Re: [Usability] Gnome Research - Sociological Surveys

[Florian Ludwig <dino phidev org>]

In general I think the majority of questions should be multiple choice
questions or "insert number" and not free-text. Its much easier to
evaluate later on and you get some numbers.

But provide some way to comment at the end of the survey, its
frustrating if you have to choose an answer that doesn't rally match
your opionion on a question and you cant even complain about it.



On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 16:38 +0300, Anton Kerezov wrote:

>> What other questions do you intend to ask?
> 
> Well I haven't thought of them all just yet but here's a sample list:
> 
> - How old are you? (determines the majority of users Gnome is used by)
> - How do you want to connect with others online? (Will show how the
> user interacts with other users online and if he wants the software
> integrated in the DE)
I would use more specific questions like
 - How much time are you online using an instant messanger?
 - How often do you check your emails?
 - How many emails do you write per day?
 - Do you have a blog?

> - Do you feel you can work faster if the software allows it (is more
> usable)?
I dont get the point of this one.

> - How many steps you want to open a file for edit?
My answer: none, the system should just know what I want ;-)


On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 10:22 -0400, Celeste Lyn Paul wrote: 
> Also should ask education, country, primary language, OS language, if they 
> have a laptop/computer/both, etc. so you can get a profile of the type of user 
> they might be.
I like this points. The "os language" question is one that could be
answered by a script, so brings up another idea of having some tool for
some basic data mining, an idea that came up here several times before I
think but never got implemented, does it? I definitely think there are
lots of interesting questions about current desktop use that could be
answered by a script.

For example check out  Kirk Bridger's post from about a week ago and
this wikipage he wrote about this matter:
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/UserResearch


Florian