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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. The Daylight Saving Time WebExhibit is one of IDEA’s ongoing projects. We are also 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 that you don’t wish to answer.

Any personal information you provide 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.

1. Over the past month, what types of web sites have you visited? (Check all that apply)

For these next questions, please think about web sites you have visited in the past month that provide information (rather than, for example, shopping web sites or social networking sites).

2. How easily can you find information on the sites you visit?
3. Generally speaking, do you enjoy using the sites you visit?
4. When you visit a typical web page, do you usually know where you are, where you can go next, and which pages are related?
5. In your opinion, how important are the following elements of 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 the people who designed the web sites you visit could act as your personal guide and give you advice, recommendations, or to direct you to the web pages you need, would it be helpful?
7. Do you feel there is a gap between what you want to learn about a topic and the information that most web sites provide?
8. Please estimate the number of web sites you have visited during the past month.
9. On average, how often do you visit social networking sites like FaceBook and MySpace?
10. Generally speaking, in what ways could the web sites you regularly visit be more effective? (Check all that apply)

The following questions are purely informational, and your answers will be held in the strictest confidence.

11. Are you…
12. If you’re employed, for what kind of organization do you work?
13. 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 send you a copy of the survey results.

14. Name

15. Email

Journal of Interaction Recipes - 3:1 2008

ISSN 1937-8955