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The appropriateness of Swedish municipality web site designs

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Jonas LundbergAuthors Info & Claims

NordiCHI '06: Proceedings of the 4th Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction: changing roles

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1182475.1182481

Published: 14 October 2006 Publication History

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In this paper, the results of a front-page genre analysis of 290 Swedish municipality Web sites are presented, and the appropriateness of the identified design solutions are discussed. Seven municipality Web site genres are identified: notice-board, newspaper, brochure, promotion, commercial, portal, and filter. We discuss how the municipality genres are related to each other, and to other genres, as mix-genres or subgenres. We conclude that the genres differ widely in terms of form, dominating content, action possibilities, purposes, and user groups and roles. This paper provides design examples of what qualities the different genres might bring, and thereby, gives an opportunity for designers and procurers to learn from previous designs. The paper contributes both by providing an analysis of a genre central to society, and by showing how a genre analysis reveals implicit values regarding the user and the task, mediated in the genres of municipality Web sites.

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Sandoval-Almazán RGil-Garcia JLuna-Reyes LChun SMoses JLuna-Reyes L(2010)Gobierno 2.0Proceedings of the 11th Annual International Digital Government Research Conference on Public Administration Online: Challenges and Opportunities10.5555/1809874.1809938(265-266)Online publication date: 17-May-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1809874.1809938
Arvola MLundberg JHolmlid SHvannberg ELárusdóttir MBlandford AGulliksen J(2010)Analysis of precedent designsProceedings of the 6th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Extending Boundaries10.1145/1868914.1868922(23-31)Online publication date: 16-Oct-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1868914.1868922

Index Terms

The appropriateness of Swedish municipality web site designs
1. Applied computing
  1. Document management and text processing
    1. Document preparation
      1. Multi / mixed media creation
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction paradigms
      1. Hypertext / hypermedia

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NordiCHI '06: Proceedings of the 4th Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction: changing roles

October 2006

517 pages

ISBN:1595933255

DOI:10.1145/1182475

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Anders Mørch
University of Oslo, Norway
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Konrad Morgan
University of Bergen, Norway
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Tone Bratteteig
University of Oslo, Norway
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Gautam Ghosh
Userminded, Norway
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Dag Svanaes
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

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Sandoval-Almazán RGil-Garcia JLuna-Reyes LChun SMoses JLuna-Reyes L(2010)Gobierno 2.0Proceedings of the 11th Annual International Digital Government Research Conference on Public Administration Online: Challenges and Opportunities10.5555/1809874.1809938(265-266)Online publication date: 17-May-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1809874.1809938
Arvola MLundberg JHolmlid SHvannberg ELárusdóttir MBlandford AGulliksen J(2010)Analysis of precedent designsProceedings of the 6th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Extending Boundaries10.1145/1868914.1868922(23-31)Online publication date: 16-Oct-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1868914.1868922

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