BACKGROUND Mobile text messaging is a potentially powerful tool for behaviour change because it is widely available, inexpensive, and instant. AIMS To evaluate whether mobile Text Messaging Service is a feasible mode of raising knowledge regarding maternal and child health (MCH) and to explore issues related to mobile text messages as a mode of health education. METHOD A community-based int...

A total of 110 youths were interviewed to determine the important predictors for mobile phone messaging satisfaction based on the mobile phone design and health effect factors. A cross-gender analysis was also performed to analyze the gender differences towards messaging satisfaction. Factor analysis resulted in seven independent variables viz. Mobile Phone Design, Keypad Design, Screen Design,...

Project Monitomation is a unique implementation which focuses on justifying the capability of smart wireless networks based on IEEE 802.15.4 standard, for low power, short range Personal Area Network (PAN) communication. Through this project wireless text messaging, device control & network monitoring is implemented to demonstrate the future of Internet of things . Keywordsautomation; labview; ...

BACKGROUND Public adherence to cancer screening guidelines is poor. Patient confusion over multiple recommendations and modalities for cancer screening has been found to be a major barrier to screening adherence. Such problems will only increase as screening guidelines and timetables become individualized. OBJECTIVE We propose to increase compliance with cancer screening through two-way rich ...

INTRODUCTION Millions of smokers use the Internet for smoking cessation assistance each year; however, most smokers engage minimally with even the best designed websites. The ubiquity of mobile devices and their effectiveness in promoting adherence in other areas of health behaviour change make them a promising tool to address adherence in Internet smoking cessation interventions. Text messagin...

BACKGROUND Cell phone text messaging, via the Short Messaging Service (SMS), offers the promise of a highly portable, well-accepted, and inexpensive modality for engaging youth and young adults in the management of their diabetes. This pilot and feasibility study compared two-way SMS cell phone messaging with e-mail reminders that were directed at encouraging blood glucose (BG) monitoring. ME...

Introduction Short Message Service (SMS), or texting, is a typical killer application. It is not only popular but profitable, bringing in significant revenue to network operators. There is even a strong after market selling RingTones, info alerts and crude interactive games. A great technological irony is that such a successful product is so under appreciated. For all of the frenzied SMS market...

Rapid development of information and communications technologies (ICT) has triggered profound changes in how people manage their social contacts in both informal and professional contexts. ICT mediated communication may seem limited in possibilities compared to face-to-face encounters, but research shows that puzzlingly often it can be just as effective and satisfactory. We posit that ICT users...

The use of social messaging as a means to represent activity and behaviour patterns across small geographical areas is explored. A large corpus of messages provides the source from which a range of interesting marker words are identified. Profiles of the variations in language across neighbourhoods can then be constructed. Areas are classified on the basis of the types of messages which they te...

The rapid popularization of smartphones has contributed to the growth of online Instant Messaging and SMS usage as an alternative way of communication. The increasing number of users, along with the trust they inherently have in their devices, makes such messages a propitious environment for spammers. In fact, reports clearly indicate that volume of spam over Instant Messaging and SMS is dramat...