The use of chats is being increased; however, they cannot be used by everybody because they present accessibility barriers. Previous research works have solved some of these problems, but accessibility problems related to the user interaction have not been solved yet. This work is part of a research which main goals are to provide a model-based accessible chat and a development process strategy...

Recent increases in syphilis in gay men in urban areas in the US and Europe have been associated with men meeting new sex partners on the Internet in chat-rooms and at websites that facilitate partner meeting. In response to the syphilis epidemic in San Francisco, the San Francisco Department of Public Health partnered with a community-based organization, Internet Sexuality Information Services...

This paper reports on a study into the effects of digital game play on learners’ interaction in English as a foreign language. 30 Thai learners of English enrolled in a 15-week University language course completed 18 face-to-face classroom lessons, as well as six sessions playing Ragnarok Online, a popular online roleplaying game. The game had been altered to include a number of quests for lear...

Data Stream Mining is one of the area gaining lot of practical significance and is progressing at a brisk pace with new methods, methodologies and findings in various applications related to medicine, computer science, bioinformatics and stock market prediction, weather forecast, text, audio and video processing to name a few. Data happens to be the key concern in data mining. With the huge onl...

Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) is known to be productive if well structured. In CSCL, students construct knowledge by performing learning tasks while communicating about their work. This communication most often done through online written chats. Understanding what happening in chats important from both research and practical perspectives. From a perspective, insight into chat...

BACKGROUND No former investigation has been performed related to the linguistic characteristics of patients with eating disorders using online synchronous communication mediums like chats. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to investigate the linguistic predictors of improvement in eating disorder-related attitudes, behaviours and emotional distress of patients with eating disorders. M...