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The Social Impact on Web Design in Online Social Communities

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Visioning and Engineering the Knowledge Society. A Web Science Perspective (WSKS 2009)

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Abstract

Social influence and behaviour of online communities and groups research had gained momentum with the popularity of web as a medium of social interactions. These studies on the other hand had focused on communication factors and had largely ignored the influence of social ties on user interface experience. Since user interface experience depends on user interface design, social influence on quality design would be valuable information in enhancing user quality experience in information technology. Taking into consideration that past studies had examined the impacts of culture and social separately, this research intends to interpret the effects of social and cultural influence on web design. With results from observation of sample blogs show that there are indications of social influence on web design, further exploration into the issue will benefit future research in information systems.

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  1. Brunel Business School, Brunel University, UK

    Maimunah Ali & Habin Lee

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  1. Open Research Society, NGO, and American College of Greece, Gerakas Attikis, Greece

    Miltiadis D. Lytras

  2. Dipartemento Tecnologie dell’Informazione, Universitá degli Studi di Milano, Via Bramante 65, 26013, Crema, Italy

    Ernesto Damiani

  3. College of Information Sciences and Technology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA

    John M. Carroll

  4. College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA

    Robert D. Tennyson

  5. ESSEC Business School, Cergy Pontoise Cedex, France

    David Avison

  6. KMR group at NADA/KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), Lindstedtsv. 5, 100 44, Stockholm, Sweden

    Ambjörn Naeve

  7. Creatifica Associates, Chelveston, Wellingborough, UK

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  8. University of Tampere, Finland

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  9. School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Private Bag 92006, 1020, Auckland, New Zealand

    Felix Tan

  10. School of Business, Villanova University, Villanova, PA, USA

    Janice Sipior

  11. European Research Center for Information Systems, University of Münster, Leonardo Campus 3, 48149, Münster, Germany

    Gottfried Vossen

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Ali, M., Lee, H. (2009). The Social Impact on Web Design in Online Social Communities. In: Lytras, M.D., et al. Visioning and Engineering the Knowledge Society. A Web Science Perspective. WSKS 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5736. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04754-1_22

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