Identifying students usability needs in collaborative learning environments

Abstract

The aim of the paper is to consider the factors that may help in building userspsila acceptable collaborative learning environments. We examine the influence of individual learning styles on requirements concerning system interface, by experiments done on the group of Polish Computer Science students participating in the collaborative activities. We discuss the role of colors. By using data mining techniques, we find out the influence of dominant learning styles dimensions on color preferences. The experiments showed that the individual learning styles may decide on the usability needs of students collaborating online. It is noticed that students, with similar learning style dimensions have chosen, as preferable, the same layout colors.