Affective Gesture Fast-track Feedback Instant Messaging (AGFIM)
A. Kayode Adesemowo · University of the Western Cape Electronic Theses and Dissertations Repository (University of the Western Cape) · 2005
ext communication is often perceived as lacking some components of communication that are essential in sustaining interaction or conversation.This interaction incoherency tends to make text communication plastic.It is traditionally devoid of intonation, pitch, gesture, facial expression and visual or auditory cues.Nevertheless, Instant Messaging (IM), a form of text communication is on the upward uptake both on PCs and on mobile handhelds.There is a need to rubberise this plastic text messaging to improve co-presence for text communications thereby improving synchronous textual discussion, especially on handheld devices.