What's up with whatsapp?: comparing mobile instant messaging behaviors with traditional SMS

By Karen Church, Rodrigo de Oliveira. International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, 2013

741 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Sociology and Political Science, Human-Computer Interaction

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/8799c6d17524ebedfaecde035df8d5f9631a0a34

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In Sociology and Political Science

1. Karen Church
2. C. Montag
3. Rodrigo de Oliveira

In Human-Computer Interaction

1. Karen Church
2. Albrecht Schmidt
3. Niels Henze
4. Rodrigo de Oliveira

Citations in the corpus

• WhatsApp Goes to School: Mobile Instant Messaging between Teachers and Students (2014, background): “As of today, it seems that WhatsApp has advantages over other technological tools employed by the education system, such as low cost, simplicity, accessibility, efficiency, and natural language (Church & De Oliveira, 2013).”
• Smartphone usage in the 21st century: who is active on WhatsApp? (2015, positive): “Recent studies yielded the first evidence that What-sApp usage might have an addictive character [9] and of course WhatsApp represents an important communication alternative to classic short message services, which often incur costs (SMS; [10]).”
• Large-scale assessment of mobile notifications (2014, background): “Consequently, users report about being annoyed when receiving too many notifications on their phones [3].”
• An in-situ study of mobile phone notifications (2014, background): “Specifically we found 3 predominant sources for this pressure, all of which are in line with [7].”