Re: Draft OpenOffice Writer Usability Survey
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 5:11 PM, Donald Whytock dwhyt...@apache.org wrote: On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 4:51 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: I while ago we were contacted by some academic researchers in Spain who wanted to do a usability study about OpenOffice Writer. The wanted to interview Writer users, both new and experienced. You can read about the study here: https://sites.google.com/site/silviateresitaacunna/Home/usability-in-oss Since data privacy would not allow us to give them our mailing list to contact the users directly, we came up with the idea of using an opt-in survey to collect the names of those who would be interested. You can see the draft survey here: http://survey.openoffice.org/index.php/396365/lang/en/ It collects basic info about the users and their experience level, and then at the end asks if they agree to participate in the follow-up study. If they agree then we collect their email address. If you get a chance, please review the survey and let me know of any concerns. The phrasing on the year questions, Each answer must be between 0 and 100, seems a bit odd, as if one is expected to give more than one answer to the question. Here's the issue with that question: Our experience with the prior two questions is that we run into trouble when asking a how long have you been type question. We saw people entering the year they started doing the action. So they would enter 2010 if they started using OpenOffice in 2010 rather than 3 for three years. So the field validation is attempting to give an error if they make this mistake. It restricts the duration field to a number between 0 and 100. -Rob Other than that it looks fine to me. Don - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Draft OpenOffice Writer Usability Survey
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: Rob Weir wrote: You can see the draft survey here: http://survey.openoffice.org/index.php/396365/lang/en/ I don't get the difference between being a University professor and being employed (or better: I don't see the reason to make separate categories for people who work at a University). This is not how I would do this either. But it is their study, so I'm inclined to let them do it that way if they want... More important: the last page should give some more information about the study, at least stating the topic (usability) in a more visible way. But linking to the study directly would be OK too. so people know what to expect. It links to the professor's website on introduction to the survey, but it makes sense to repeat the link at the end as well. I'll make that change. -Rob The rest is OK for me. Regards, Andrea. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Draft OpenOffice Writer Usability Survey
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 9:15 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 5:11 PM, Donald Whytock dwhyt...@apache.org wrote: On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 4:51 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: I while ago we were contacted by some academic researchers in Spain who wanted to do a usability study about OpenOffice Writer. The wanted to interview Writer users, both new and experienced. You can read about the study here: https://sites.google.com/site/silviateresitaacunna/Home/usability-in-oss Since data privacy would not allow us to give them our mailing list to contact the users directly, we came up with the idea of using an opt-in survey to collect the names of those who would be interested. You can see the draft survey here: http://survey.openoffice.org/index.php/396365/lang/en/ It collects basic info about the users and their experience level, and then at the end asks if they agree to participate in the follow-up study. If they agree then we collect their email address. If you get a chance, please review the survey and let me know of any concerns. The phrasing on the year questions, Each answer must be between 0 and 100, seems a bit odd, as if one is expected to give more than one answer to the question. Here's the issue with that question: Our experience with the prior two questions is that we run into trouble when asking a how long have you been type question. We saw people entering the year they started doing the action. So they would enter 2010 if they started using OpenOffice in 2010 rather than 3 for three years. So the field validation is attempting to give an error if they make this mistake. It restricts the duration field to a number between 0 and 100. Oh, I understand the intent. It was just the use of the word each that I wondered about, since Each answer must be between 0 and 100 appeared before multiple questions. So it was reading a bit to me that the restriction applied to each of the presumably potentially multiple answers to that question.
Re: Draft OpenOffice Writer Usability Survey
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 2:51 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: I while ago we were contacted by some academic researchers in Spain who wanted to do a usability study about OpenOffice Writer. The wanted to interview Writer users, both new and experienced. You can read about the study here: https://sites.google.com/site/silviateresitaacunna/Home/usability-in-oss Since data privacy would not allow us to give them our mailing list to contact the users directly, we came up with the idea of using an opt-in survey to collect the names of those who would be interested. You can see the draft survey here: http://survey.openoffice.org/index.php/396365/lang/en/ It collects basic info about the users and their experience level, and then at the end asks if they agree to participate in the follow-up study. If they agree then we collect their email address. If you get a chance, please review the survey and let me know of any concerns. Regards, -Rob - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org In the question Which of these applications do you know how to use? I'm not sure what the Other answer is intended to capture. I use several applications besides word processors, spreadsheets, databases and email. And leaving out a presentation application as an explicit option seems odd. Francis
Re: Draft OpenOffice Writer Usability Survey
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 4:51 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: I while ago we were contacted by some academic researchers in Spain who wanted to do a usability study about OpenOffice Writer. The wanted to interview Writer users, both new and experienced. You can read about the study here: https://sites.google.com/site/silviateresitaacunna/Home/usability-in-oss Since data privacy would not allow us to give them our mailing list to contact the users directly, we came up with the idea of using an opt-in survey to collect the names of those who would be interested. You can see the draft survey here: http://survey.openoffice.org/index.php/396365/lang/en/ It collects basic info about the users and their experience level, and then at the end asks if they agree to participate in the follow-up study. If they agree then we collect their email address. If you get a chance, please review the survey and let me know of any concerns. The phrasing on the year questions, Each answer must be between 0 and 100, seems a bit odd, as if one is expected to give more than one answer to the question. Other than that it looks fine to me. Don
Re: Draft OpenOffice Writer Usability Survey
Rob Weir wrote: You can see the draft survey here: http://survey.openoffice.org/index.php/396365/lang/en/ I don't get the difference between being a University professor and being employed (or better: I don't see the reason to make separate categories for people who work at a University). More important: the last page should give some more information about the study, at least stating the topic (usability) in a more visible way. But linking to the study directly would be OK too. so people know what to expect. The rest is OK for me. Regards, Andrea. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Draft OpenOffice Writer Usability Survey
It was fine to me. powered by android On Feb 25, 2014 4:37 PM, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: Rob Weir wrote: You can see the draft survey here: http://survey.openoffice.org/index.php/396365/lang/en/ I don't get the difference between being a University professor and being employed (or better: I don't see the reason to make separate categories for people who work at a University). More important: the last page should give some more information about the study, at least stating the topic (usability) in a more visible way. But linking to the study directly would be OK too. so people know what to expect. The rest is OK for me. Regards, Andrea. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
