Electronic communication technologies continue to change the landscape of reference services. For many users, virtual communication is the preferred means of conversing. Synchronous virtual reference, similar to other synchronous means of communication, is an important method for reaching students and for providing teaching and learning opportunities. Grounded Theory (GT) research provides a me...

The SuperKOM computer conferencing system was designed to incorporate many ideas from older messaging and conference systems in a simple and generalpurpose internal structure. This paper describes the design goals, and then describes how the internal structure of SuperKOM was designed to meet these goals. In particular, SuperKOM provides a distributed, highly structured conference system and in...

The success of a dispute resolution over an electronic transaction depends on the possibility of trustworthily recreating it. It is crucial to maintain a trusted, thus fully auditable, repository to which a judge could request a transaction recreation. This article presents a practical scheme providing strong guarantees about the auditability of a trusted repository. We use the messaging paradi...

The traditional college student of today is part of the Net Generation who has been raised in an era of instant access. Their communication and learning is complemented by the Internet, a major influence on this cohort. The regular method of contact is text messaging, instant messaging and cell phones. Learning methods for the Net Generation include Internet tools such as Web-CT, Blackboard, on...

— In this paper we present the DLM 3.0 project’s vision for e-mail communication in enterprise. The project promotes the use of semantic techniques, based on case studies and ergonomic analysis to improve current email tools, in an enterprise context. The project’s realm is to create a corporate social network centered on email, with email being connected to the company tools, and automatically...

Collaboration in hospitals is coordinated mainly by communication, which currently happens by face-to-face meetings, phone calls, pagers, notes and the electronic patient record. These habits raise problems e.g., delayed notifications and unnecessary interruptions. Dealing with these problems could save time and improve the care. Therefore we designed and prototyped a mobile messaging solution ...

BACKGROUND Tobacco use is one of the leading preventable global health problems producing nearly 6 million smoking-related deaths per year. Interventions delivered via text messaging (short message service, SMS) may increase access to educational and support services that promote smoking cessation across diverse populations. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this meta-analysis is to (1) evaluate the e...

This paper presents a context-aware guidance and messaging system for large buildings and surrounding venues. Smart Signs are a new type of electronic doorand way-sign based on wireless sensor networks. Smart Signs present in-situ personalized guidance and messages, are ubiquitous, and easy to understand. They combine the easiness of use of traditional static signs with the flexibility and reac...

This document describes the proposal of the messaging service HikerNet enabling electronic communication in areas without ordinary networking access. The transport of the messages is based on small devices that are carried around, and which can exchange messages at close range based on peer-to-peer connections in an ad-hoc network. This document outlines how the HikerNet is designed, and discus...