter th...

CRM managers are frequently overloaded with large number of text messages from their customers, and making sense of those messages is a difficult task. We introduce an interactive toolset that can facilitate the exploration of CRM data semi-automatically. This toolset is based on the state of the art text processing technologies and allows CRM managers to discover interactively the re-occurring...

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practice recommends all children be vaccinated annually against Influenza. Given the increased use of technology as a strategy to increase immunization coverage, theorybased text messaging may result in higher vaccination rates than traditional vaccine reminders. This article describes the development of theory-based text messages for parents of 5 to 8-yea...

OBJECTIVE This study investigated the effects of using a cell phone to retrieve and send text messages on the driving performance of young novice drivers. BACKGROUND Young drivers are particularly susceptible to driver distraction and have an increased risk of distraction-related crashes. Distractions from in-vehicle devices, particularly, those that require manual input, are known to cause d...

The best entertainment for the younger generation now is given in the form of Social Networking sites. The Online Social Networks (OSN) mainly helps an individual to connect with their friends, family and the society online in order to gather and share new experiences with others. Nowa-days, the OSNs are facing the problem of the people posting the indecent messages on any individual's wall whi...

living in modern societies is full of advertising messages. these messages in diverse and numerous forms affect every day and working life of people. one of the most challenging subjects in advertising is representation of women in advertising and commercial promotions. a large part of representations in advertisements depicts women in their role as cultural stereotypes. the purpose of this stu...

Online Social Networks (OSNs) are the most impulsive standard to provide communication, sharing and disseminate a significant amount of individual life data. Content can be changed based on daily needs in several communication fields (audio, video, image, and text). One of the important aspects of OSN is to give the user capacity to automatically manage the messages posted and also to filter th...

Emoticons are graphic signs, such as :-)(smiley face), that often accompany textual computer-mediated communication (Dresner & Herring, 2010). Emoticons are thought to be used to convey emotion (Derks et al, 2007; Wolf, 2000). Specifically, it is believed that emoticons supplement electronic communication with non-verbal cues, such as those often seen in face-to-face communication (Lo, 2008). W...