Investigating factors influencing the perception of creativity in web design

In many disciplines, creativity has been recognised as an important part of problem solving. In business, creativity enables the generation of better solutions and provides an opportunity to gain a competitive advantage. In Information Systems (IS) creativity assists developers in finding solutions to difficult problems by helping to efficiently utilise available resources and allows the more effective planning and running of complex projects. One of the most important aspects of IS development is Requirements Engineering (RE), the development activity aimed at understanding the needs and wants of IS customers. While previous RE researchers suggested that creativity is crucial in building high quality information systems, fostering creative outcomes in RE is difficult as it is affected by the multifaceted socioorganisational context within which IS development commonly takes place. This paper reports findings from an empirical study into creativity in RE. Specifically, it reports various contextual factors which were found to influence the creativity of individuals and their teams.

Can web design methodologies (actually) help practitioners?

There exist many web design methodologies and the new ones are constantly being added to the pool of those offered to practitioners. However as previous research shows, practitioners either do not know, do not use or even do not care for these development approaches. This paper examines web design practice, and the design of visual aspects in particular, in order to establish whether any of the existing methodologies would actually address the practitioners concerns. Through grounded theory analysis, it transpires that from amongst several examined approaches, IS-based web design methods are dealing with great many practical issues which designers perceive as most pressing.

An analysis on human personality and hotel web design : a Kohonen network approach

Having an eye catching and attractive website could help hotels to compete in the vigorous online market. This study attempts to examine the relationship between human personality and the web design preferences. Kohonen Networks were adopted to cluster people with similar personality characteristics and identify their differences on web design preferences. Empirical results indicated people with similar personality traits have similar design preferences. For example, to attract those who got high scores in agreeableness, conscientiousness and openness but low score in neuroticism, a web page should start with a language selection page with introductory movie, one large image on the web page showing hotel interior design with hotel guest in the photo, and with background music.

Personality differences and hotel web design study using targeted positive and negative association rule mining

As people have unique tastes, the way to satisfy a small group of targeted customers or to be generic to meet most people's preference has been a traditional question to many fashion designers and website developers. This study examined the relationship between individuals' personality differences and their web design preferences. Each individual's personality is represented by a combination of five traits, and 15 website design-related features are considered to test the users' preference. We introduced a data mining technique called targeted positive and negative association rule mining to analyze a dataset containing the survey results collected from undergraduate students. The results of this study not only suggest the importance of providing specific designs to attract individual customers, but also provide valuable input on the Big Five personality traits in their entirety.

Evaluating the Quality of Student Web Design Projects

Иван Шотлеков, Асен Рахнев - В настоящата работа се представя набор от критерии за оценяване на качеството на студентски проекти за уеб дизайн. Критериите са подходящи за разработване, самооценяване, колегиално оценяване и оценка на уеб сайтове, проектирани от студенти. Тази оценъчна скала е апробирана по време на курс “Английски език в информационните технологии”, проведен със студенти от първи курс по информатика във Факултета по математика и информатика на Пловдивски университет “Паисий Хилендарски”. Тя помага на студентите при разработването на мултидисциплинарен проект за уеб дизайн да придобият не само технически умения, свързани с проектирането на качествени уеб сайтове, но и някои процесуални умения, които ще им бъдат необходими в реалната практика.

Cross-cultural web user interface design for Indigenous internet users

This project investigated 1) Australian web designers’ cultural perceptions towards Australian Indigenous users and 2) Australian Indigenous cultural features in terms of user interface design. In doing so, it reviews the literature of cross-cultural user interface design by focusing on feasible models and arguments to articulate and integrate Australian Indigenous Internet users’ cultural needs of web user interface. The online survey results collected from 101 Indigenous users and 126 Web designers showed a distinctive difference between them on the integration of Indigenous users' cultural in Web sites. The interview data collected from 14 Indigenous users and 14 web designers suggested practical approaches to the design implications of Indigenous culture.

Design de interação na web

O seguinte relatório foi elaborado durante o estágio curricular na empresa Terra Design, e decorreu desde o dia 6 de Janeiro de 2014 até 23 de Março de 2014, com uma extensão de quatrocentas e cinco horas, permitindo o desenvolvimento de projectos em diversas áreas do design gráfico. Durante este estágio, foi desenvolvido um trabalho para a empresa Lisbon Rooms, que consistiu no desenvolvimento de um website para uma residência de estudantes, que no verão funciona como hostel. Este projecto enquadra-se na área de web design com uma ema análise teórica sobre design de interação que será a matéria de estudo neste relatório de estágio. Este trabalho divide-se em três módulos: introdução à prática do estádio, enquadramento teórico e desenvolvimento prático do projecto. No primeiro módulo, é descrita a estrutura do estágio curricular na empresa, os objectivos do mesmo, metodologias e integração na equipa. No segundo módulo encontra-se todo o estudo referente às emoções, experiência do utilizador (UX) e web. Por fim, no capítulo do desenvolvimento prático da dissertação, é apresentado o projeto realizado no estágio. Tendo como base o enquadramento teórico realizado pós estágio, sobre a usabilidade, experiência do utilizador e design de interação, é feita uma análise do trabalho prático e justificação, ou crítica, dos elementos nele contidos. Foi dado particular ênfase ao desenvolvimento do interface.

Towards tacit knowledge sharing over social web tools

Purpose - Researchers debate whether tacit knowledge sharing through Information Technology (IT) is actually possible. However, with the advent of social web tools, it has been argued that most shortcomings of tacit knowledge sharing are likely to disappear. This paper has two purposes: firstly, to demonstrate the existing debates in the literature regarding tacit knowledge sharing using IT, and secondly, to identify key research gaps that lay the foundations for future research into tacit knowledge sharing using social web. Design/methodology/approach - This paper reviews current literature on IT-mediated tacit knowledge sharing and opens a discussion on tacit knowledge sharing through the use of social web. Findings - First, the existing schools of thoughts in regards to IT ability for tacit knowledge sharing are introduced. Next, difficulties of sharing tacit knowledge through the use of IT are discussed. Then, potentials and pitfalls of social web tools are presented. Finally, the paper concludes that whilst there are significant theoretical arguments supporting that the social web facilitates tacit knowledge sharing there is a lack of empirical evidence to support these arguments and further work is required. Research limitations/implications - The limitations of the review includes: covering only papers that were published in English, issues of access to full texts of some resources, possibility of missing some resources due to search strings used or limited coverage of databases searched. Originality/value - The paper contributes to the fast growing literature on the intersection of KM and IT particularly by focusing on tacit knowledge sharing in social media space. The paper highlights the need for further studies in this area by discussing the current situation in the literature and disclosing the emerging questions and gaps for future studies.

Culturally inclusive design in a multicultural society

Multiculturalism in design advocates that people's belief and cultures should be placed at the centre of design processes and designers should be capable of addressing cultural diversity in multiple ways of thinking. However, contemporary design discourses seem not to be philosophically inclusive and practically applicable in mulriculmral contexts. This paper theoretically reviews three predominant metaphysical conceptual thinking frameworks: Dualism, Monism and Holism in many multicultural societies and argue a possibility of the culturally inclusive design.

Web professionals : how do they experience information literacy?

This phenomenographic research investigated variation in web professionals' understanding of information literacy. The outcome is of value for the education of practitioners both in the areas of information literacy, and web design and development. Analysis of 23 in-depth interviews with web workers from different stages of web design and development process revealed that they experience information literacy as staying informed, building a successful website, solving a problem or participating in a community of practice. The present research advances the existing understanding of the concept of information literacy, especially in an occupational context. Additionally, using the web professionals' world as the context of the study, the research also contributes to the field of website design and development by shedding light on less-researched experiences of people involved in this industry.

Desarrollo de una aplicación web de localización en las facultades de la UPV/EHU

En este Proyecto de Fin de Carrera se ha creado la aplicación web FindPlace, así como su web de administración FindPlaceAdmin. La finalidad de FindPlace es poner a disposición del usuario la información sobre las ubicaciones (laboratorios, aulas, despachos, etc.) y detalles acerca del personal de cualquier facultad asociada a la UPV/EHU. FindPlace ha sido implementada con un Responsive Web Design, lo cual permite que la página web se visualice adecuadamente independientemente del dispositivo en el que se represente. Para la consecución de este proyecto se ha seguido una metodología ágil que ha permitido que la idea inicial haya ido evolucionando y adaptándose a las nuevas necesidades surgidas a lo largo del desarrollo.

一种基于SSL／TLS的Web安全代理的设计与实现

SSL Web代理能有效保护Internet上数据传输和存有敏感信息的Web服务器的安全。但是SSL协议中大量的数据处理带来的性能瓶须和协议实现中受到的安全威胁将严亚影响SSL Web代理的效用。该文在分析SSL/TLS协议性能和安全的基础上，设计并实现了一种高效的、安全的SSL-TLS Web代理。

一种Web应用服务器集群管理系统的设计与实现

随着计算机的普及和网络技术的发展，Internet上的Web用户爆炸性增长。作为Web应用主要支撑平台的Web应用服务器经常面临过载的问题。Web应用服务器集群技术是解决这一问题的有效手段。然而，集群规模变大导致的集群拓扑结构复杂、计算环境的高度异构以及应用对性能等非功能需求的多样化使得Web应用服务器集群的安装、配置和维护等管理过程难度大大增加。Web应用服务器集群迫切需要改变目前静态、被动的管理方式，而通过自管理方式来降低其管理成本、适应计算环境变化以及应用的个性化非功能需求。 Web应用服务器集群管理主要包括拓扑结构、资源以及负载等方面的管理。本文设计了一个Web应用服务器集群管理系统。针对集群拓扑结构管理，设计了基于广播的集群节点自配置设施，并通过基于Cookie Insertion的请求会话粘滞设计实现了多个负载均衡器的协同工作；针对集群资源管理，设计了基于Java规则引擎的动态资源管理框架，并在此基础上实现了集群规模的动态调整；针对集群负载管理，设计了基于反馈-控制机制的动态负载均衡算法，可根据节点负载动态调整权值，使集群能够适应负载变化。 基于上述设计，本论文在Web应用服务器系统OnceAS中实现了该集群管理系统，包括支持多种通信模式的集群通信组件，拓扑结构管理器，资源管理器，负载均衡器，以及节点管理器，同时提供了相应的管理工具。系统测试结果表明，该系统支持集群拓扑结构、资源和负载的管理，能够更好地适应负载变化，提高Web应用服务器的整体性能表现。