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Showing 1 to 20 of 568 for “"Messaging"”.
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Toward effective conversational messaging
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1995.
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Mechanisms for efficient, protected messaging
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1999.
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What's at stake in political messaging?
… the current and potential impacts of campaigns’ messaging in shaping public opinion. Based on evidence from a set of large-scale, randomized, online survey experiments which span multiple electoral contexts and policy issues, I draw the following conclusions. 1. While messages produced by real …
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A distributed metadata-private messaging system
Private communication over the Internet continues to be a difficult problem. Even if messages are encrypted, it is hard to deliver them without revealing metadata about which pairs of users are communicating. Scalable systems such as Tor are susceptible to traffic analysis. In contrast, the …
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Multi-party and distributed private messaging
In this thesis, I extend private messaging systems by designing multi-party private messaging models and contribute to the implementation of a distributed private messaging system. Private communication is of increasing interest yet current state-of-the- art adopted solutions are inadequate in …
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Towards understanding mobile messaging ecologies : an exploration of the meanings young people attach to instant messaging channels
… In youth culture specifically, instant messaging allows young people to achieve limited autonomy, explore peer groups and an evolving sense of self. This dissertation explores a model for understanding how instant messaging facilitates this. Theories of media ecologies provide useful …
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An XML Messaging Service for Mobile Devices
… include SOAP for Web services, XMPP for instant messaging, and RSS and Atom for content syndication. This XML usage is understandable, as the format itself is a well-accepted standard for structured data, and it has excellent support for many popular programming languages, so inventing an …
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Realtime routing and messaging in wireless networks
… not appeared yet. In this thesis, a practical messaging application for mobile computing is presented and a realtime Zone Routing Protocol (ZRP) for underlying wireless networks is evaluated. Mobile Yellow page Messaging and Retrieval (MYMAR) system is a new application for self-organized IEEE …
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Vuvuzela : scalable private messaging that hides metadata
Private messaging over the Internet has proven challenging to implement, because even if message data is encrypted, it is difficult to hide metadata about who is communicating in the face of traffic analysis. Systems that offer strong privacy guarantees, such as Dissent [39], scale to only several …
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Targeting Negative Urgency and Expectancies in Persuasive Messaging
… (e.g., sensation seeking) via persuasive messaging has also been associated with reduced substance use. However, trait negative urgency, a unique domain of impulsivity involving rash action during negative affect, has yet to be used as a target for prevention efforts. Although scholars …
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A corpus linguistics study of SMS text messaging
This thesis reports a study using a corpus of text messages in English (CorTxt) to explore linguistic features which define texting as a language variety. It focuses on how the language of texting, Txt, is shaped by texters actively fulfilling interpersonal goals. The thesis starts with an overview …
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Performance, Ritual and Messaging in Encomium Emmae reginae
ABSTRACT Performance, Ritual and Messaging in Encomium Emmae reginae This thesis examines the Encomium Emmae reginae primarily through the lens of demonstrative behaviour, which covers the gamut of actions from formal ceremonies to social rituals to individual acts of verbal and non-verbal …
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Effective Messaging for Tackling NIMBY to Accelerate Decarbonization
This study aims to evaluate the efficacy of communication strategies in changing the public perceptions of energy and other facilities that are typically perceived as environmental and health risks. We use the existing US-wide survey data in which the participants were asked about the risks of …
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An XML messaging protocol for multimodal galaxy applications
Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2002.
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Instant Messaging Usage and Academic and Social Integration
… how the current student population uses Instant Messaging to supplement traditional behaviors associated with academic and social engagement. The present study was designed to address these gaps in the present literature on social and academic integration. The purpose of this study was to examine …
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Moral Matching: Strategic Messaging to Overcome Barriers to Persuasion
… was to identify what features of COVID-19 health messaging contribute to perceived message fatigue. The second purpose was to reframe this content using moral rhetoric and experimentally test the effects of morally framed messages that match or mismatch an individual’s moral foundation on active …
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Contextual awareness, messaging and communication in nomadic audio environments
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1998.
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Messaging for large-scale distributed computation with factor graphs
We present a language for generic computation using Factor Graphs, a computationally convenient data structure abstraction that has been popularly utilized for efficient inference in the framework of probabilistic graphical models cf. [22, 15, 30]. We show that message passing over Factor Graphs is …
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Database design development : i-LINK, an integrated messaging framework
… become apparent. A server-based Integrated Messaging Framework (IMF) provides all communication media messages with a common messaging format. i-LINK, an intelligent client application uses IMF to send, receive, log, and store messages from different communication channels. There are …
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