Instant Messaging (IM) is a popular chatting platform on the internet and increasingly permeates teenage life. Even intimate and emotional content is discussed. As touch is a powe...
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 soc...
Alena Neviarouskaya, Helmut Prendinger, Mitsuru Is...
Selective availability in instant messaging can improve connectiveness while at the same time keeping disruption low. In this paper we report on an experience sampling study of se...
Despite its popularity, commercial instant messaging has changed little in the past 15 years. Conversations are linear, immutable, and susceptible to errors in turn-taking and ref...
We discuss findings from an ethnographic study of instant messaging (IM) in the workplace and its implications for media theory. We describe how instant messaging supports a varie...