BACKGROUND The doctor-patient relationship has been eroded by many factors. Would e-mail enhance communication and address some of the barriers inherent to our medical practices? METHODS Of our study population, 4 physicians offered e-mail communication to participating patients and 4 did not. Both patients and physicians completed questionnaires regarding satisfaction, perceived quality, con...

Human interpersonal face-to-face interaction can be considered in terms of successions of speech acts. These are utterances which contain an intention, and the act of creating an utterance causes the intention to be directed toward the recipient. In this study the language contained in emails is considered in a similar manner. Due to the relatively asynchronous nature of email communication, co...

Since the advent of the Internet, email has emerged as an important new form of personal communication. The focus of this research is on commercial advertising through the email channel. We analyze the underlying economics of a business model termed admediation that facilitates effective first-contact email advertising. Admediary is a trusted third party that facilitates a mutually desirable co...

E-mail is the most common mode of communication today. E-mail not only used for sending messages/text only but also to send audio, video and other files as attachment. It is main resource for business communication. As it is most popular and common mode of communication on internet, it also attracts criminals or persons having mischievous intent. Cyber criminals misuse it for sending spam, thre...

Group communication with email is performed by multicast making use of mailing lists. However, it is not quite possible to exclude any member out of the list temporarily. We try and apply some of the set operations to the destination address of a message to solve the problem. The idea is viewing email addresses as a language. Our prototype system works within a domain, however, in reality maili...

This work uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) in an electronic communication interface to improve people’s ability to focus on important communications. Many social cues that allow people to function naturally with their social networks offline are not obvious in Computer Mediated Communication (CMC). This work uses automatic social network analysis to bring some cues to CMC that foster the user’...

In this paper, we focus on the process of delivering software artifacts. Especially we analyze the process of delivering software requirement speci cation using email. From the results of a preliminary experiment, we de ne implicit versions, which do not exist explicitly such as in the form of documents or description in the speci cation. We assume that the implicit versions will have bad in ue...