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This is the original survey used for this study. Note this survey is NO LONGER accepting input.

This survey is sponsored by the Institute for Dynamic Educational Advancement (IDEA), a nonprofit working to improve the ways people interact with technology. We are studying how people find information online and how the experience of web site visitors can be improved.

THE QUESTIONS

This survey should take less than eight minutes to complete. All questions are optional, so please skip any question to which you don’t know the answer.

If you are involved in multiple projects, please respond considering your work over the past three months. Your personal information will be held in strict confidence, never to be shared with a third party. Your responses will only be reported as aggregate data, not as individual responses. If you supply your email at the end, we will send you a copy of the study results, so you can see how your answers compare to those from other respondents.

TAKE THE SURVEY AND HELP A CHILD

IDEA has a passion for using information systems to facilitate interactive learning, and supports the mission of One Laptop per Child, an organization that has developed low-cost, innovative laptops to help educate children in emerging nations. We will donate one dollar to OLPC for every completed survey we receive, and hope that the survey responses will enable us to sponsor several laptops for kids.

1. What are the functions of the web sites you design? (Check all that apply)
2. Overall, how easily can visitors find information on the sites you design?
3. Do you think visitors enjoy using the sites you design?
4. From a typical web page that you design, do you think visitors usually know where they are, where they can go next, and which pages are related?
5. In your opinion, how important are the following elements when designing a web site?
CONTENT:
a. Engaging writing style
b. Good visual design
c. Up-to-date information or postings
d. Broad range of topics and levels of detail
e. Interactive or personalized content
f. Multimedia, videos or audio
g. Social networking or community features
ACCESSIBILITY:
h. A site map
i. A local search engine
j. Accessibility for non-English speakers
k. Access for disabled users
l. Access for low-literacy readers
m. Printable versions of content
n. Other (specify)

6. Hypothetically speaking, if you could act as a personal guide to site visitors in order to give them advice, recommendations, or to orient them to the web pages they need, would it increase the effectiveness of your web sites?
7. Do you feel there is a gap between what visitors realistically want to learn about a topic and the information that most web sites provide?
8. What is the average number of pages for a web site you design?
9. Which of the following challenges do you face in web site design? (Check all that apply)
10. Information on which of the following topics would help you in your work? (Check all that apply)

The following questions relate to your professional responsibilities.

11. How would you describe what you do? (Check all major responsibilities)
12. For what kind of organization do you work?
13. How much of your work revolves around some element of web design?
14. Was this survey interesting?

Thank you for taking the time to complete this survey. Please fill out the information below; when you do, we will donate to One Laptop per Child, an organization that is revolutionizing the way children in emerging nations learn.

15. Name

16. Email

Journal of Interaction Recipes - 3:1 2008

ISSN 1937-8955