Re: [Usability] Gnome Research - Sociological Surveys

[Florian Ludwig <dino phidev org>]

On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 23:11 +0300, Anton Kerezov wrote:

> Here's the first draft:
> http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=cFE1dHJkUkhFakVoNlZJVEFKNXRJZFE6MA..

> What is your job status?
Does the term "employed" include "self-employed"? (I dont know) But
anyway... does it matter if the user is employed? 

> How much time are you online using an instant messanger?
Missing "per day". After pondering a bit about what do you information
you actually get from answers to this I think the relation of this
number is missing - a person using the computer 4hrs/day and logging in
5min/day just to check "if a person X is only" is a pretty different
usage pattern from a person using the computer 1hr/day and being logged
in the whole time. So maybe ask:

How much of the time your computer is turned on is an instant messanger
running?


> How often do you check your emails? * Relative Number of times per day

> How many emails do you write per day?

Maybe make the all "per week" instead of "per day" since there are a lot
of people who dont check their mails every day, more like once per week.

> Do you have a blog?
Whats the different between "No" and "No I don't intend to use one." ?


> What computers do you own?
I would 
 - refer to device, not computer 
 - replace "own" with "use" (or "own and use")
 - add "smart phone"

> Do you feel you are doing repetarive actions when you are using the
menus in Gnome 2.x *
What is "repetarive"? Something you repeat very often? (never heard this
before) 

> Would you like to have a search for menuitems for each program in the
menubar?
Maybe "have a search for menutims integrated in each program" would be
more clear.
I would add "dont know" option here.

> What *are* workspace*s*?
or
> What is *a* workspace?


> How do you switch between the windows?
There is some function builtin metacity, where you hover the window with
the mouse and it becomes active, maybe add this option - i dont have any
idea if this is used widely. Maybe replace "a compiz plugin" with
"other" as there are a lot of other way with non gnome tools.



> Do you find what are you searching for in the filesystem tree?
Do you refer with "filesystem tree" to the linux/unix filesystem
hierarchy (/usr /var etc) or the filesystem in general? Filesystem as in
"navigating though files and folders with nautilus"?


> I would welcome any further question proposals as well as  a way to
> handle the Contry/language questions. 
Ask for the ISO two letter country code and explain its that what their
local webpages end with. Example: example.DE example.ES example.co.UK

> I can't possibly type all them, right? Also would need help with the
> education level because I'm not very familiar with the English terms.
suggestions:
[ ] master degree
[ ] PhD
[ ] apprenticeship
Note:
Comparing education on an international scale is a science on its own.
I'm not a native speaker so its more a guess :)

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You should write a bit about what you think you want to do with the
results. The questions' topics are really mixed up.

But it all depends on the question what your research exactly targets to
answer.

You wrote a little introduction on scribd.com but from that I cant
really get what your intention is (but making gnome better).


greetings,
Florian