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Barreda, Davila Albert. "Website Interactivity as a Branding Tool for Hotel Websites." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2014. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/6245.
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The dissertation explored the relationships among Website interactivity, brand knowledge, consumer-based brand equity and behavioral intentions in the context of hotel Websites. Based on an in-depth literature review, a theory-driven model was proposed and ten hypotheses were developed. The dissertation employed an empirical study based on a survey design, and collected data via a marketing company. Respondents who booked a hotel room online using hotel branded Websites in the last 12 months were approached to complete the online questionnaire. Four hundred ninety six (496) respondents completed the online questionnaire by answering to questions related to their last hotel booking experience.
Analysis was conducted in two phases: (1) Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) and (2) Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). The overall fit of the CFA model and the final SEM model were acceptable, indicating an adequate fit to the data. The results suggested that the two dimensions of Website interactivity, namely system interactivity and social interactivity, positively impacted the components of brand knowledge, and that system interactivity had a stronger impact as compared to social interactivity. Although, social interactivity was not found to have a significant direct effect on brand awareness, the results showed that social interactivity had a significant impact on brand image. Furthermore, the relationship between brand equity and behavioral intentions was positive and significant. The empirical study offered theoretical for utilizing Website interactivity as a branding tool in the hotel context. Additionally, the results provide practical insights into branding strategies, Website development, and behavioral intentions enhancement. Very few studies have empirically examined and incorporated Website interactivity dimensions and brand knowledge with consumer-based brand equity and behavioral intentions.
This gap in the literature has been compounded by an absence of empirical studies on Website interactivity as a tool to develop brands and behavioral intentions in the context of hotel
Websites. The present dissertation closes this gap in the literature by reporting on a questionnaire of US adult travelers that offered data on those theoretical associations. Conceptually, the results support the influential impact of Website interactivity on brand elements and behavioral intentions.Ph.D.
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Zeljkovic, Nada. "To inform and engage: museum websites and dynamic delivery of information." Thesis, Curtin University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/143.
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The World Wide Web has emerged as a powerful communications medium. With the development of new technologies, organizational websites are getting bigger and more complex, using design elements such as sound and motion to engage users' attention. This project will look at how users respond to the ways designers and developers present information on the web in a dynamic form which incorporates sound and motion. The research will focus on evaluating the communicative effectiveness of websites (particularly websites with different degrees of dynamic content in them), and will see if certain ways of presenting dynamic content are more effective than others. The method used will consist of observing users while they try to accomplish specific tasks on selected websites, through interviews, questionnaires and through verbal protocol ('think aloud') analysis. Effectiveness will be measured by such things as how long it takes them to complete each task, how successful they were in finding the necessary information, and the ease of use. Other factors which provide possible explanations for differences in effectiveness will also be measured; these will be drawn from two theoretical bases: communication theory (Fiske, 1982) and social psychology (Ajzen, 1991; Klobas & Morrison, 1999). The outcome of the research will be identification of problem areas associated with the effectiveness of information delivery by dynamic sites. Guidelines for communication designers, information architects and developers of websites, as they evaluate the success of dynamic sites, will be an appendix to the research.
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Bambauer, Silke. "Websites als Qualitätssignal : eine empirische Analyse der Effekte augewählter Website-Elemente /." Aachen : Shaker, 2003. http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/37128113X.pdf.
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Zeljkovic, Nada. "To inform and engage : museum websites and dynamic delivery of information /." Curtin University of Technology, School of Design, 2002. http://espace.library.curtin.edu.au:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=14217.
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The World Wide Web has emerged as a powerful communications medium. With the development of new technologies, organizational websites are getting bigger and more complex, using design elements such as sound and motion to engage users' attention. This project will look at how users respond to the ways designers and developers present information on the web in a dynamic form which incorporates sound and motion. The research will focus on evaluating the communicative effectiveness of websites (particularly websites with different degrees of dynamic content in them), and will see if certain ways of presenting dynamic content are more effective than others. The method used will consist of observing users while they try to accomplish specific tasks on selected websites, through interviews, questionnaires and through verbal protocol ('think aloud') analysis. Effectiveness will be measured by such things as how long it takes them to complete each task, how successful they were in finding the necessary information, and the ease of use. Other factors which provide possible explanations for differences in effectiveness will also be measured; these will be drawn from two theoretical bases: communication theory (Fiske, 1982) and social psychology (Ajzen, 1991; Klobas & Morrison, 1999). The outcome of the research will be identification of problem areas associated with the effectiveness of information delivery by dynamic sites. Guidelines for communication designers, information architects and developers of websites, as they evaluate the success of dynamic sites, will be an appendix to the research.
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Ahmad, Khurram, and Muhammad Azeem. "Gold Standard Website." Thesis, Växjö University, School of Mathematics and Systems Engineering, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-5520.
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The aim of this thesis is to design a web base system which provides functionality of comparison between two java files on the basis of point-to information (P2I). User will upload Java files and analysis of Java files called point-to analysis (P2A). System will store the files in the file system for reference and download in later time. System will extract the information called P2I from P2A and it will store that information in the database.
Database should be flexible to accommodate the changes in P2A file and system should be able to extract the P2I and store it in database with minimum support of system administrator.
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Sklyarov, M. S. "Simple website development." Thesis, Сумський державний університет, 2014. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/34996.
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The history of web is not so long. It’s only 20 years old. By January 1993 there were fifty Web servers across the world, by October 1993 there were over five hundred. Beginning from 2002, new ideas for sharing and exchanging content such as blogs and RSS (Rich Site Summary), rapidly gained its popularity on the Web. This new model for information exchange is called Web 2.0. Instead of using static HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) pages, nowadays there are a lot of the websites where you can actually change the content by yourself without editing the HTML, for example facebook.com, twitter.com, vk.com and much more others.
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Wu, Yueh-Cheng. "Affective website design." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2007. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/832/.
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Although, today, website design still contains many variable design elements which strongly influence its design outcome, like browser usage, platforms, user preferences, window size, connection speed, computer speed, colour support, software support, and font support, the original design idea still plays an important role. Emotion is difficult to measure or evaluate. Designers need to understand its importance and how to measure emotion efficiently in order to undertake the subsequent design stage. Positive emotions are as important as negative ones-positive emotions are critical to learning, curiosity, and creative thought, and today research is turning toward this dimension (Norman, 2004b: 19). To understand users' negative emotions can supply a better solution for design problems. Both users' likes and dislikes are important when exploring the role of emotional design. The fieldwork consisted of two pilot tests (the initial pilot test-I. P. T. and the second pilot test-S. P. T. ), a website impression test (W. I. T. ), and an improved website impression test (I. W. I. T. ). The research methods involved Think-Aloud usability testing, Emotional Probes testing (EPs testing), and questionnaires. In addition, the evaluation method used a coding system and statistics. Triangulation was used in making consistent the process methods and evaluation methods. The research outcomes include a fashion website design reference model, an insurance website design reference model, and the website impression test system. Through conducting the fieldwork, the importance of emotional design can be identified in the website design field. The whole research process and research outcomes supply one solution for researchers and designers to predict users' emotions in design outcomes.
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Zamfir, Florin Laurentiu. "Website visualizer : a tool for the visual analysis of website usage." Master's thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/1897.
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Mestrado em Engenharia Electrónica, Telecomunicações e InformáticaOs sítios web estão incorporados em organizações para sustentar a missão das mesmas e para garantir uma difusão eficaz de informação num quadro de fluxo de trabalho eficiente. Neste contexto, os gestores de conteúdo e informação tem que monitorizar constantemente as necessidades inerentes à missão institucional e reflecti-las na estrutura, conteúdos e paradigmas de interacção das respectivas intranets e extranets. Esta tarefa de monitorização e análise não é de todo trivial, nem automática, sendo difícil garantir a sincronização dos sítios institucionais com as efectivas necessidades da sua missão em dado momento. O objectivo fundamental deste trabalho traduz-se nos exercícios de conceptualização, desenvolvimento e avaliação de uma aplicação capaz de relatar um cenário de análise e visualizar padrões de interacção em sitíos institucionais suportados em tecnologias web, que seja capaz de realçar as áreas mais críticas, com base na análise da estructura, conteúdo e hiperligações. Para este efeito, propôs-se um modelo conceptual e uma arquitectura, bem como um conjunto de métodos de visualização que facilitem essa análise. De forma a validar o modelo conceptual, a arquitectura, as estruturas de informação e os diversos métodos de visualização propostos, desenvolveu-se um protótipo que já comporta algumas fases de avaliação e aferição. Este protótipo pode ser considerado como uma plataforma de suporte à investigação capaz de integrar e testar esquemas específicos de visualização e procedimentos de correlação visual. Em suma, é parte integrante de um dos projectos de investigação da Universidade de Aveiro. Mais específicamente, este trabalho introduz uma arquitectura por camadas que suporta vistas multiplas sincronizadas, bem como novos metódos de visualização, inspecção e interacção. O prototipo integra estes metódos de visualização numa aplicação capaz de capturar, compilar e analizar informação relacionada com a estructura e conteúdo do sitío web, bem como padrões de utilização. O protótipo destina-se fundamentalmente a dar apoio a especialistas de usabilidade ou gestores de conteúdo na organização do espaço de informação de um sitío institucional. Contudo, não se destina a produzir directamente soluções para problemas de usabilidade encontrados, mas sim a ajudar a tomar decisões com base nos problemas de usabilidade diagnosticados, identificados e sinalizados durante o processo de análise. ABSTRACT: Websites are incorporated in organizations to support their mission and guarantee effective information delivery within an efficient information workflow framework. In this context, content managers have to constantly monitor the business needs and reflect them on the structure, contents and interaction paradigm of the institutional websites. This task is not trivial, nor automated, being difficult to guarantee that these websites are synchronized with the actual business requirements. The overall goal of this work is the conceptualization, development and evaluation of an application able to assist usability experts in the analysis and visualization of interaction patterns of organizational web based systems. It should be able to highlight the most critical website areas, based on the analysis of website structure, contents and interconnections. For this purpose, a conceptual model and architecture has been proposed, as well as a set of visualization methods designed to facilitate that analysis. In order to validate the proposed conceptual models, the architecture, information structures and several visualization methods, a prototype was developed, evaluated and refined. It can be considered as an experimental research platform, capable of integrating and testing specific visualization schemes and visual correlation procedures, and is part of an ongoing research program of University of Aveiro. Specifically, this work introduces a layered architecture that supports simultaneously synchronised multiple views, as well as novel visualization, inspection and interaction mechanisms. The prototype integrates these visualization methods in an application able to capture, compile and analyze the information related to the structure, contents and usage patterns of a website. This work is meant mainly to help usability experts or content managers to organize the informational space of an institutional web site. However, this application is not supposed to directly provide solutions for the usability problems of the site but to offer the means to help its users take decisions based on the interpretation of the usability problems identified and highlighted during the analysis process.
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Shan, Xiaoqiu. "Website about Chinese food : information design promoting culture identify by website /." Online version of thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/11632.
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Bambauer, Silke [Verfasser]. "Websites als Qualitätssignal : Eine empirische Analyse der Effekte ausgewählter Website-Elemente / Silke Bambauer." Aachen : Shaker, 2003. http://d-nb.info/1172615411/34.
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Stepanova, Larysa M. "Representation of National Identity on Ukrainian Business Websites: Analysis of the Website Genre." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1278448764.
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Chambers, Rickard. "Search engine strategies : a model to improve website visibility for SMME website /." Thesis, Click here for online access, 2005. http://dk.cput.ac.za/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1079&context=td_cput.
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Moore, Jeri L. "Developing a Campus Website." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1114092538.
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Tummeti, Venkata Krishna Reddy. "Website developer: Web application." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2003. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2407.
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The purpose of the project is to use Java Server Page (JSP) technology to create a web application that could be used by any person who has the basic knowledge of browsing through the Web. There are many programs on the market that aid users in creating web pages, but the process involved in creating web pages using the available software and hosting their website is fairly complex for general people.
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Baker, D. "Self-harm and suicide websites : a discourse analysis of the accounts of website users." Thesis, University of East London, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.532600.
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Our current understanding of self-harm and suicide websites is limited and few studies have attempted to explore this phenomenon. Despite this lack of knowledge, they have been heavily criticised in both the clinical literature and the wider media. They have been accused of being 'pro-suicide' and 'antipsychiatry' and some have argued that they 'encourage' suicide and should be banned. This study sets out to explore the perspective of people who use these websites. It is based on the transcripts of interviews with ten people, who were recruited directly from such sites and interviewed via e-mail. Discourse analysis indicated that the participants constructed self-harm and suicide as complex, multifaceted phenomena. The former was considered as principally a way of coping with painful and distressing experiences. The latter was described as an informed choice and a right. These constructions were used to contest the views of these behaviours that were deemed to be prevalent in wider society, namely that self-harm was a form of attention seeking and suicide was the product of mental illness. Participants drew on discourses of 'empathetic understanding', 'friendship', 'community' and 'recovery', when talking about self-harm and suicide websites. These constructed the sites as friendly, supportive communities, which play an important part in the recovery process. One possible function of the discourses is that they give website users access to positive and socially valued identities. They construct the sites as an alternative way of coping with life's difficulties; an alternative both to self-harm and to conventional medical and psychiatric services. The discourses also resist the dominant view of self-harm and suicide websites in the professional literature and the wider media. The latter offer negative constructions, which may serve to protect the status of those professions and to defend them against the idea that their interventions for self-harm and suicide are, for some at least, aversive and ineffective.
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Lyngarkos, Barbara. "Examination of the relative importance of website elements for users of manufacturers representative websites." Thesis, Northcentral University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3723180.
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The purpose of this quantitative non-experimental study was to extend and enhance the growing body of research related to electronic commerce by examining the relative importance of content, ease-of-use, promotion, made-for-the-medium, and emotion elements of manufacturer’s representatives’ websites from the perspectives of site users, and to determine if the relative importance of these website elements varies as a function of occupational category. As these things are currently unknown, manufacturer’s representatives do not currently understand how to apply these critical elements to create a successful web presence. In this study, participants consisted of 90 graduates from four year accredited programs having earned a degree related to the art or science of illumination with a minimum of 5 years involvement in the lighting industry. The mean for content (M = 38.34, SD = 13.45) and ease-of-use (M = 34.17, SD = 12.96) indicated they were the most important website elements. Substantially lower means were found for emotion (M = 7.23, SD = 6.30) and promotion (M = 7.40, SD = 6.55) as well as made for the medium (M = 12.86, SD = 8.48) indicating these website elements to be less important. The mean ratings for the five website elements as a function of occupational group indicate little variation between the occupational groups in terms of the relative importance of the five website elements. Content and Ease-of-use were rated as more important than Promotion, Made for the Medium, and Emotion for all five occupational groups. The findings of this research suggest future research is needed taking industry specific contexts into account. In order to accomplish this, future research could be performed on a larger scale, with multiple industries. As the Internet continues to evolve, more research will be needed to evaluate how new technologies will affect the design of websites, and the effect on website element importance. Future research could also examine the relationship of industry, income, age, gender, or other demographics to website element preference. Research relating to the application of existing theory in an electronic commerce context is also an area for future research.
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Ericsson, Tobias. "Front-end website performance optimisation : Optimising the front-end performance of Swedbank’s website." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för informationsteknologi, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-206840.
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The purpose of this study is to establish what techniques Swedbank can employ to improve the performance of their external website. Several optimisation techniques for improving front-end performance are presented from user experience and server load perspectives. The website is then evaluated based on the principles identified to determine if and how it can be improved, whereupon testing is employed to determine the benefits of implementing these techniques. The evaluation shows that the Swedbank website can be improved in several ways; the most important being to employ text file compression, caching headers and to combine images together. The report concludes that Swedbank should implement at least these three techniques as they are the most cost-effective from both a user experience and server load perspective.Syftet med denna rapport är att fastställa vilka tekniker Swedbank kan använda sig av för att förbättra prestandan på sin externa webbsida. Flera optimeringsåtgärder för förbättring av front-end-prestanda ur användarupplevelse- samt serverbelastningsperspektiv presenteras. Webbsidan utvärderas sedan utefter de presenterade principerna. För att vidare fastställa eventuella fördelar med implementering av teknikerna så utförs ett flertal tester. Utvärderingen visar att Swedbanks webbsida kan förbättras på flera sätt, varav de viktigaste är komprimering av textfiler, kombinering av bilder samt ”caching headers”. Rapporten drar slutsatsen att Swedbank bör implementera åtminstone de tre nämnda åtgärderna, då de är de mest kostnadseffektiva i förhållande till det mervärde som uppnås både från ett användarupplevelse- och serverbelastningsperspekt
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Burns-Johnson, Toshiba L. "Are Government Websites Achieving Universal Accessibility?: An Analysis of State Department of Health and Human Services’ Websites." Thesis, School of Information and Library Science, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1901/417.
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Research reports that the search for health information is the fourth most popular activity being done on the web (Pew Internet & American Life Project, 2004). However, for disabled persons, barriers experienced when interfacing with the Internet may cause healthcare websites to be inaccessible to them. This study explores the level of accessibility of healthcare websites and the relationship between accessibility and usability by determining how compliant state department of health and human services websites are with accessibility and usability guidelines. A content analysis of each state’s department of health and human services website was conducted. Results revealed that state department of health and human services websites are not very compliant with accessibility guidelines, are somewhat compliant with usability guidelines, and overall are not very accessible. The findings also indicate that there is a significant moderate relationship between accessibility and usability which suggests that the two concepts are interconnected.
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Mahmoud, Siham Mukhtar. "Evaluating and enhancing websites : a case study of an Eritrean state owned media website - shabait.com." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/49952.
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Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2004.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The Ministry of Information of Eritrea is basically aimed at providing the society with news, information, education and entertainment. In addition to its service presentation through radio, TV and printed press the Ministry of Information has taken the initiative to present its services in the digital way by publishing a website known as shabait.com. But as the technique is new to the country as well as to the organization, it is to be expected that there will be inaccuracies in the way the website was designed. Hence, evaluating and redesigning shabait.com with the goal of making it informative, attractive and easy to use will be very beneficial to the organization as well as to users of the website. This recently launched website is not very attractive and not successfully directed to its users. Therefore, the main aim of this study is to assess and find the best way of presenting information digitally to the Eritrean society, as well as to anyone interested in finding out about Eritrea through the State owned media website. This study was firstly approached by gathering previously written relevant information from books, journals, and the Internet. In addition to that interviews with concerned people in Eritrea were held to understand the aim, difficulties and challenges of the website. Subsequently the website was assessed according to the evaluation criteria developed, based on the literature review. The evaluation of the website assumed three different approaches of qualitative as well as quantitative types. A usability test with both quantitative and qualitative questions was done through a questionnaire, which was analyzed statistically. A competitive analysis, of qualitative type with two international websites was also made. In order to create a good quality website, it is essential to have clearly specified goals, policies and strategies, and adequate advanced human as well as technological resources, so that it will be easy to overcome the common challenges such as competition, diversity of users, budget constraints, and inadequacy of policy instruments. The findings of the evaluation of shabait.com indicate that the website is not attractive, is user unfriendly, of low content quality as well as with low download speed and, more importantly, was not advertised well. Therefore, shabait.com is not fit to be considered as a sole first hand information provider website for the Eritrean society as well as for anybody who is concerned about Eritrea. At the end of the study recommendations of how the website can be modified to be successful are listed.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die doelwit van die Ministerie van Inligting van Eritrea is om nuus, inligting, opvoeding en vermaak aan die gemeenskap te verskaf. Bykomend tot die radio, TV en die gedrukte media, het die Ministerie van Inligting nou ook besluit om 'n digitale diens te lewer deur middel van 'n webwerf bekend as shabait.com. Aangesien die betrokke tegnieke vir die land sowel as vir die organisasie iets nuuts is, kan daar verwag word dat die ontwerp van die webwerf onakkuraathede sal toon. Dus moet shabait.com evalueer en verbeter word om dit sodoende aantreklik en gebruikersvriendelik te maak; dit sal tot die voordeel strek van die organisasie so wel as die gebruikers. Hierdie jong webwerf is tans nie baie aantreklik of maklik om te gebruik nie. Dus is die doelwit van hierdie studie om die beste wyses te vind om die gemeenskap van Eritrea, sowel as ander belangstellendes, deur middel van 'n webwerf wat deur die staat beheer word, digitaal van inligting te bedien. Relevante geskrewe inligting is bekom deur middel van boeke, joernale en die Internet. Daar is ook onderhoude gevoer met mense betrokke by shabait.com om sodoende die doelwitte, probleme en uitdagings van die webwerf beter te verstaan. Daarna is die webwerf evalueer volgens ontwikkelde kriteria gebaseer op die literatuuroorsig. Vir die evaluasie is drie benaderings gebruik, beide kwalitatief en kwantitatief. 'n Bruikbaarheidstoets is deur middel van 'n vraelys gedoen met kwalitatiewe sowel as kwantitatiewe vrae en die antwoorde is statisties ontleed. Twee internasionale webwerwe is ook ontleed sodat hulle gehalte met dié van shabait.com vergelyk kon word. Om 'n webwerf van goeie gehalte te ontwerp, is dit noodsaaklik om duidelik omskrewe doelwitte, beleide en stategië, asook genoegsaam opgeleide mense en gevorderde tegnologiese hulpbronne te hê sodat die uitdagings soos kompetisie, verskeidenheid van gebruikers, begrotingsbeperkings en swak beleidsinstrumente oorkom kan word. Die bevindinge van die evaluasie van shabait.com toon dat die webwerf onaantreklik en gebruikersonvriendelik is, die inhoud is van swak gehalte, die aflaai spoed is laag en en die werf is nie goed adverteer nie. Daarom is die werf nie geskik om beskou te word as die enigste eerstehandse inligtingsverskaffer webwerf vir die gemeenskap van Eritrea sowel as ander belangstellendes nie. Aan die einde van die studie is daar aanbevelings vir die verbetering van die webwerf.
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Jeon, Myunghee. "Impact of perceived website service quality on customer e-loyalty on a lodging website." [Ames, Iowa : Iowa State University], 2009. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3389106.
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Sundman, Jan. "Website Globalization in Monetary Gaming." Thesis, Uppsala University, Department of Information Technology, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-98278.
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To be able to reach new audiences and to be able to target new markets, companiesnowadays find great need for localizing content of their online gaming sites. Thisreport highlights the different pitfalls and best practices that need to be consideredwhile targeting an online gaming site towards international customers. These bestpractices have been extracted from contemporary literature and reports and havethen been used to evaluate the work of a company providing an online gaming site.This evaluation has only taken into account the work done by the teams developingthe site, thus no managerial and marketing staff have been approached. The evaluationof the company globalization work has shown that their main problems lie in theprocesses and communication surrounding this kind of work. Many of the pitfalls thatthe company have fallen into may very well be removed by deciding on neededartifacts, processes, and software solutions that could remedy these problems. Suchsoftware could be for example translation memory software that may aid translatorsin their day to day work, providing more consistent translations to the site.
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Lafleur, Mary-Lou Terry. ""Spirit Camp" : indigenous website preferences." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/31733.
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The Internet has become an important medium for disseminating information about archaeology to the public. Research by archaeologists on how they can use the Internet is in its infancy. This thesis examines an Indigenous group's perspectives on the delivery of archaeological content through websites. The Spirit Camp archaeological site is located in Stó:lo Territory in the Fraser Valley, British Columbia. The Spirit Camp website project was created to explore the Stó:lo people's preference regarding graphic design and interactivity in two otherwise identical websites. Understanding Indigenous perspectives is essential for collaborative projects and is beneficial to both archaeology and Indigenous communities if done with respect and trust, as this can lead to a better understanding of history. This thesis discusses and analyzes feedback obtained from the Stó:lo about the two Spirit Camp websites and the dissemination of knowledge about their ancestors via the Internet. The more graphical website guides the viewer with a storybook-like interface while the other website allows readers to view material in plain text with a standard menu and scrollbar. Feedback from 24 participants was collected through an individual survey questionnaire, and three age-based focus groups: youths, adults, and Elders. This research shows that enhanced graphic design and increased levels of interactivity in websites do influence website preference. Elders telling stories, colour, photos, games, music and moving objects are examples cited by Stó:lo members as additions to future websites which enhance their experience. All the male participants preferred the more graphic website, while women's preferences were 53% in favour of the more graphical website. Data from the focus groups demonstrates that viewers' opinions vary by gender and age. This research informs us how to effectively work with and respect Indigenous peoples. It does so by suggesting the use of culturally sensitive methods, such as interviews and focus groups, to acquire Indigenous perspectives on the presentation and dissemination of archaeological information.Arts, Faculty of
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Lowes, Natalie. "Barksolot : a dog training website /." Barksolot website, 2007. http://www.barksolot.com/.
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Mejia, Zaida J. "Alumnae/i database and website." Thesis, Mills College, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1559518.
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Because data on alumnae/i is difficult to collect and change over time, obtaining up-to-date information on graduates — for the purposes of highlighting their professional achievements and facilitating networking — is a challenge faced by many higher education institutions. Social networks provide a means for alumnae/i to share successes, but viewing this information typically involves an account or a paid subscription. In this project, I address these issues by designing and implementing a free, easy-to-use, and updateable Mills Computer Science alumnae/i website backed by a database. The website has the potential to showcase the most recent or impressive alumnae/i achievements and prominently feature all graduates' accomplishments via their profiles. Additionally the database can store manually provided alumnae/i information and extract further data from LinkedIn. Evaluations of the project indicate that users and administrators find the website easy to search, navigate, and update and the information provided helpful. Because of its versatile design, this project could serve similar needs for other disciplines and institutions.
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Cernelev, O. V. "Public engagement with nutrition website." Thesis, Sumy State University, 2016. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/45009.
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Aim: This study is focused on evaluation of the impact of the website in the field of nutrition on the population’s engagement. Objective: To assess the level of public engagement with nutrition website in the field of nutrition.
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Meiers, Esther. "Eine interaktive Website für Kinderbibliotheken." [S.l. : s.n.], 2004. http://www.bsz-bw.de/cgi-bin/xvms.cgi?SWB11675713.
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McVicker, Scott. "Barbi Breen-Gurley dressage website /." Click here to view, 2009. http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/artsp/11/.
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Ehlers, Charlotte. "HauteSpot Networks Corporation website redesign." Click here to view, 2009. http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/artsp/34/.
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Thesis (B.F.A.)--California Polytechnic State University, 2009.Project advisor: Tera Galanti. Title from PDF title page; viewed on Feb. 4, 2010. Includes bibliographical references. Also available on microfiche.
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Guldager, Nikolai. "Usability evaluation of Beebyte’s website." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Handelshögskolan (from 2013), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-74203.
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For companies operating on the web, a high usability on their website are of outmost importance for customers to keep using their services. Over the years many usability principles and methods have been developed to help companies to achieve a high usability on their systems. This thesis aims to help Beebyte identify usability problems on their website, find out how users perceive its usability, and then come up with recommendations on how to improve it. To do this a heuristic evaluation and a user test were conducted. Each user test session was accompanied by a questionnaire and a post-test interview. The result presents several of usability problems found by the heuristic evaluation and the user tests, and a summary of the post-test interviews and questionnaires. The sources of the problems are then analysed, and recommendations are presented based on established usability principles, my own experience in the area and the test participants opinions from the post-test interviews. The questionnaire answers are discussed and analysed to get a better idea on how they rank the website from a usability perspective.
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Manuel, Sue. "Strategic management and development of UK university library websites." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2012. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/10958.
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This research assessed website management and development practices across the United Kingdom university library sector. As a starting point, the design and features of this group of websites was recorded against criteria drawn from the extant literature. This activity established core content and features of UK library websites as: a search box or link for searching the library catalogue, electronic resources or website; a navigation column on the left and breadcrumb trail to aid information location and website orientation; homepage design was repeated on library website sub-pages; university brand elements appeared in the banner; and a contact us link was provided for communication with library personnel. Library websites conformed to 14 of the 20 homepage usability guidelines examined indicating that web managers were taking steps to ensure that users were well served by their websites. Areas for improvement included better navigation support (sitemap/index), greater adoption of new technologies and more interactive features. Website management and development practices were established through national survey and in-depth case studies. These illustrated the adoption of a team approach to website management and development; formal website policy and strategy were not routinely created; library web personnel and their ability to build effective links with colleagues at the institution made a valuable contribution to the success of a library website; corporate services and institutional practices played an important part in library website development; library staff were actively engaged in consultations with their website audience; and a user focused approach to website development prevailed. User studies and metric data were considered in the website evaluation and development process. However, there were some issues with both data streams and interpreting metric data to inform website development. Evaluation and development activities were not always possible due to staff/time shortages, technical constraints, corporate website templates, and, to a lesser extent, lack of finance.
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Mota, Molikuoa Adolphine. "Managing stakeholders involvement in website communication: a comparative study of Lesotho and South African national websites." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/3529.
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Engagement of stakeholders in government website communication has emerged as an important strategy that can build trust, improve transparency and strengthen loyalty between governments and their citizens. This is because websites provide access to a broader spectrum, offer unlimited storage of information and rapid feedback. This main purpose of the study therefore was to find out how the Lesotho and South African national governments utilise their websites to engage stakeholder’s in websites communication for maintaining and building mutual relationships. The literature review for this study covered the role of public relations in government, different kinds of governments’ stakeholders and the importance of engaging stakeholders in website communication for relationship building and maintenance of such relationships. The methodology that was employed involved analysis of twenty websites which were selected using purposive sampling technique. Coding sheets were designed and used to collect data based on the three principles of dialogic communication namely: Ease of interface, Generation of return visits, Usefulness of information and the two models of communication which are One-way communication and Two-way communication. The results revealed limited efforts for stakeholder’s engagement in both Lesotho and South African government ministries and made recommendations on how this challenge can be addressed. The study concluded that the two countries can improve stakeholders’ participation and engagement in websites communication by aligning their websites with the three principles of dialogic communication and two models of communication.
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Alvares, Andre Ianni. "Processos de construção de websites institucionais : estudo de caso da reconstrução do website da Parmalat Brasil." [s.n.], 2001. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/284250.
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Orientador: Gilberto dos Santos PradoDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes
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Resumo: Websites institucionais apresentam-se como uma excelente oportunidade para empresas criarem um novo canal de contato e relacionamento com seus consumidores,clientes e usuários. O presente trabalho busca uma reflexão sobre alguns dos principais procedimentos para a utilização eficiente deste novo meio e processos para construção de relacionamentos virtuais entre a empresa e seus consumidores,a partir de um estudo de caso específico,a reconstrução do website da Parmalat brasileira. Através do registro e análise do processo de reconstrução, este trabalho procura também pesquisar as principais questões sobre o papel do designer e a necessária base de conhecimentos aplicada ao trabalho com novas mídias, em especial, a Internet
Abstract: Corporate websites are an excellent opportunity for companies to establish new relationship ways along with its consumers, customers and users. The present work intends to set a reflection on some of the most efficient proceedings concerning this new media, and the constructive steps towards the virtual relationship between the company and its consumers, starting from a specific case of study: the rebuilding of the brazilian Parmalat's website. By keeping track and analyzing the rebuilding process, this work also seeks to research the main issues concerning the role of the designer and the necessary background applied to the work with new medias, specifically the Internet
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Santos, Filipa R. Bolota Velho Dinis dos. "Relatório de estágio." Master's thesis, Universidade da Beira Interior, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.6/1318.
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Descrevemos, no presente relatório, o percurso realizado ao longo de três meses de estágio que decorreu numa empresa de turismo com sede na Covilhã (Turistrela).
O produto final nunca é um facto isolado, mas um somatório de vários factores que para ele contribuem. Neste contexto, embora o resultado global, em termos objectivos, tenha sido a realização do Website Polistrade, muito aconteceu, até à construção do mesmo.
Foi uma tarefa que implicou investigação, planificação e reflexão diária
Centrámos a nossa investigação em aspectos específicos da temática de design de websites como os de usabilidade, navegabilidade e ergonomia. No âmbito do equilíbrio desejável entre o design gráfico e a usabilidade, desenvolvemos conceitos como interfaces e arquitectura da informação.
Tendo como suporte a investigação referida descrevemos depois detalhadamente, as etapas que permitiram a concretização do objectivo do estágio.We describe in this report, the course held over three months of training that took place in a tourism company located in Covilhã (Turistrela). The final product is never an isolated event, but a combination of different factors that contribute to it. In this context, although the overall result, in objective terms, has been the realization of the Website Polistrade much happened until the construction of it. It was a task that involved research, planning and daily reflection. We have focused our research on specific aspects of the theme of website design such as usability, navigation and ergonomics. Under the desired balance between graphic design and usability, we developed concepts like interfaces and information architecture. Backed by the research that we describe later in detail, the steps that led to the achievement of the objective of the internship.
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Ribeiro, Antonio Carlos Chaves. "\"Elaboração e análise do uso de um website de apoio à disciplina de laboratório de química analítica quantitativa\"." Universidade de São Paulo, 2006. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/75/75132/tde-17012007-140704/.
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Embora seja considerável a quantidade de materiais educacionais disponíveis na Internet, poucos são os estudos reportados na literatura que tratam de investigar a efetividade dos mesmos como ferramenta de ensino. Neste trabalho descrevemos a elaboração, uso e avaliação de um sítio produzido como material de apoio para a disciplina de Química Analítica. As facilidades disponíveis no sítio são: páginas de conteúdo com descrições textuais dos tópicos discutidos na disciplina, hiperlinks para sítio da Web que oferecem conteúdo relevante ao curso, um fórum eletrônico que permite aos estudantes postarem questões e aos instrutores responde-las, um glossário, uma sala de bate-papo e uma ferramenta para escrita e envio de relatórios. Participaram, voluntariamente, como sujeitos da pesquisa dois professores de química, um estagiário do Programa de Aperfeiçoamento de Ensino da Universidade de São Paulo e 32 alunos de graduação em química. A navegação de cada um deles no sítio foi monitorada. Dados foram também coletados a partir da realização de entrevistas semi-estruturadas com os professores e da aplicação de questionários aos alunos. Durante o semestre em que foi utilizado pelos alunos da disciplina de Química Analítica, o sítio foi acessado 560 vezes. O sítio foi usado, principalmente, para a escrita e envio de relatório e para consulta às páginas de conteúdo. Poucos alunos fizeram uso do fórum para entrar em contato com os instrutores ou para apresentar questionamentos. O uso que os estudantes fizeram do sítio sugere que são capazes de utilizar o material suplementar para sanar dúvidas sobre conteúdos específicos. As entrevistas com os professores mostraram que nenhum deles havia utilizado anteriormente a Web como ferramenta de apoio na disciplina de Química Analítica. Os questionários aplicados aos estudantes apontaram para a percepção de que o acesso a materiais educacionais disponibilizados via Web é útil e pode contribuir para o aprendizado dos mesmos.Despite the proliferation of educational material on the Internet, few published studies document the strengths and weaknesses of using the World Wide Web as a teaching tool. This work describes the design, use, and evaluation of a site created as a supplement to the Analytical Chemistry course. The site included the following elements: content pages with textual descriptions of the concepts discussed, hyperlinks to Web that provide information about topics in chemistry that are relevant to the course, an eletronic forum that enables students to pose questions and instructors to answer them, glossary, a chatroom and a tool for writing and sending reports. The results presented here will allow us to determine how best to develop other WWW resources and how best to utilize the site discussed here. The research population consisted of two chemistry professors, one teaching assistant and 32 undergraduate chemistry students who voluntarily participated in this research. All navigation for each subject was recorded. Research tools also included semi-structured personal interviews with faculty and teaching assistant, and a student´s survey. During the semester of use, the site was accessed 560 times. The site was mainly used for writing and sending reports and reading content pages. Only a few students used the forum to contact instructors and ask them questions. The analysis of student use of the site suggests that they are able to identify the areas that cause them trouble and are able to use supplemental resources to help them in those areas. Interviews with professors indicated that none of them had used the Web as support to the teaching in the Analytical Chemistry course. Analyzing the student\'s survey, we found that they noted that access to Web-based learning materials was valuable and contributed to their learning as well.
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Solebello, Nicholas Paul. "Explaining the Gender Gap in Capital-Enhancing Website Use: The Effect of Male-Oriented Website Content." NCSU, 2009. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-11062009-105454/.
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The Internet has grown rapidly over the past two decades and researchers continue to discuss the potential benefits of Internet use depending on how an individual utilizes it. Researchers argue that a large part of the advantages from Internet use stem from visiting capital-enhancing websites that provide individuals with educational, financial, occupational or networking opportunities that help cultivate human, cultural, and social capital. Despite these prospective benefits, previous literature finds that women lag behind men in overall frequency and variety of capital-enhancing website use. This article extends the literature on capital-enhancing website use by testing two possible explanations for why the gender gap exists: 1) the unequal division of household labor, and 2) non-capital-enhancing website content geared towards men. The findings from an analysis of General Social Survey (GSS) data from 2000-2004 indicate that the gendered content of Internet websites may play a large role in determining women and menâs capital-enhancing website use. I conclude with a discussion of the implications for gender inequality in the digital age.
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"Evaluation of four ecommerce websites for specific website design features." Thesis, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/3890.
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Many companies involved in the seed industry have launched ecommerce ventures, these include amongst others, Starke Ayres, Johnny's Selected and Opposition 1. Amazon.com is the undisputed leader in ecommerce retailing. There are various website design features that are available that can be used to enhance the users online experience; however the implementation of these features are inconsistent across ecommerce websites. The websites of Starke Ayres, Johnny's Selected, Opposition 1 and Amazon.com were evaluated against a list of website design features (best practices model) that would enhance the user's online experience when interacting with the website. The best practices model was setup considering the user enhancing website features that would satisfy the website functional requirements of Content, Communication, Commerce and Community, as well as user enhancement through the use of navigation features. The cluster analysis was conducted to establish the relatedness of the four websites for the implementation of the website design features identified in the best practices model. It was found that the websites used a varying number of website design features that would enhance the user's online experience. Also, none of the sites satisfied the best practices model completely, thus there is room for improvement even for Amazon.com. It was recommended that Starke Ayres and Opposition 1 commence the improvement of the website with the implementation of the low cost features which are relatively easy to implement as these would significantly improve the website without the requirement of large amount of capital. Significant investment of capital will however be required to improve the website so that it is at the cutting edge of website design. The website needs to be developed into a cutting edge website in the industry so that the company can develop its ecommerce venture into a strong competitive advantage.Thesis (MBA) University of Natal, Durban, 2003.
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潘玉鈴. "Decision Making Model for Websites Evaluation-A Study of Travel Website." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/05629179928156747139.
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碩士東海大學
工業工程與經營資訊學系
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Internet marketing is being fast developed with the prevailing of internet, but domestic website evaluation activities mostly emphasize homepage design and content quality at present (Hsi-Peng Lu, 2000). The study will build the evaluation structure of information content from the perspective of the internet marketing. We expect to pay administrators and experts to assess websites by different angles. In addition, we try to integrate the evaluation structure into design of website evaluation decision-making model, and expect to help administrators and experts to assess website more efficiently. The research develops hierarchical structure of website evaluation by relevant literature review including websites evaluation, internet marketing, Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). An AHP questionnaires survey was conducted and the weights of each evaluation criterion were obtained. Then we build a website evaluation system, and choose travel website as verification of our model. Three major travel websites-ezTravel, ezfly, startravel were selected to be the object of evaluation, and make analysis and discussion to the result. By literature review,“product”,“price”,“promote”,“place” and “Customer’s relation”(namely 4P + 1C) are the main information content themes. The weight of each group are 13%, 42%, 21%, 9% and 15% for the importance of a travel website. These groups could be further divided into 15 criteria items and 56 concrete criteria. Then we use website evaluation system to assess travel websites, and analyze the performance of each website in 4P +1C criteria groups. The research result provide specific criteria for website design and developing, and make administrator effectively assess website’s performance in internet marketing, and then is regarded as improved reference further.
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Li, Sheng-Hann, and 李昇翰. "The Effect of Auditory Feedback on Websites Users’ Perception of Website Usability." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/03817909789133152180.
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工業工程與工程管理學系
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Often, the only feedback that the user receives in websites is visual feedback. In comparison with visual feedback, for which there have been many empirical studies, exploration of sound has been slower, but the use of sound in websites is becoming increasingly popular due to the potential benefits it offers, and there is a great deal of general literature on how to design auditory feedback. However, scant specific guidance is available on the relationship between auditory feedback and situation. When providing unnecessary feedback, auditory feedback becomes noise that distracts the user from the task. Thus, the major purpose of this study was to investigate the role of situation in auditory feedback. In this investigation, we designed a website named UN.com that has three scenes and added different numbers of auditory feedback types. The independent variable was the different numbers of auditory feedback types. The dependent variable was the degree of helpfulness and annoyance. All of the earcons and auditory icons followed appropriate guidelines. A two-phase experiment was designed to explore the application of auditory feedback. In the first phase, the better situation in which to use auditory feedback was determined. In the second phase, a redesigned website was verified. The questionnaire consisted of three sections, the first intended to elicit demographic information from the respondents. The second section asked respondents to rate their accepted degree of auditory feedback. In the last section, we modified the system usability scale (SUS) for suitable auditory feedback to focus on the usability of auditory feedback. We found a significant correlation between auditory feedback and website usability. Some auditory feedback emerging more frequently may have a negative effect. For example, the slip sound could be annoying when the number of occurrence exceed five times. In the last phase of the experiment, we achieved the best score in SUS. The present study enhances previous studies’ finding by providing a much more detailed examination of auditory feedback. The results may provide web designers with guidelines for auditory feedback to prevent negative effects.
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HSU, HUNG YUNG, and 許鴻勇. "Research the acceptance of novels website service charges – the website of Chinese novels website as a case." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/63528217226024169576.
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國際企業學系
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As the trend of Web 2.0, almost all the websites are upgrade for Web 2.0; emphasize website and the user's interaction. And novel websites can as the innovator of Web 2.0, novel zone of discussion at early BBS age, the contents of website are built by users paste some essays or relay of article. This research’s contents are discussing with motivation of internet usage and the use behavior of novel website, and the relation about the use behavior of network and Internet addiction disorder, (IAD) , then discussing with the relation Internet addiction disorder, and the will to paying, and the relation with the behavior of paying. This research dispatches the questionnaires in the network, then proceed with quantize research. The questionnaire is through questionnaire website, and dispatches the invitations of fill the questionnaire in some main Traditional Chinese novel zone of discussion of website, in one month period, then get 184 questionnaires, there are 181 valid questionnaires. They are analyzed by SPSS, proceed with FREQ and ANOVA. As the analysis we can discover, 1. Most of the users of novel websites are male user, and there are many students among them. User's age is between 15-28 years old mostly. 2. Internet addiction disorder, (IAD) is influenced by the use behavior of network and the use behavior of novel website, but it is not influenced by the motivation of Internet usages. 3. Internet addiction disorder degree is not influence there is will to paying or not, but the will to paying will influence the behavior of paying. As can control petty money higher, then essence the behavior of paying will be lower, this research infer that should high income persons request higher quality. In managing meaning, I put forward the following four points, 1. Assign all markets and focus on specific users, strengthen the fictitious community's function, improve the interaction of websites, increase points (virtual currency) circulation and value, then improve the will to paying. 2. Develop webpage and service of the interface of different platforms; then attract the heavy user, to increase the flow of webpage and enrich the content. 3. Offer the webpage service of customization, improve service quality, and then improve that request high-quality users’ will to paying and behaviors of paying. 4. Publish more electronic publications for download, combine the system of paying, change charging way and system, and then improve the will to paying. Key word: The motivation of Internet usage; The use behavior of novel website; The use behavior of network; Internet addiction disorder, (IAD); The will to paying
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Fu, Zhichun. "English learning website." Thesis, 2003. http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/2350/1/MQ83900.pdf.
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This report presents a case study of implementing an English Learning Website (ELW) using Servlet and JSP technologies. English Learning Website is a web application that runs on Tomcat web server. It provides with international students whose mother language is not English a friendly online environment in learning English vocabulary and increasing reading ability. The system administrator can update data from the database directly. The system consists of eight functions: Vocabulary Level Testing, Vocabulary Studying, Lesson Testing, Reading, Online Dictionary, User Comments, Update Vocabulary Database, and Update Article Database. A two-level index structure is designed for the vocabulary database. A two-level searching algorithm is developed for this structure in order to achieve fast searching in large database and multi-user environment.
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Rodríguez, David Alejandro Vega, and 魏維德. "Rental Room Website." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/39104025023492314804.
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碩士國立政治大學
國際經營管理英語碩士學位學程(IMBA)
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Taking into consideration the existing financial crisis in Spain and the opportunity it carries for real estate agents and rooms/apartments owners to rent out their properties, roomsDB.net propose to launch a new room rental website to take advantage of the current niche existing in Madrid, Spain. The management team have direct knowledge of developing and running a successful room rental website in Singapore with six years of experience. In the big market of real estate we determined that the best option for us in Madrid is non-luxury apartments/rooms. We are confident that we are not going to find fierce competition in the medium-term and we will take advantage of this to become the leaders in this segment of the market. Moreover, some of the current competitors do not have the option for agents to post their offers in their websites and we do will offer this service. The website will be different from competitors in customer oriented service, user friendly platform, immediate response to enquiries as well as achieving a lower cost base. The promoters plan to raise an initial €60,000 to launch the website with a forecast of obtaining the 25% of the market share in the industry in Madrid. Based on case scenarios forecast, the website is forecast to generate cash from the first year of operation and the business will be also cash generative from the same year. The attached case scenario forecasts show a rapid growth and producing attractive returns. By year five, the return on investment is 55 per cent.
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Santos, Marisa Alexandra Monteiro dos. "Conceção e implementação de um website para um centro hospitalar." Master's thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.8/2548.
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Ao longo dos anos a utilização da Internet foi crescendo a um grande ritmo dando
origem a um aumento exponencial de informação e de serviços. Hoje em dia recorremos à
Internet para desempenhar múltiplas funções que vão desde a procura de informação, à
comunicação, ou para assistimos a conteúdos televisivos. Atualmente a maioria das
instituições, organizações e empresas possuem uma presença na Internet através de
websites, facto este que se tornou um requisito obrigatório. As instituições hospitalares
também sentiram a necessidade de terem um website para publicitarem e divulgarem os
seus serviços de forma a permitirem que as pessoas tomem melhores decisões
relativamente à sua saúde e à dos seus familiares.
O website proposto neste projeto pretendeu ser uma evolução do website
disponibilizado pelo Centro Hospitalar Médio Tejo (CHMT) respondendo a questões
tecnológicas atuais, nomeadamente as relacionadas com o acesso mobile, a questões de
acessibilidade e a questões de design. Neste projeto são apresentados e discutidos os
resultados do processo de conceção e desenvolvimento do website que foi suportado pela
metodologia Extreme Programming (XP). O processo de avaliação e de validação do
website permitiu comprovar a utilidade, usabilidade e acessibilidade do website
desenvolvido para o CHMT.
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Wang, Dong-Yan, and 王東彥. "To Analyze the Influence of Website Design Elements on Website Performance." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/7k55gv.
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碩士國立臺北科技大學
商業自動化與管理研究所
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With the rapid development of Internet, the future will be more towards the whole world of a global village, and the website platform is the most important key that a company wishes to connect to the world. Found in the literature, previous studies mentioned in web site design, web interface and so on, and not completely research for the site design elements. Therefore, this study through literatures and expert interviews selected the more important elements of site design. Through experimental design, the reaserch selected the four key elements of site design, the two groups (High, Low) of 16 combinations, and used to Google Website Optimizer to analyze the experiment. The research visited 14 web design information services industry experienced experts, to clarify the importance of site development web site design elements. In the experimental stage a total of 412 subjects, data suggestions website elements, the overall performance of the most important is the "movie" elements, followed by hyperlinks, logo, and images. The results show that the overall portfolio performance of the combination of the best logo, video and hyperlinks and other elements which are set to High, the image combination of elements set to Low, a total of 76.9% and 47.9% conversion rate of improvement.
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Chen, Mei Chen, and 陳美岑. "Purchase Involvement, Website Feature and Website Loyalty: A Relationship Bond Perspective." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/973b4n.
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碩士長庚大學
工商管理學系
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Relationship marketing is one of latest marketing thoughts that are held by many firms to react to the changes in customer behavior in recent years. The application of relationship bonds has become one of major marketing strategies in many firms. Customer relationship strength is an important influence factor of customer relationship management. There is not much research that has addressed the relation between relationship bonds and website loyalty. The study presented a model to explore the relation. The results of the present study show that, using the customers of the online shopping platform industry in Taiwan as the source of data collection. website feature and purchase involvement is affected by website loyalty directly. The indirect effects imply that relationship bonds between website feature, purchase involvement and website loyalty. We used SPSS 18.0 to test our proposed hypothesis based on 306 collected through Web and paper survey. Results were noted as follows: i.Website design, transaction security, purchase involvement, relationship bonds affect website loyalty significantly. ii.Relationship bonds affect website loyalty significantly. iii.Relationship bonds acts as a mediator in the relationship between website design, transaction security, purchase involvement and website loyalty.
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Li, Song-Wang, and 李松旺. "Analysis of Pet Website Content: A Case Study of Local Website." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/89581717423939778516.
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碩士國立勤益科技大學
企業管理系
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Due to the blooming of Internet, pet-related industry has the trend to integrate with e-commerce. For industry, website had become important media to approach customers; for customer, it’s major source of information. Participator of pet website should pay more attention to preferred content of users, further to approach need of customer closely. However, there is little works to discuss with what kinds of content pet website can provide for users. Object of this research is to explore the issue in practice. Our research induces content of pet website by means of website review. Four pet websites of Taiwan and five pet websites of the US are selected to be objective of review from search engine of Yahoo! and Google. Sixteen content types of selected pet website are refined in aspect of Animal Companion Lifecycle and Consumer Behavior Framework and main features of general website. Web browsing behavior and clickstream analysis is further applied to discuss the focused content of user with a case study of local pet website. Results of analysis reveal that content types of News are most popular item on case website. But it is not easy to attract visitors to process in-depth navigation on the website. Results of research are offered to pet website mangers for reference of constructing or adjusting content.
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LIN, SHAN-JU, and 林珊如. "The Study of Website Quality, Perceived Value and Use Intention of Travel Websites." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/3kn973.
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碩士輔仁大學
國際經營管理碩士學位學程
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In the increasingly fierce competitive environment, how to attract consumers to use travel websites by providing excellent website services quality is an important issue for website providers. Therefore, this study focuses on investigating whether travel website design quality will directly influence consumer perceived value and whether consumer perceived value will directly affect use intention of the travel websites. With 327 responses from different travel websites users (95% of response rate), the study found that system quality and information quality have significant influence on consumer’s perceived value while consumer’s perceived value has significant influence on use intention of travel websites. At the end of the research, theoretical implications and managerial implications were also discussed.
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Wu, Chia-Jung, and 巫佳蓉. "Influence of Website Design on Consumers' Emotion and Purchase Intention in Travel Websites." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/7jy5vv.
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碩士中原大學
國際經營與貿易研究所
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This work presents the results of three studies that investigated the influence of website design on consumers’ emotions and purchase intention for travel websites using a stimulus–organism–response framework. The first two studies addressed how the website’s background color and picture layout can influence consumers’ emotions and purchase intention, whereas the third study investigated the influence of the size and quantity of pictures on consumer’s emotion and purchase intention. The results of these experiments demonstrated that consumer’s emotion and purchase intentions are more positive with regard to buying online from travel websites that are designed with warm colors, and whose layouts feature such as left-hand side images and right-hand side text as well as a few large pictures. These results suggested that sellers and managers should improve the design of travel websites to stimulate consumer’s emotions and purchase intentions.
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Tang, Li-Ju, and 唐麗如. "Interactive function designs in bank website : multi case study of internal bank websites." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/04498701952224190996.
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碩士國立臺灣大學
圖書資訊學研究所
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A bank’s website is an important virtual channel for the bank to interact with its customers. A good design of website’s interactive functions enables the bank to keep their customers, to create more profits and marketing opportunities, and to provide the bank’s website with a competitive edge. So far, no studies on the design of interactive functions of bank websites have been done, and the interactive functions of current domestic bank websites still leave much to be desired and more to be delved into. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the design of interactive functions of bank websites. The study begins with collection and analysis of related domestic and overseas literature on website interactivity and designs of websites’ interactive functions. The compilation of the literature is presented as an Evaluation Table on Website Interactivity (see Appendix Two). It then selects several domestic benchmark bank websites as the targets for multi-case studies. Based on the Evaluation Table on Website Interactivity, the study carries out a profound analysis of four cases of bank websites and integrates the evaluation into Results of Functional Evaluation on Website Interactivity for Banks of Selected Cases (see Appendix Three). This study adopts a multi-case design, which falls in exploration-based case studies. It collects data and observes records by actually operating the interactive functions of the website of selected banks. Developing case descriptions is used as the strategy for data analysis. Both case analysis and multi-case comparison are applied to draw an in-depth description and pros and cons analysis, and to compare the websites across the selected banks. Lastly, guidelines and advice on the design of interactive functions of bank websites are proposed according to the results of the study. The results of the study show that websites of selected banks have the same strengths and weakness in terms of the design of interactive functions, which are: marketing, transaction service, communication and feedbacks, value-added entertainment, and personalization. The websites of selected banks place more emphasis on interactive functions for “marketing,” “transaction service,” “communication and feedbacks” but less emphasis on those for “value-added entertainment” and “personalization.” As the score sheet (with a full score being 232) of the Results of Functional Evaluation on Website Interactivity for Banks of Selected Cases shows, the websites of selected banks which have the best design are presented orderly as follows: Chinatrust Commercial Bank (with its score totaling 178), Jih Sun Bank (with its score totaling 162), Cathay United Bank (with its score totaling 159) and Taipei Fubon Bank (with its score totaling 137). The results for evaluations on interactive functions in all categories consistently show that the interactive functions of the websites of selected banks leave much room for improvement in that they do not conform to the principles for design. Through the outcomes of an empirical study, this study generalizes principles for the design of interactive functions for internet banks and internet ATM transaction service and principles for the design of features which should be added. It also removes evaluation principles which are not suitable for interactive functions of bank websites and propose a guideline for the design of interactive functions of bank websites (see Appendix Four) to serve as a reference index for banks to use while constructing website interactive functions. It takes a further step in sorting out the categorizations in terms of degree of importance, dividing the principles for the design of interactive functions of bank websites into three categories, namely: required principles, advantageous principles and additional principles. Banks are suggested to take the required principles as the basic, necessary principles in the designing of interactive functions of their websites. They are also suggested to provide the advantageous principles which give them competitive edge to increase the assets of their websites. As for the additional principles which are optional, it is up for banks to choose whether to provide or not based on the goals of their websites. Finally, this study suggests a direction for further studies, which is to investigate the degree of satisfaction clients hold toward using the interactive functions of bank websites. Besides, in terms of targets of studies, it is suggested that the number of websites investigated be increased and that overseas websites be included as targets of studies, so as to compare the difference between domestic and overseas bank websites in terms of their design of interactive functions.
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Su, Ying-Ya, and 蘇盈雅. "Usability analysis of website with unconventional layout.A Case in the Design Company Websites." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/83512589298105847353.
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碩士中原大學
商業設計研究所
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It is a vision that internet bandwidth will continue to expand and there is more and more interactive multimedia being applied to websites. However, a lot of research on web design has been conducted, yet there is no new research on the technique and usability of innovative websites. When users browse a website, they may feel frustrated with the complicated content and structure. Therefore, it is a challenge to create an innovative website with fine usability. This proposal will not only analyze the technique of the new innovative website, but also focus on the usability. The proposal is as follows: (1) Catalogue the technique from the new innovative website. (2) Explore the usability issues of innovative websites from different technique. (3) Analyze the usability of innovative websites from different experience with different backgrounds. In this study, through Literature Survey Method and Personal Interview to explore found this study obtained through interviews with experts in the performance of innovative web techniques can be divided into (1) Map-based Navigation (2) Interactive Gaming (3) Dynamic Menu-based (4) Virtual Reality (5) Visual Context-based and innovation through the website in different experiments using the technique of expression issues for the Map-based Navigation is easy to get lost in the hierarchical structure in the lead,Interactive Gaming-type interface configuration prone to problems, Dynamic Menu-based interactive and low affinity slightly less than , Virtual Reality-based Web site prone to hierarchical structure and interface configuration problems, Visual Context-based architecture is easy with the level of the problem and found different backgrounds, different experiences in the use of spending time with the error rate on the resulting differences and usability problems, based on the results of this study, make recommendations for innovative Web site, summarized innovation should pay attention to related sites, simplicity, tips, uniformity and other conclusions, providing future web designers working in industries where such information will be of value to them.
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Tu, Yu-Ting, and 涂瑜庭. "A Study of the Relationships among Website Service Quality and Website Purchase Intention: Website Trust as a Moderating Variable." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/927zyp.
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碩士長榮大學
高階管理碩士在職專班(EMBA)
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The main purpose of this study was to examine the relationships among website service quality, website trust, and website purchase intention. Therefore, this study selected research subjects from national universities students in Tainan. 400 portions of questionnaires were delivered（264 valid portions recycled, with a recycle rate of 71.75%）. Meanwhile, our research method adopted the descriptive statistics analysis, factor analysis, reliability analysis, validity analysis and regression analysis to test our hypotheses. The main conclusions gained from empirical research were: The results of this study were following: 1.Website service quality had significantly positive influence on website purchase intention. 2.The moderating effect of website trust will strengthen the relationship between assurance and website purchase intention. 3.The moderating effect of website trust will strengthen the relationship between empathy and website purchase intention. 4.The moderating effect of website trust will strengthen the relationship between responsiveness and website purchase intention.