An extension of the 7C to completely address characteristics of Web 2.0 applications, including the original 7 design elements plus Collaboration.
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Capturing Online Collaboration in the Design Elements Model for Web 2.0 and Beyond
T. Andrew Yang (University of Houston-Clear Lake, USA), Dan J. Kim (University of Houston-Clear Lake, USA), Tri Vu (University of Houston-Clear Lake, USA), and Vishal Dhalwani (University of Houston-Clear Lake, USA)
Copyright: © 2010
|Pages: 15
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-384-5.ch036
Abstract
When analyzing the design elements of Web 1.0 applications, Rayport and Jaworski’s 7C Framework (2001) is a model commonly used by researchers. With the advancement of the Web into the Web 2.0 generation, the 7C Framework is insufficient in addressing a critical feature ubiquitously present in Web 2.0 applications, that is, collaboration. In our previous work, we had extended the 7C Framework into the 8C Framework by incorporating the collaboration element in order to capture the collaboration element in Web 2.0 applications (Yang, Kim, Dhalwani, & Vu, 2008). In this chapter, we present the 8C framework as a reference model for analyzing collaborative Web 2.0 applications, including online social networking Web sites and online collaborative sites such as Wikipedia.