In instant messaging (IM) systems, it is useful to know during an IM conversation whether the other party is composing a message; e.g., typing or recording an audio message. This document defines a new status message content type and XML namespace that conveys information about a message being composed. The status message can indicate the composition of a message of any type, including text, vo...

Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) has been extended by IETF SIMPLE Working Group to enhance the basic protocol with Instant Messaging and Presence functionalities. These extensions are, however, dependent on the Internet and SIP infrastructure. Ad hoc networks being devoid of any such infrastructure, require auxiliary mechanisms to support such extensions. In this paper, we present a brief over...

WhatsApp is the most popular mobile instant messaging (IM) app in global south. Hence, its use informal and formal learning spaces has significant potential worthy of investigation. This study explored how University faculty students Namibia India used for support to bridge gap between learning. From a total 182 participants, results reveal that engage users an delivery environment. Learning de...

Cryptocat is a Free and Open Source Software (FL/OSS) browser extension that makes use of web technologies in order to provide easy to use, accessible, encrypted instant messaging to the general public. We aim to investigate how to best leverage the accessibility and portability offered by web technologies in order to allow encrypted instant messaging an opportunity to better permeate on a soci...

Over the years, instant messaging has evolved from simply delivering textual messages from one person to another, to a concept in which rich content can be shared across remote participants. However, despite the importance of technologies like instant messaging in interpersonal interaction, communication of affect (and other emotional expressions) is not well supported by current technology. Th...

Instant Messaging (IM) is a type of communications service over the Internet that enables individuals to exchange text messages and track availability of a list of users in real-time. The existing instant messaging technology does not provide built-in support for security feature as proposed idea. And also in Battle Field Management System the most commonly used as means of communication is Wal...

In this paper, we propose to endow a graphical representation of a user in Instant Messaging – an avatar – with the ability to recognize and to express emotions and to play social nonverbal behaviour, on the basis of textual affect sensing and interpretation of communicative functions conveyed by online conversations. The developed Affect Analysis Model integrated with Instant Messaging (IM) me...

Many studies of technology adoption have noted that new technology can have far-reaching effects, dramatically changing the environment (e.g., work, home, school) in which we use the technology. The current research operationalizes the equity implementation model (EIM) to provide an equity/fairness perspective on technology adoption in the context of online discussion tools. The EIM applies equ...