The Samaritans of Boston are an organization which provides anonymoustelephone council for suicidal individuals. The Samaritans organization have been seeking a way to expand their hot-line services from only a telephone hot-line to a service that would feature a computer instant messaging hot-line in addition to the telephone service. - The Samariteen IQP project aimed to build the tool that would provide hot-line functionality for instant messaging over the Internet. The project was generally a success, though not all of the desired features were implemented, the basic hot-line technology is functional.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Pennington, Elliot Sinclair

Subject

• Computing
• Health
• Well-Being
• Community

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-101709-195904

关键词

• Community engagement

Advisor

• Pollice, Gary F.

Year

• 2009

Date created

• 2009-10-17

地点

• Worcester

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright

最新修改

• 2021-02-02