Usability analysis of instant messaging platforms in a mobile phone environment.

Description

M. Tech. Information Networks / The study was undertaken to better understand the vast number of limitations in the use of mobile devices such as screen size, navigation, colour and network limitations. The aim of this study is to identify usability problems within the user interface design of mobile device instant messaging applications. The usability of three mobile instant messaging applications (MXit, Nimbuzz and Whatsapp) will be evaluated on three different high end touch screen smart phones (Apple iPhone 4, BlackBerry Torch 9800 and Nokia N8)

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1. http://encore.tut.ac.za/iii/cpro/DigitalItemViewPage.external?sp=1001102

Tags

Cell phones.

Text messages (Cell phone systems)

Additional Fields

Identifer	oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:tut/oai:encore.tut.ac.za:d1001102
Date	January 2013
Creators	Minnie, Johannes Carel.
Source Sets	South African National ETD Portal
Language	English
Detected Language	English
Type	Text
Format	PDF