We present a study of how awareness of presence affects content of instant messaging sent between students using WebWho, an easily accessible web-based awareness tool. WebWho visualizes where people are located in a large university computer lab and allows students to virtually locate one another and communicate via an instant messaging system. As WebWho is there to be accessed through any web ...

The popularity of chat rooms for personal computing has been a prelude to instant messaging (IM) in the business world. Just how extensive IM is in the business world, who is using it, how it is being used, what are the concerns with its use and what is the future of IM are explored in this paper. Current professional literature on IM was examined and a survey of full-time working MBA students ...

I-X Process Panels are used to support users who are carrying out processes and responding to events in a cooperative working environment. The panels support the tracking of personal or group issues, the planning and execution of activities and the checking of constraints. Panels can be connected to other panels, and also to a range of services, agents and other cooperative working support tool...

Research on email, voicemail, and instant messaging highlights the extent to which conversations often consist of multiple messages exchanged over a fairly extended period of time, using more than one communication medium. This research in progress explores the impact of increasing availability and integration of communication tools on media switching practices, which is the act of changing med...

For many firms, the ability to capture and maintain market share and profitability on the Internet is dependent on a firm’s ability to create and maintain a closed competition system (CCS) – that is, a system of business operation with customers that competitors can neither enter nor emulate very effectively. A CCS can be created through market, technological, or policy means. Sometimes these d...

<span>A variety of internet-based applications are widely used in our animation activities because they provide free and useful services. These applications, such as Instant Messaging, can be run via the web, mobile, or computer-based devices. Therefore, security privacy user data over these apps have been concerned recent years sensitive confidential information considerations. Consequen...

Virus Throttling is a technique to slow the spread of worms and viruses by targeting their propagation. It works by preventing an infected machine infecting many others. This then results in fewer machines becoming infected and less traffic generated by the virus. The technique has been shown to work well for worms that spread over many TCP/IP protocols as well as email. This paper applies the ...

Instant Messaging (IM) is a popular and widely used communication application. MiChat multi-platform instant chat service with several features that can attract various segments of the population to use it as tool for committing cybercrimes. A forensic framework tools are needed carry out physical evidence investigation procedures. This study focuses on analyzing comparing during research, base...

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Mobile technology benefits education by pervading learning activity, increasing efficiency in learning, empowering learners, enabling distance learning, encouraging real-world interaction and allowing spontaneous collaborations and learning to occur. At the ACET Centre, we are developing a collaborative computing platform, Coco, which builds on peer-to-peer and mobile technology. Coco supports ...