A Study of Energy Education Websites Frame Color and Backgroud Color
| Autor: | Shih, Yen-Chou, 施彥舟 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 102 In recent years, as energy issues receive more and more attention,various energy education websites have also gradually increased in number. Foreign energy education websites use multiple colors, such as orange,yellow, red and black, while domestic ones mainly use blue and green and thus, in comparison, are more monotonous in color and less original. In view of the foregoing, this study chooses college students as study subjects to explore the influence of website background colors and frame colors on visual fatigue, learning effectiveness, learning motivation and website rating when users use energy education websites so as to provide a reference standard in designing energy education-related websites for website designers in the future. The study is divided into three stages of experiments. In the first-stage experiments, we investigated 30 college students’ subjective preference of 18 website background colors and selected four background colors (purplish red, yellowish orange, blue and green)through SPSS luster analysis. In the second-stage experiments, we combined the four background colors (purplish red, yellowish orange, blue and green) selected in the first-stage experiments with two kinds of frame colors (separate or non-separated frame colors) to generate eight kinds of web pages for energy education website design, and then we conducted visual fatigue scales, cognitive tests on energy, and motivation scales on teaching materials. In the third-stage experiments, we carried out an overall evaluation on the results in the second stage and selected two background colors (purplish red and yellowish orange) and a kind of frame color (separate frame colors), together with the original energy education website, to investigate the learners’ rating in terms of substantive aspects and feeling aspects on these three kinds of web pages. The findings of the three stages of experiments in this study indicate the following: 1. College students’ learning effectiveness in energy knowledge for the energy education website with purplish red and yellowish orange as background colors is higher than that for the one with blue and green as background colors. 2. College students’ visual fatigue for the energy education website with separate frame colors is higher than that for the one with non-separated frame colors. 3. College students has better learning effectiveness in energy knowledge for the energy education website with purplish red and yellowish orange as background colors and with separate frame colors. 4. The energy education website with purplish red and yellowish orange as background colors and with separate frame colors receives a higher rating in terms of substantive aspects than the one with the colors of the original website. 5. The energy education website with purplish red as background color and with separate frame colors receives a higher rating in terms of feeling aspects than the ones with yellowish orange or with the colors of the original website. The findings of this study show that the learning effectiveness for the energy education website with purplish red and yellowish orange as background colors and with separate frame colors is not lower than that for the one with blue and green as background colors. In addition, the energy education website with purplish red and yellowish orange as background colors also receives a higher rating than the one with the colors of the original energy education website. Therefore, other colors like purplish red and yellowish orange may be considered to be used in the construction of an energy education website, which not only preserves the learners’ learning effectiveness for the energy education website but also allows the website to be distinguished from other energy education websites due to the difference in color, thereby attracting more learners to navigate and use the website. |
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