On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Gregory Zobel <zob...@wou.edu> wrote:
> Sounds good. I'll need to poke around a bit more. It looks like there are
> some already-existing and good resources in the UX section. I haven't
> worked in a wiki for a while either, so I need to review some of that.
>

The wiki is there as a convenience.  Use it only if it makes it easier
for you.  You could do it via the mailing list as well if you prefer.
But I would recommend starting a new thread for that, on the marketing
mailing list, since we've now drifted from discussion about website
satisfaction.

-Rob

> But I'll get to it.
>
> Best,
> gz
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Gregory Zobel <zob...@wou.edu> wrote:
>> > I'd be happy to help develop the survey questions.
>> > We could devise probably 4-7 more questions without users resisting too
>> > much--long surveys annoy users. Ending with a couple of open-ended
>> > questions: what is most frustrating to you about AOO? what do you like
>> most
>> > about AOO? could also shed some light.
>> >
>> > From what I can tell, ASF has a policy of open content, open source, and
>> it
>> > would follow that open data is a part of this. It might be possible to
>> get
>> > engagement from parts of the academic usability community (i.e. analysis
>> > and discussion of what the different results mean, what to adjust, as
>> well
>> > as promoting AOO in academia) by sharing the usability responses/results
>> > openly.
>> >
>> > Just an idea. I know when I was training, it was hard to find usability
>> > data because most entities protect it like IP--can't give results,
>> > shortcomings, or improvements. Having the data would also be nice.
>> >
>>
>> We take user privacy seriously as well.  Even though we're a US-based
>> non-profit we know that data protection laws vary and are stronger in
>> Europe, where many of our users are.  So if we anticipate that we'll
>> want to make the raw survey results open (as opposite to just
>> aggregate summarize) we'll need to think about what additional steps
>> will be needed.   For example, I usually track IP addresses in
>> LimeSurvey to detect multiple submissions.  We'd need to strip that
>> out of any publicly released data.  We'd also need a prominent
>> disclaimer/notice to the user, stating how the data will be used.
>>
>> When we did the logo survey (results here [1]) we received over 5000
>> responses in one week.  So there is an opportunity to get a
>> substantial number of responses.
>>
>> If you want to start designing the survey questions a good place for
>> this might be on the UX section of our wiki [2].  Maybe a new page
>> linked to the UX Research Strategy page?  Then send a link to that
>> page to the dev mailing list and anyone interested can follow along
>> and help.   I'll volunteer to translate the survey design into
>> LimeSurvey.  If we keep it short it should be possible to then get it
>> translated into a handful of languages.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> -Rob
>>
>>
>>
>> [1] http://survey.openoffice.org/reports/aoo40-logo-poll/
>>
>> [2] https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Apache_OpenOffice_User_Experience
>>
>>
>> > Best,
>> > gz
>> >
>> >
>> > On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Gregory Zobel <zob...@wou.edu> wrote:
>> >> > Hi Rob,
>> >> >
>> >> > I like the idea of a satisfaction survey. I would suggest using an
>> >> industry
>> >> > standard, the SUS.
>> >> > http://www.measuringusability.com/sus.php
>> >> >
>> >> > It's been around for 25 years or so, it has provided reliable metrics,
>> >> and
>> >> > it could prove to be a rich data source.
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> Thanks for passing that link along.  The SUS approach might be even
>> >> more interesting to apply to a satisfaction survey of the OpenOffice
>> >> product itself.
>> >>
>> >> One thing to know:  we do have access to a LimeSurvey instance
>> >> (http://survey.openoffice.org).  We used it most-recently to gather
>> >> feedback for our AOO 4.0 logo contest.  But it would be easy to use it
>> >> for a SUS survey as well.  The advantage with LimeSurvey is it makes
>> >> it really easy to manage multiple translations of the survey,
>> >> something nice with our international user based.
>> >>
>> >> If we did this survey, what other questions would we want to ask, to
>> >> give data to correlate against?   Maybe demographic factors like age,
>> >> sex, country.  Maybe operating system used (usability might vary by
>> >> OS), certainly what version of OpenOffice is used, how long they have
>> >> been using OpenOffice.
>> >>
>> >> Regards,
>> >>
>> >> -Rob
>> >>
>> >> > Another alternative is to create the survey in Google Forms and then
>> >> embed
>> >> > it on sub-page. I've used this approach in many classes taught online,
>> >> and
>> >> > it goes pretty well. Plus you get more questions.
>> >> >
>> >> > Best,
>> >> > gz
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org>
>> wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >> Google has a new service that makes it easy to add a website
>> >> >> satisfaction survey to a website.  The free version has 4 questions
>> >> >> that are asked of 500 random website visitors each month.  We would
>> be
>> >> >> given results on a monthly basis.  (They also have a paid version of
>> >> >> this service where you can customize the questions, but I think the
>> >> >> free version is fine for our use).
>> >> >>
>> >> >> The questions are:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> I. Overall, how satisfied are you with this website?
>> >> >>
>> >> >> 1) Very satisfied
>> >> >> 2) Somewhat satisfied
>> >> >> 3) Neither satisfied nor dissatisfied
>> >> >> 4) Somewhat dissatisfied
>> >> >> 5) Very dissatisfied
>> >> >>
>> >> >> II. What, if anything, do you find frustrating or unappealing about
>> >> >> this website?
>> >> >>
>> >> >> III. What is your main reason for visiting this website today?
>> >> >>
>> >> >> IV. Did you successfully complete your main reason for visiting this
>> >> >> website today?
>> >> >>
>> >> >> 1) Yes, I was successful
>> >> >> 2) I'm still completing my reason for visiting
>> >> >> 3) No, I tried but wasn't successful
>> >> >>
>> >> >> You can see an example of what the survey looks like here:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> http://www.google.com/insights/consumersurveys/websat_example
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Adding it to the website is easy:  a single line added to the header.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Regards,
>> >> >>
>> >> >> -Rob
>> >> >>
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