Supporting awareness plays a prominent role in facilitating natural and effective communication in Instant Messaging (IM). This paper reports our empirical study of awareness in I...
Instant messaging has become a part of our daily live. Instant communication, either with a mobile device or with a computer based application, is an increasingly used form of com...
Once some stable solutions appear to be found at physical and network layers for cooperative Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), deploying vehicular services and managing the...
Instant Messaging (IM) is a useful tool for collaborative work. However, the awareness and communication features of IM pose a tension with privacy desires. Inadequate support for...
— Due to the real time nature and buddy list presence information of Instant Messaging (IM) systems worms can spread over IM networks rapidly, causing severe damages, however, it...