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Design Requirements of Usability and Aesthetics for e-Learning Purposes

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This paper presents principal design requirements, in terms of usability and aesthetics, for e-learning purposes. Usability and aesthetic attributes applicable for standalone materials as well as e-learning applications are identified, based on research of existing literature and experience. Design requirements are then defined from logically coherent groups of these attributes, namely: legibility, design consistency, visual presentation, content arrangement and content adjustment. Specified requirements are further discussed according to their role in e-learning, application and frequent mistakes based on experience.

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    Aneta Bartuskova & Ondrej Krejcar

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  3. Faculty of Engineering, Department of Computer Engineering, King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL), Bangkok, Thailand

    Suphamit Chittayasothorn

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Bartuskova, A., Krejcar, O. (2014). Design Requirements of Usability and Aesthetics for e-Learning Purposes. In: Sobecki, J., Boonjing, V., Chittayasothorn, S. (eds) Advanced Approaches to Intelligent Information and Database Systems. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 551. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05503-9_23

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