The following sources provided foundational research and theoretical framework for the development of The Eoni Archives. Each entry includes both the full citation and annotations explaining their relevance to the project's themes of digital interaction, user experience, and technological storytelling.
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Ahmad, J., Hardianti, Nilwana, A., Muliani, & Hamid, H. (2021). Digitalization Era: Website Based E-Government.
IOP Conference Series. Earth and Environmental Science, 717(1), 12047-.
https://doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/717/1/012047
Good source for discussing the issues surrounding past govt. website use. It includes how past sites were ineffective, not transparent, and confusing to users and how that overall impacts the perception of the government. In-depth and methodical approach gives a good starting point for a potential story thread.
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Holliman, G., & Rowley, J. (2014). Business to business digital content marketing: marketers' perceptions of best practice.
Journal of Research in Interactive Marketing, 8(4), 269–293.
https://doi.org/10.1108/JRIM-02-2014-0013
Business to Business research and explanation of the websites that allow for some speculation on the merging of businesses in order to create the conservation program that users live in in the present. Sets the historical precedent that businesses work together on advertising, marketing, and web development to achieve results that they desire. Very in-depth on the goals, processes, and overall desired effect of the advertising/marketing portion of a business's online presence.
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New York Web Design Company, Avatar, Lists 10 Website Features that Improve User Retention. (2017). In PR Newswire. PR Newswire Association LLC.
A brief publishing on common advice of what would be considered the past to the characters, though not full research, a good testament of what appears to have been common knowledge at the time. Good as a basis on how to improve upon the current web model to make a more futuristic one.
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Hall, R. H., & Hanna, P. (2004). The impact of web page text-background colour combinations on readability, retention, aesthetics and behavioural intention.
Behaviour & Information Technology, 23(3), 183–195.
https://doi.org/10.1080/01449290410001669932
Research on consumer behavior as a result of web page layout and how likely users are to purchase based on website's accessibility text-wise. A good source to assert that accessibility does impact user behavior, and how that accessibility could be used to feed into a different system in order to retain users and ensure they feel more connected to the system.
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Palmer, Z. B., Oswal, S. K., & Koris, R. (2021). Reimagining Business Planning, Accessibility, and Web Design Instruction: A Stacked Interdisciplinary Collaboration Across National Boundaries.
Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 51(4), 429–467.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0047281620966990
Good international overview of how collaboration on creating sites that are both accessible and unique to each region is a challenge, the requirements for collaboration within groups in order to ensure a usable result in both regions, and how interdisciplinary collaborations can be difficult due to differences in style and operation.
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Bai, L., Arif, M., & Muhammad Arif. (2022). Artistic Design Method of User Interaction Experience of Mobile System Based on Context Awareness.
Security and Communication Networks, 2022, 1–10.
https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/6107046
Long research article highlighting the specifics of social media layouts, their effectiveness with users, and evaluating the effectiveness of the platforms in key areas. A good paper to look at as an in-story citation of effective marketing and highlights the significance of social media layout as a means of retention and effectiveness in consumer engagement. (Potential commentary on predatory habits of sites feeding off one another's weaknesses is also available.)
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Ligaraba, N., Chuchu, T., & Nyagadza, B. (2023). Opt-in e-mail marketing influence on consumer behaviour: A Stimuli–Organism–Response (S–O–R) theory perspective.
Cogent Business & Management, 10(1), 1–17.
https://doi.org/10.1080/23311975.2023.2184244
Layout of how introduced stimuli promote user's positive reception to notifications, in this instance emails, about products and companies. Good groundwork for the formatting of the simulation itself and how it was designed to retain users, direct reference may bolster the idea that the simulation was well-researched and how the determination was made to use this kind of system. Definitely use for "The Market" chapter. Also touches base on the visual appeal and how it was a factor in retaining members for the emailing lists.
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Woodside, A. G. (2010). Brand-consumer storytelling theory and research: Introduction to a Psychology & Marketing special issue.
Psychology & Marketing, 27(6), 531–540.
https://doi.org/10.1002/mar.20342
Good source to cite when discussing how a "brand story" was always part of the appeal of the simulation. Discusses the drive of people to connect with stories told and how satisfaction with stories is a driving factor in consumer behavior. Also discusses the need to retell stories in order to retain some consumers, but not to do so too often, otherwise interest is lost.