OBJECTIVE To examine adherence to, satisfaction with, and preliminary efficacy of mobile phone short message service (SMS) to promote health behaviors in school-aged children. METHODS A total of 49 children (aged 8-10 years) were randomized by school classes into a monitoring vs no-monitoring group. All children participated in 2 educational group sessions that focused on health behaviors: th...

In 2013 an avian influenza outbreak occurred in a large poultry farm in Young (approximately 2 hours north-west of Canberra.) The responsible strain was H7N2, which is highly pathogenic and can affect humans. Daily surveillance was required for those individuals who were possibly exposed. This was conducted through the use of daily message through the short message service (SMS). A total of 55 ...

The Short Message Service (SMS) has been available in Hong Kong and China since the late 1990s. However, the user acceptance patterns for this service have been evidently different in these two regions. Based on fieldwork in Hong Kong and China, this study attempts to explain these differences through the information technology acceptance framework, which posits that various external factors im...

This study explored the students’ acceptance of Mobile Learning via Short Message Service (SMS-Learning) amongst distance learners in the Universiti Sains Malaysia. This study aims to examine the student’s acceptance towards the language use in SMS-Learning content, the cost of communicating and also the navigation of the system. The study employed the qualitative methodology where data were co...

Short message service (SMS) is extremely popular today. Currently, it is being mainly used for peer-to-peer communication. However, SMS could be used as public media platform to enhance social and public interactions in an intuitive way. We have developed BlogWall to extend the SMS to a new level of self-expression and public communication by combining art and poetry. Furthermore, it will provi...

Mobile telephony is currently the most popular and widespread communication technology on the planet greatly exceeding that of fixed broadband. The way people communicate is a manifestation of their culture, i.e. general beliefs and core values formed during childhood and reinforced throughout life. Currently, there is little systematic cross-cultural research to explicate the effects of indivi...

An interface system utilizing GSM service with low-cost hardware equipment is proposed to enable mobile access to experimental setups via short message service SMS commands in order to perform virtual remote measurements. Communication between a mobile phone client and a remote PC server is achieved through programming the server using attention commands AT and the protocol description unit PDU...

As a convenient and low-cost mobile communication technology, short messaging service (SMS) is experiencing rapid growth and our findings provide practical implications for promoting SMS based Virtual Private Network successfully. Secure communication is an important aspect of any networking environment and also is an especially significant challenge in data transmission, fund transfers, import...