Styling Influence to the Loyalty for Knowledge Sharing on WikID
WikID is a wiki for industrial design engineers. An
important aspect for the viability of a wiki is the loyalty of the user
community to share their information and knowledge by adding this
knowledge to the wiki. For the initiators of a wiki it is therefore
important to use every aspect to stimulate the user community to
actively participate. In this study the focus is on the styling of the
website. The central question is: How could the WikID website be
visually designed to achieve a user experience which will incite the
user to actively participate in the WikID community? After a
literature study on the influencing factors of a website, a new
interface has been designed by applying the rules found, in order to
expand this website-s active user community. An online
questionnaire regarding the old or the new website gave insights in
the opinions of users. As expected, the new website was rated more
positively than the old website. However, the differences are limited.
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emotion and color preference, Part two: Color emotions for two-color
combinations-, Color Research and Application, Vol. 29, Issue 4, pp.
292-298.
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[1] Wikipedia (2009), retrieved from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki at
June 2009.
[2] Giles, J. 2005, -Internet encyclopedias go head to head-. Nature, vol.
438, pp. 900-901.
[3] Vroom, R.W., Herkel, C. ten, Blomaard, S. 2005. Structure and
Grouping of Product Domains for Organizing Design Engineering
Knowledge", Proceedings of the CAID 2005, Delft, The Netherlands.
[4] Vroom, R.W., R. Pape and E. van Vulpen. 2006. Design Engineering
Information Search through Design Aspects Tree, Proc. of the 5th
Conference on Advanced Engineering Design AED 2006, June 2006,
Prague, Czech Republic.
[5] Vroom R.W., Joris vanÔÇÿt Ende, Raymond Jelierse, Alex Olieman, and A.
Kooijman. 2009, Creating A Community Base For WikID; An Industrial
Design Engineering Wiki, in: Proceedings of 8th European Academy Of
Design Conference - April 2009, Aberdeen, Scotland
[6] Kim, J., Lee, J., Choi, D., 2003, ÔÇÿDesigning emotionally evocative
homepages: an empirical study of the quantitative relations between
design factors and emotional dimensions-, International Journal of
Human-Computer Studies, vol. 59, pp. 899-940.
[7] De Wulf, K., Schillewaert, N., Muylle, S., Rangarajan, D., 2005, ÔÇÿThe
Role of Pleasure in Website Success-, Information & Management, Vol.
43, Issue 4, pp. 434-446.
[8] Zhang, P., Von Dran, G.M., 2000, ÔÇÿSatisfiers and dissatisfiers: A twofactor
model for website design and evaluation-, Journal of the American
Society for Information Science, Vol. 51, Issue 14, pp. 1253-68.
[9] Tzvetanova, S., Tang, M.X. (2005) "Affect Assessment in Educational
System Using
[10] OutSite Factors." Workshop on Motivation and Affect in Educational
Software In the 12th
[11] Tzvetanova, S., Xi Tang, M., Justice, L., ÔÇÿDesign of emotional web
interfaces using in-site factors-, Proceedings of the Design & Emotion
conference 2006, pp. 27-29, Goteborg 2006.
[12] Lindgaard, G., Fernandes, G., Dudek, C., Brown, J., ÔÇÿAttention web
designers: You have 50 milleseconds to make a good first impression!-,
Behaviour & Information Technology, vol. 25, pp. 115-126.
[13] Hunt, B., Readability - making pages easy to read by design, At
http://webdesignfromscratch.com/readability.php, accessed 16 /3/2009.
[14] DPI, 2005-2009, available from http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/DPI,
accessed 16 march 2009.
[15] Wilson, RF., 2001, ÔÇÿHTML E-Mail: Text Font Readability Study-, Web
Marketing Today [online], March 2001, issue 97, Available from
http://www.wilsonweb.com/wmt6/issue97.htm, accessed 16 march 2009
[16] Hunt, B., Using visual tonal contrast in web design, Available from
http://webdesignfromscratch.com/contrast.php, accessed 16/3/ 2009.
[17] Chaparro,B., Baker, J.R., Shaikh, A.D., Hull, S.& Brady, L., 2004,
ÔÇÿReading Online Text: A Comparison of Four White Space Layouts-,
Usability News [online], July 2004, Vol. 6 Issue , Available from
http://psychology.wichita.edu/surl/usabilitynews/62, accessed 16/3/2009
[18] Ou, L.C., Luo, M.R., Woodcock, A., Wright, A., 2004, ÔÇÿA study of color
emotion and color preference, Part one: Color emotions for single
colors-, Color Research and Application, Vol. 29, Issue 3, pp. 232-240.
[19] Ou, L.C., Luo, M.R., Woodcock, A., Wright, A., 2004, ÔÇÿA study of color
emotion and color preference, Part two: Color emotions for two-color
combinations-, Color Research and Application, Vol. 29, Issue 4, pp.
292-298.
[20] Hill, A. (supervised by Scharff, L.V.), 1997. ÔÇÿReadability of screen
displays with various foreground/background color combinations, font
styles, and font types-, Proceedings of the Eleventh National Conference
on Undergraduate Research, Vol II, 742-746
[21] Maes, F., Ummelen, N., Hoeken, H., 1996, ÔÇÿInstructieve Teksten:
Analyse, ontwerp en evaluatie-, Coutinho, Bussum.
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important aspect for the viability of a wiki is the loyalty of the user
community to share their information and knowledge by adding this
knowledge to the wiki. For the initiators of a wiki it is therefore
important to use every aspect to stimulate the user community to
actively participate. In this study the focus is on the styling of the
website. The central question is: How could the WikID website be
visually designed to achieve a user experience which will incite the
user to actively participate in the WikID community? After a
literature study on the influencing factors of a website, a new
interface has been designed by applying the rules found, in order to
expand this website-s active user community. An online
questionnaire regarding the old or the new website gave insights in
the opinions of users. As expected, the new website was rated more
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