Spontaneous interaction in ubiquitous computing settings requires a simple, well-understood means for users to communicate with devices in their nearby environment, some kind of equipment most people are familiar with, and a mechanism to determine whether certain entities can interact with each other. Mobile phones are a well-established means for people to communicate not only verbally, but al...

This study investigated whether mobile learning via Short Message Service (SMS-learning) is accepted by the students enrolled in the distance learning academic programme in the Universiti Sains Malaysia. This study explored the impact of perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use and usability of the system to their acceptability. The survey was constructed using a questionnaire consisting of ...

Information security is one of the major concerns while transferring some information publicly. With the advancement in the communication medium there are chances of more threats in the communication system. In this work, we have focused on the threats associated with SMS (Short Message Service) Communication in android environment. The work is about to define an effective symmetric cryptograph...

Abstract With the increasing of telecom network fraud in China, SMS (Short Message Service) has became an important channel exploited by criminals to contact victims. Due tiny amount compared with normal SMS, high proportion malicious adversarial characters, and lack knowledge specific types, it is still challenging identify efficiently. In this paper, we firstly conduct a measurement study exp...

Today’s young people are surrounded by communication technologies that have a central place in their daily lives, such as the internet and mobile phones. Text messaging (short message service, SMS), for example, became a fully established phenomenon by the late 1990s. And teens were especially quick to adopt it. Today, SMS is the second most used mobile phone service (after voice) in Europe and...

This is a research in progress. The study reviews four theoretical modes on mobile technology and proposes a unified model to understand consumer attitude, intention, and behavior when using Short Message Service (SMS) in mobile technology. The proposed model includes SMS success factors, consumer beliefs, SMS success measure, and demographic dimensions. By setting the study in an international...

0957-4174/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2011.08.113 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +65 6248 9247; fax: + E-mail address: [email protected] (C.K. Leon This paper explores the potential application of sentiment mining for analyzing short message service (SMS) texts in teaching evaluation. Data preparation involves the reading, parsing and categorization of the SMS ...

The Covid-19 pandemic has had a major socio-economic impact on the community, especially decline in income and job losses. urgency of economic needs makes people make online loans that are illegal have very high interest rates. lack public knowledge about licensed resulted debtors being trapped large debts spreading personal data. Considering rural communities who low levels education victims p...

Despite the expansion of Deaf people's use of communication technology little is published about how they use electronic communication in their social and working lives and the implications for their concepts of identity and community. Australia is an ideal research base because the use of a range of technologies is widespread there. To gain access to a wide age range of people who identify as ...

BACKGROUND Mobile health (mHealth) has been posited to contribute to the reduction in health gaps and has shown fast and widespread growth in developing countries. This growth demands understanding of, and preparedness for, local cultural contexts. OBJECTIVE To describe the design and validation of text messages (short message service, SMS) that will be used for an mHealth behavioral change i...