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Evaluation Framework for User Preference Research Implemented as Web Application

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This article presents an evaluation framework for user preference research. Web application was implemented to verify this framework. Interrelated influence of three main aspects of the website - usability, aesthetics and information part - is demonstrated in a performed experiment. Surprisingly, the perception of aesthetics was most significantly influenced by the quality of two remaining factors. The original hypothesis was, that the quality of aesthetics will influence the perception of usability and information part. The article also features a parallel comparison approach, which allows within-subject design and two-way performed manipulation of variables.

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  1. Faculty of Informatics and Management, Department of Information Technologies, University of Hradec Kralove, Rokitanskeho 62, Hradec Kralove, 500 03, Czech Republic

    Aneta Bartuskova & Ondrej Krejcar

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  1. Computer and Information Technology Department, University of Craiova, Bvd. Decebal 107, 200440, Craiova, Romania

    Costin Bǎdicǎ

  2. Institute of Informatics, Wrocław University of Technology, Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27, 50-370, Wrocław, Poland

    Ngoc Thanh Nguyen

  3. Computer and Information Technology Department, University of Craiova, Bvd. Decebal 107, 200440, Craiova, Romania

    Marius Brezovan

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Bartuskova, A., Krejcar, O. (2013). Evaluation Framework for User Preference Research Implemented as Web Application. In: Bǎdicǎ, C., Nguyen, N.T., Brezovan, M. (eds) Computational Collective Intelligence. Technologies and Applications. ICCCI 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8083. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40495-5_54

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