Enhancing group‐based internet obesity treatment: A pilot RCT comparing video and text‐based chat

CBT for depression: a pilot RCT comparing mobile phone vs. computer

BACKGROUND This paper reports the results of a pilot randomized controlled trial comparing the delivery modality (mobile phone/tablet or fixed computer) of a cognitive behavioural therapy intervention for the treatment of depression. The aim was to establish whether a previously validated computerized program (The Sadness Program) remained efficacious when delivered via a mobile application. ...

Internet video chat (Skype) family conversations as a treatment of agitation in nursing home residents with dementia.

Promotional Chat on the Internet

C rooms, recommendation sites, and customer review sections allow consumers to overcome geographic boundaries and to communicate based on mutual interests. However, marketers also have incentives to supply promotional chat or reviews in order to influence the consumers’ evaluation of their products. Moreover, firms can disguise their promotion as consumer recommendations due to the anonymity af...

Emotion Analysis of Internet Chat

We present a system for Emotion Analysis of Instant Messages (IM). Using Instance Based classifier we have shown that our system can outperform similar systems in the IM domain. Tagged instant messages and elaborate feature engineering can help a lot in increasing the performance of text classification of unstruc-tured, ungrammatical text. The impact of class imbalance on classification has bee...

Textbased Modeling

As modeling becomes a crucial activity in software development the question may be asked whether currently used graphical representations are the best option to model systems efficiently. This position paper discusses the advantages of text-based modeling over commonly used graphical representations. It is inspired through the advent of new extensible development tools like Eclipse. The discuss...