Electronic messages are increasingly becoming the norm. The idea of assessing readability of electronic messages stemmed from the experiences of researchers who found the all-capitals format, paragraph agnostic US Navy message traffic emails difficult to read. The researchers focused on assessing readability of messages without taking physiological functions into account. Prior research has shown that external factors such as illumination, contrast, print size, font, legibility, format and text styles influence reading speed, comprehension, eye movement and reading strategy. Researchers have also found that humans are used to the familiarity of documents in mixed case, reading exclusively uppercase messages 13% slower. Uppercase reading has also been seen to confuse readers due to similarity amongst letters. Further, being larger, uppercase letters have been observed to impact reading speed. Text readability has also been acknowledged to affect reading speed and comprehension. However, research has been divided on the aspect of text readability due to the necessity of depending upon subjective responses from participants. Researchers have also observed that readers modify reading times based on their ultimate goals to be achieved from the reading; if they are aware that they would have to answer questions later, readers tend to read slower.
Based on prior research, the researchers hypothesized that participants in a proposed study would have slower reading times and would generate more incorrect answers when reading all-upper-case text as compared to emails in mixed case. They also hypothesized that participants who knew they would be questioned later would read messages more deliberately. They further hypothesized that participants would fare better in reading speed and retention after reading text that was emphasized with capitals or spaces. The final hypothesis of the researchers was that text written in exclusively upper case would be the least preferred style (Greer, Sowden, and Scharff).
Computer software consists of a program or programs made up of machine-readable instructions that perform a logical sequence of functions-anything from maintaining software a bookkeeping system to performing computer games. ... Similarly, electronic mail requires open pathways to sent messages, documents, and data from one computer "mailbox" to another across different equipment and program lines. ...
A third more technologically based computer crime is intercepting electronic emanations from computer equipment. ... Criminals receive electronic impulses from computer equipment when a computer key is struck. ... The first deals with a form of electronic sabotage that involves the actual destruction or impairing of data or equipment. ... There are two types of masquerading: physical and electronic. ... The use of unauthorized passwords is the most common type of electronic masquerading for two reasons. ...
Morse and the two British engineers Sir William Cook and Sir Charles Wheatstone developed a method of sending an electronic message over a distance of several miles almost instantaneously. ... The voice transducer (transmitter and receiver) technology developed by Bell paved the way for electronic recording of sounds, music, and voice. ... The other product was the electronic version of Grolier's Encyclopedia that actually contained a few pictures in addition to text. Both products were originally marketed through the Bureau of Electronic Publishing, a distributor of CD-ROM products. ... ...
• recognize fact, opinion, inference, and bias in texts Outcome 5: Discourse Conventions and Effective Style Students will produce coherent, organized, effective, readable academic writing for a variety of rhetorical situations, both print and digital. Related Objectives • understand the conventions of common academic writing (such as reading responses, blogs, listservs, message boards, academic arguments, rhetorical analyses, synthesis essays, and reviews) • analyze discourse conventions in professional and civic contexts • select evidence appropriate to the...
In privacy issue Moore points out the importance of encryption that enables citizens to encode messages that their recipients can read but are not readable by even the most computationally powerful codebreakes. ... This encryption created two extremely powerful anti-panoptic weapons; digital cash that offers the possibility to built an electronic economy where the seller can verify that buyer's credit is good and digital signature, which establishes certainty about the sender of the message without knowing who the seller, or buyer is. ... There is a web of illusions and we are not aware t...
Also, Air Canada reduced the cost of its operations by utilizing Information Systems once more in 2007 when it brought the concept of Electronic Boarding Passes. ... Air Canada made use of 2D barcode technology to introduce Electronic Boarding Passes. ...
Keep your message focused. ... Flaming is an inflammatory remark or message. ... Breaking up text using short lines and paragraphs and spaces is helpful in keeping your message readable. ... Otherwise, simply attach the original message. ... Remember that electronic email is about communication with other people. ...
