BACKGROUND The number of adolescents with chronic health conditions (CHCs) continues to increase. Medication nonadherence is a global challenge among adolescents across chronic conditions and is associated with poor health outcomes. While there has been growing interest in the use of mHealth technology to improve medication adherence among adolescents with CHCs, particularly text messaging and ...

Background Previous studies have highlighted the magnitude of risky drinking among Swedish students; finding that at least 50% of the students could be classified as risky drinkers [1]. Human resources are not sufficient to offer all risky drinkers face-to-face brief interventions. Text messaging is the least advanced but also the least expensive eHealth technology that virtual works on all mob...

BACKGROUND Adherence to antiplatelet medications is critical to prevent life threatening complications (ie, stent thrombosis) after percutaneous coronary interventions (PCIs), yet rates of nonadherence range from 21-57% by 12 months. Mobile interventions delivered via text messaging or mobile apps represent a practical and inexpensive strategy to promote behavior change and enhance medication a...

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...

Instant messaging dialogue is real-time, text-based computer-mediated communication conducted over the Internet. Messages sent over instant messaging can be encoded We propose a method of using dialogue acts to predict utterances in taskoriented dialogue. Dialogue acts provide a semantic representation of utterances in a dialogue. An evaluation using a dialogue simulation program shows that our...

conclusions mobile phone text messaging increased adherence to diabetes therapy and improved the clinical outcome in saudi patients with type 2 diabetes. results in addition to significant improvement in patients’ knowledge, mean fasting blood glucose level improved from 8.60 ± 3.16 to 7.77 ± 3.11 mmol/l and mean hba1c decreased from 9.9% ± 1.8% to 9.5% ± 1.7%. objectives we conducted a study t...

The purpose of this study was to determine if electronic messaging would increase min of aerobic physical activity (PA) among older adults. Participants were active older adults (n = 28; M age = 60 years, SD = 5.99, and range = 51-74 years). Using an incomplete within-subjects crossover design, participants were randomly assigned to begin the 4-week study receiving the treatment condition (a mo...