Research Article

A Systematic Evaluation of Mobile Applications for Instant Messaging on iOS Devices

Table 2

Results of Heuristic Evaluation on applications.

AppMobile usability heuristics results
ABCDEFGHTotal

WhatsApp Messenger0.080.280.920.670.130.421.580.004.08
HushHushApp0.920.610.671.000.231.170.500.395.48
Hiapp Messenger0.001.171.671.420.700.501.250.897.59
Surespot2.542.171.750.581.031.500.500.6110.69
Kik Messenger2.631.612.081.171.331.251.671.0012.74
Touch0.002.001.671.921.072.083.170.8912.79
Hike Messenger1.002.391.752.081.570.672.331.4413.23

Mean1.021.461.501.260.871.081.570.759.51