What's up with WhatsApp? Comparing mobile instant messaging behaviors with traditional SMS

MobileHCI 2013 - Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 352-361

  Church, Karen ^a   De Oliveira, Rodrigo ^a  

^a TELEFONICA RESEARCH   (Spain)

Author keywords

interview; mobile instant messaging; short message service; sms; survey; text messaging; user study; whatsapp

Indexed keywords

INSTANT MESSAGING; INTERVIEW; SHORT MESSAGE SERVICES; SMS; USER STUDY; WHATSAPP;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MOBILE DEVICES; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SURVEYING; SURVEYS; TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; TEXT MESSAGING; WORLD WIDE WEB;

MESSAGE PASSING;

EID: 84883666434     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2493190.2493225     Document Type: Conference Paper

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