this study aims at explaining informal internet-based chat format with respect to its genre and writing components and system. the researchers analyzed 53 chat samples which were produced by 53 iranian students in high intermediate and advanced levels of english in a private institute while chatting with foreigners. besides the genre analysis, the purposes why people all around the world chat o...

We present a reproducible method to analyze the state of software development practices in a given scientific domain and apply this method to Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The analysis is based on grading a set of 30 GIS products using a template of 56 questions based on 13 software qualities. The products range in scope and purpose from a complete desktop GIS systems, to stand-alone to...

to be followed by Internet Relay Chat (IRC) and its proprietary equivalents. As computing power grew, graphic systems’ performance improved, networks became faster, better-organised, cheaper and more accessible to lay people, the advents and implications of Virtual Reality gained wider interest. As a result the first interactive 3D environments were created and the concept of community led to t...

Coterie, a visualization of online social interaction in IRC channels, provides a rich and highly informative display of social patterns. A viewer is presented with an explicit portrayal of the social patterns and interaction within a chat room through a live, dynamic, and aesthetic display of the activity within a channel mediated by historical interaction

Despite the recent innovations of radio and telecommunications, communication and language theorists make a sharp distinction between the spoken and the written word. That distinction is based on a perception of temporal and spatial proximity in the case of spoken communication, and distance in the case of written communication. "Most analyses of linguistic interaction," as Naomi Baron notes, "...

Chat system has gained popularity as a tool for real-time conversation. However, standard chat systems have problems due to lack of timing information. To tackle this problem, we have built a system which has the following functions: 1) function of making typing state visible; 2) floor holding function at the start of typing. The evaluation results show that the sys-tem with each new function s...

This paper is primarily about design and some of the difficulties of “appropriate” design in care settings. This is hardly a novel concern but this particular focus arises as a consequence of digital technologies maturing and transferring to the everyday domain. Domestic environments are becoming key sites for the consumption of information and communication technologies, embracing in the “care...

Current techniques for detecting botnets examine traffic content for IRC commands, monitor DNS for strange usage, or set up honeynets to capture live bots. Our botnet detection approach is to examine flow characteristics such as bandwidth, packet timing, and burst duration for evidence of botnet command and control activity. We have constructed an architecture that first eliminates traffic that...