Graphics, Visualization, and Usability Center

Usage Comments

Comment 0: Much of this usage is as an archive builder and as the administrator charged with bringing W3 browsers, editors, and servers to Chico State University.

Comment 1: My UPC field is blank!

Comment 2: I do not believe that users should be relied upon to give accurate estimates of these quantities, I regret that I place no confidence in your survey. Also scrolling the window is *really* slow in Mosaic, did you *test* this questionairre first? Some of the questions are ambiguous I think. You should always beta test your surveys. Best wishes

Comment 3: Don't like too many images /sounds etc on primary page. Takes too long to load on slow nets. Better with thumbnail/icons and load if needed.

Comment 4: Given the limited experience I have with some of the media you mention it's difficult to assess how I would value them -- my judgement is very much formed by experiences

Comment 5: Question 2 has no option "use WWW as a system interaction tool". I definitely want user interfaces with WWW front ends for e.g system management, user support.

Comment 6: Experience so far indicates that while the Web is a great tool, many of the existing pages need more thought put into their design, to make them easier to read and follow. (For example, on finishing this survey page I would expect a link to the next survey page; instead I have to go back to the main page.)

Comment 7: >Retrieve Documents from Archives using your WWW Browser > (i.e. instead of using archie, gopher, ftp, &/or wais) I use mosaic to access gopher and wais but not for archie and ftp as mosaic has good support for the first two but the specialised clients are better for the second pair. Also, this window is too small.

Comment 8: Loving or hating a media is a strange idea to me. I'm interested more in the information content than it's presentation for the most part.

Comment 9: question 3 is unclear -- you mean "how often do you use the WWW as opposed to other media"?

Comment 10: One of the nicest things I've found on the WWW lately is O'Reilly's GNN page. Also the increasing number of museums, etc., that are on the WWW are very nice.

Comment 11: publish the results on the web..

Comment 12: numbered Radio button are unhelpful for indicating preference. Either name them or let us type in a percentage. why is "1" never? (why not "0") also is each set independnet or a proportion of the last (Re: part 3) ... finding what you are looking for?!

Comment 13: Q1: I use WWW constantly during the day... Q4: Hard to disregard the technical stuff

Comment 14: I like dvi-files more than postscript, because they are looking better on a screen, and they are A LOT smaller, which makes them quicker to retrieve. Maybe that could me a de facto-standard for not-plain-text- reports?

Comment 15: I often explore URLs found in comp.infosystems.www

Comment 16: I use a browser about once a day - all day long. We use it for coordinating a project, as well as publishing info about our site.

Comment 17: I selected ~search oriented~ above, but I regard *searching* as one access methodology, and *browsing* as the other. You didn't have browsing as an option at all, and I wasn't sure what you meant by "Text" and "Visual" as opposed to "Search".

Comment 18: I have no sound or movie viewing capabilities on my computer, though movies could be interesting.

Comment 19: I support Internet services both for the University of Costa Rica and the National Network Association of Costa Rica

Comment 20: 1 to 4 times a day doesn't indicate the length of time of each session. Also note that you misspelled images in question 5.

Comment 21: I put down hate for movies and sound since I don't have a browser for these.

Comment 22: i don't like your classification into keyword/text/visual. it just depends on the info.

Comment 23: If we ever devolop the band width then sound and then movies will become useful Today they are a pain.

Comment 24: I'd stop using the wais client if mosaic allowed queries to more than one src at a time

Comment 25: love it. an offrmap to the superhwy right here at my desk!

Comment 26: "Would you classify yourself as a search, text, or visually orientated user?" I didn't feel that the answers vailable described my preference. I'm happy with all.

Comment 27: I "love" to retrieve things that are interesting Text that are laid out well with images, etc are also nice.

Comment 28: Prefered media type depend on content. Question is really unaswerable as stated. If the last question had applied to _all_ the activities you listed, the answer would have been different. It is easy to read it as `how many hours do you use in your www browser'.

Comment 29: I filled out this form using the Lynx client

Comment 30: Still bad scrolling.

Comment 31: I almost never use WWW to browser ftp sites, ncftp is much more useful for that I do fetch inidividual files, when referenced from some html doccument. Almost all tech reports I fetch that way. I don't have sound capability My link is low speed, so images are usually too expensive for their worth. But small ones are nice for livening up home pages.

Comment 32: Browsing the Web has been my biggest distraction over the past 4-5 months. It's great, but I never get anything done!

Comment 33: I'm on a 56Kbit line: more bandwidth please!

Comment 34: I used to go Net Surfing (exploring) several hours a day. I have reduced that somewhat recently. I now am looking for more specific things when I explore.

Comment 35: It's easy to be neutral about things that just show up as [IMG] in lynx. What I hate is documnet authors who assume everyone uses Mosaic.

Comment 36: Regarding the Weather question, the 0 value I've put is mainly because there is very few weather informations for Europe on the internet.

Comment 37: The main reason why I rated inlined so low is because of the time needed to download them. People responsible for designing WWW documents should consider that not all of their readers are located in North America. I greatly appreciate the mosaic features that allow you to choose whether to get inlined images.

Comment 38: Question 4 was difficult to answer. It is difficult to answer without regarding technical aspect like e.g. the time to transfer a image or movie. It also depends on the type of information I am looking for. A good map or image cannot be describe on many page. So if the information is of that type I prefer images (give it 10 points). On the other hand there are often pages with lots of unnecessary images and icons. It is very annoying to wait minutes for this.

Comment 39: Missing with some questions a field giving the opportunity to say: Never saw this, still exploring .... The time aspect is also different, if I am new I spend hours and hours... But later we will see..

Comment 40: I can't listen to the sounds, because it is not supported on my workstation

Comment 41: I suspect I'll use WWW lots more in the future though, now that it is expanding a lot (especially locally)

Comment 42: As far as I am concerned Visually represented information is much more `accessible' than text - however it requires considerably more bandwidth and can be frustrating on slow networks. It's therefore important for information providers to supply both textual and visual information.

Comment 43: The level of maturity of WWW use precludes answer to many of these questions. Do you see WWW as a source of information or as a mediator of other information? That is where I think that it will really develope.

Comment 44: I wish *all* WWW clients could access integrated sound+vision :-).

Comment 45: My current usage is much higher than average since I am exploring new ways of making information available locally, as well as learning the technologies involved (HTML, etc)

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Comment 47: Saying "disregarding network bandwith and technical issues" about inlined images is avoiding the issue. I'm on a slow network connection, and have images turned off, becuase I can't afford the bandwith to view them. Oh, and how does one get word-wrap working in the form field?

Comment 48: At this point in time this survey will slanted toward those users who have access to xwindow because PC and Mac versions do not have forms capability. I know several heavy users of WWW who only have access to Macintoshs.

Comment 49: Would like to see more uniformity in search procedures. More documents available online or ftp-able.

Comment 50: The wording on someof the questions could do with improving. Particularly question 3

Comment 51: Text is more important than images, since not all WWW browsers can view inlined images. For examples, I use "lynx" as the WWW browser from time to time when I connect to the machines where WWW clients reside using a modem from my home PC or Mac. In this case, VT100 window is the only choice.

Comment 52: 1. No ability to play sounds, so that question is really not applicable. 2. There is an inherient problem in searching keywords in a database: knowing what the keywords are! You never really know if a keyword is appropriate. I think database providers ought to provide a keyword list, even if it's just alphabetical. 3.

Comment 53: It would have been nice to have fewer than 9 levels of preference to choose from. It's somewhat unclear what the differences between 2 3 and 4 or 6 7 and 8 are. I would suggest 5 levels.

Comment 54: Question 5 is confusing/misleading because I would prefer a well-organized textual information source over a badly organized visual information hierarchy. It all relies on non-tangible qualities of "goodness in UI design" for these forms.

Comment 55: When you say 'WWW browser instead of gopher browser' and such, I assumed you meant the frequency I used Mosaic to browse gopherspace, as opposed to the amount of time I used Mosaic compared to the amount of time I used other browsers for gopherspace. For example, I never use any other gopher clients to browse gopherspace... so do I always use WWw browser instead of the gopher browser? I decided that wasn't what you meant, and answered the question to mean how often I browed gopherspace.

Comment 56: Would you publish your survey results.

Comment 57: I am a university press publisher and have a vested interest in using the WWW for publishing our catalogues and journals in this environment.

Comment 58: The orientation question is completely dependent on what I'm trying to do. If I'm working, I'm text oriented, with keyword searches nice if they are powerful enough to do the job (but WAIS often isn't), while if I'm browsing for entertainment I'm more visually oriented.

Comment 59: Searches would be better if there were more feedback as to how the search was implemented (i.e. regexp, keyword), and why the search failed. Sometimes a search box shows up in the document and it doesn't explain what you're supposed to search for. GNN is a good example of this.

Comment 60: Inlined images on home pages are irritating A fast downloading home page, followed by graphics on other pages is better.

Comment 61: Q5: To explore the Internet or any other large resource, one must use a combo of search and browse methods to be effective. So most people are not totally in one camp or another I would think.

Comment 62: Ratings of 1 in the movies and sound questions reflect that they cannot be accessed on my platform rather than an objection to the medium.

Comment 63: I Dont have sound capabilities yet!!

Comment 64: On Question 3, my answers may be misleading as I can only use WWW tools to access gophers outside my firewall.

Comment 65: I'd probebly use Xmosaic much more if it was less buggy, e.g. right now I'm typing with one hand and press the middle button on the mouse with the other hand to get input focus, or having "external viewers" not running most of the time.

Comment 66: It is difficult to indicate a preference in abstracting access time etc! Because what I do everyday is conditioned by it - and by what is available! Available on the Net but also in my office: X-terminal without sound, fine for nice color graphics, but ethernet bandwith too low for movies... Fine hp LaserJet 4M B/W printer but no color...etc Therefore I do not feel that you should not take this section of the survey very seriously...

Comment 67: There is a growing trend to "simplify" databases by making them appear as Search Word:__________ only. This is more confusing that helpful. There needs to be an intermediate level where the search will give you a gopher-like tree of information.

Comment 68: Most of my dislike of non-embedded media is that my x terminal (A PC running PC-XView) doesn't support sounds or movies well.

Comment 69: sound and movies do not work for me I use all search/browse techniques

Comment 70: Uh, first of all, that should be visually oriented user (there's no such thing as orientated). Now that that's off my chest, so to speak, I can't classify myself as any of those three. I don't see the difference between keyword search and text, and I can't see how they compete with visual things (really, one picture is NOT worth a thousand words). On the other hand, visual things are nice also. I guess that I'm really a textually oriented keyword user that likes visual aids.

Comment 71: The main problem with graphics and movies and sound is the latency that can happen, and sometimes compatability problems...

Comment 72: wais searches frequently don't work from MOSAIC (2.0, 20/1/94) videos are too large to be downloaded (slow, bad for the net) sounds are normally unnecessary external images require extra programs (not normally installed) Text is find provided it is in html format and is therefore formatted correctly for the current window size

Comment 73: For question 5 I really use all features... I read text quite a bit, I appreciate inlined images and searches are quite handy when they apply. That is the cool thing about this is the ability to use the right media at the right time.

Comment 74: I would explore more if I had easier access to a machine directly on the net rather than through a dial-up.

Comment 75: I actually prefer both text and graphics (which your survey did not have as a choice) I think inlines are fine, but would prefer a more efficient method of transfering them (instead of grabbing them one at a time) 

Comment 76: Great - love it I guess WWW is a real breakthrough.

Comment 77: Instead of "love/hate" continuum in Q4, how about "want more/less" of same. Also, my response in section 4 was dependent on my connection bandwidth and the fact that some people abuse the pages they put up by using lots of high density data (e.g. images) which really slow down a transfer (Although delay image loading option does help theoretically, I've never used it.)

Comment 78: why no questions about hypertext? I especially like being able to read a paragraph, then click on a certain topic to get more info

Comment 79: no one answer to the serch question is satisfactory. I use all three modes as appropriate: keyword, text and visual.

Comment 80: your comments

Comment 81: The page one gets after submitting this form should have a pointer to the page with the other forms.

Comment 82: There is a hell of a lot of info on the web. I find that I look at the "What is New Page" and other buffers to the onslaught of data to do focus my exploring. (in otherword I think they are very useful)

Comment 83: This form was unbearable to use due to poor scroll updates.

Comment 84: The last answer is deceptive: 2/3rds of my classes require using the web and/or Mosaic (I am a student).

Comment 85: I would like to see _more_ publishers and booksellers on the Web, as I have had some difficulty finding them as yet.

Comment 86: We at CMU are starting to add things to our Web that were hitherto distributed on paper. Using the Web (via Mosaic) to access local materials will soon be as important as using netnews to read local bboards

Comment 87: Tremendous facility - makes Internet much more accessible. However, I'm still new to it - interesting to see if my enthusiasm keeps up. I thought news was pretty amazing when I first discovered that.

Comment 88: I am a biologist. Started off with WAIS graduated to gopher, and now I am converting to W3. I have wais sources for Nucleic acids. I would like to see better wais support in httpd.

Comment 89: I love grphics in a document, but if it comes to searching large amounts of text, keyword search is better.

Comment 90: genial !!

Comment 91: Some body has got to fix the scrolling of forms. It took twice as long as needed to fill this in.

Comment 92: Visual (images, movies) and sounds are too slow to get.

Comment 93: The formatted text is fine - its that awful unformatted (taken from a TTY) text this very difficult to read. I use Mosaic as a browser, so things usually come up looking nice. Often I wish all images were brought up in the window (inlined) so that I don't have to manage the extra windows.

Comment 94: You should have selection N/A for each media type. I simply didn't enter for many of them since I don't have access to them.

Comment 95: Use an Xterminal hence no audio Forms are unusable (almost) with Mosaic

Comment 96: I like images etc because they are the beauty of WWW - that's what's so much better thean gopher. I'd like to use WWW more often , and for more 'serious' purposes, but my field is geology and the information isn't yet there. I anticipate it's arrival, however, and have contributed in a small way by establishing my own geological WWWserver.

Comment 97: I voted 9's on most of the questions. I didn't know if I was supposed to rank them against one another. If so, text would be most important, then inline images, then external images, then movies, then sound. Or, er, keyword searches would be beore external images.

Comment 98: to: "Would you classify u'rself as serach text or visually ..." i prefer a good mixture of text and images/movies

Comment 99: I am less successfull finding particular topics as I would like. I am an eduacated user.

Comment 100: Remember that you said to disregard transfer time, but that is a huge usabality impact! It can't really be disregarded.

Comment 101: I like to use a combination of Keyword search and text browsing when searching information -- much like reading an encyclopedia

Comment 102: I like Hypertext !!!

Comment 103: Re: how often do I use the Web per day: I use it all the time, never close the client

Comment 104: we would like to have a better way to do keyword searches in databases or documents

Comment 105: WWW has revolutionized my research and has already contributed to a lot of saved time.

Comment 106: Time goes for constructing the database for www, I'd like to do more browsing and exploring. in order to find good sources supporting research in our Institute.

Comment 107: Question 5 - keyword searching is important to find information quickly - then use graphics to present the information in a useful way.

Comment 108: I haven't had occasion to retrieve many images or movies yet.

Comment 109: I am using a Campus Sun to enter these forms, because the Mac Browser has not fully matured yet. Optimizing browsing for slower, older machines would be nice--but I don't know how feasible it is. I would like to get more information on live Internet video/audio conferencing.

Comment 110: Like all the images/pictures, but text is still the bread and butter.

Comment 111: I dont have sound support for the time being. As my connection is rather slow (64 kbaud), I prefer not to get too many images. It takes up far too much time.

Comment 112: In my research area (molecular biology/immunology) there is not much in the way of sound or movie data out there (that I know of) and so much of the information is text and static image based. However, I can see where that format could be immensely useful - I have always had a secret hankering to produce a methods "book" where you could see someone pouring a gel, or pulling a band from a caesium gradient.

Comment 113: Movies are not yet practical on my PC. Postage stamp size and choppy. And no sound board.

Comment 114: I don't have a charter to spend as much time browsing as I'd like.

Comment 115: SORRY BUT THIS IS TAKING TOO MUCH TIME!

Comment 116: Movies have great potential; however, my system ends up playing them at too low a frame rate for them to be more insightful than still pictures.

Comment 117: Don't have to time to use it more often.

Comment 118: Bandwidth is the big issue. I'd like to see more images, especially in the sense of magazine-style layouts, but we need more speed. -JMax

Comment 119: Much of my time "exploring" Internet is looking for specific things. keyword searches on dbs like archie make finding specific things faster. WWW allows for finding new things.

Comment 120: I generally use the internet for database searches ( eg, DNA sequence and genetic data), for software updates, and for news.

Comment 121: I would classify myself as a "text and visuals" (i.e. hypertext) person--not a keyword person.Your question doesn't allow that answer.

Comment 122: What format I like to see things in depends on what I'm doing. I prefer to browse text when getting an overview, and keyword search when looking for specific details.

Comment 123: Search/text/visual?! Mixed is best -- and keepig min mind most users have small (14") screens, and modem links (14.4Kb) so 256 color giant images are irritating not breathtaking. Effective use of text and small well chosen inline images, plus small dialog boxes are best!

Comment 124: I haven't figureed out how to get in-line sounds to work: never used movies. In-line imagess piss me off because they slow down the transfer time and if I wswitch th em off then I feel that I'm missing something

Comment 125: As far as the browsing preferences to text, search, images, it all depends on what I'm looking for and the precision of my goal. I'd be disappointed to see this survey used to tell people that WWW users prefer to see listings of text rather then search indices or other options. In many cases providing all options is possible, and in other cases the best method for information selection is data-dependent, and can be determined by the service provider. I would have liked to click all the buttons on the search question.

Comment 126: No questions were asked about use for access to commercial services or access to commercially oriented information. I use WWW for such activities.

Comment 127: George P. Burdell slept here.

Comment 128: I like the form-entry capabilities of WWW. Please expand on this and allow for more flexibility in data entry, validation rules, pre and post processing, and calculated fields. NOTE: Making a Forms MIME type would be cool! Downloading a form could be done via the external viewer. This could be a program that would take the form info, rules, and methods, and it would allow entry. Submitting the form could send a MIME email to some location. This would allow a division of the development of Mosaic and of the data entry clients. Also, in this system, we would definitely want the ability to encrpt with PGP or something as good! Definitely the in-place data entry is valuable and useful too. But a MIME form based system could even allow a DRAWING data-entry area, for painting pictures! I know this sounds weird, but it is just an example of the kind of input that user's could have in this scenario. Education would love it!

Comment 129: My previous academic course was Artificial Intelligence so a *LOT* of time was spent on computer. Now I have less of an excuse but I seem to be in here every day anyway. Cyberspace is addictive. And I'm in touch with colleagues & friends from my previous Uni by email/talk systems daily, which is very important to me. :)

Comment 130: For Q5, I like text (+ some images) and the ability to search. It all depends on what I am looking for. For example, the fish search extensions to Mosaic are really nice.

Comment 131: If I'm after something specific I prefer a database with a keyword search. If I'm looking for general information I prefer text browsing following hyperlinks.

Comment 132: Even with the search facilities, it is often difficult to find the topics that are of interest.

Comment 133: I cannot yet view movies but would like them if I could. Text is still invaluable for conveying certain types of information.

Comment 134: Hmm, not sure about the meaning of the word "explore".

Comment 135: I don't like movies/pictures/sounds because they take so long to download. For search vs. browse it depends on what I'm looking for, and what facilities are provided.

Comment 136: I don't really have a good answer to question 5: I use all of these for different purposes.

Comment 137: I just started using WWW (although I've been on the internet for quite a few years) so I haven't discovered all of the things one can do with WWW.

Comment 138: I do not understand the nature of the second to last question... It seems to me that one would use a keyword search in order to arrive at text or visually oriented information.

Comment 139: This is with respect to the previous survey regarding paix paying for services. I personally would not mind provided the fees were not excessive however, getting my agency to pay for them would be another story, since I am not sure the decision makers would see the value, perhaps if the fees were part of the annual Internet fee(if that is how it is billed>) then it would be alot easier to collect charges from government agencies, "in my opinion"

Comment 140: the outline/menu (mosaic at least) is randomly organized. very difficult to find something that you are specifically looking for, but easy to browse. I have only found useful things by "accident" while browsing; yet even going after a specific item (history of science out of Johns-Hopkins) which I know to be listed on WWW, is nearly impossible for me, a WWW neophyte.

Comment 141: Mosaic is annoying slow at scrolling when there are this many buttons on a page :( Even on a sparc 10...

Comment 142: Question 5 of this survey should be detailed a bit more.

Comment 143: Image transfer _very_ slow, sometimes unusable for big images (like weather information).

Comment 144: Its sometimes hard to do keyword search without knowing the keywords :-)

Comment 145: I don't like the categories and questions here - no clear distinctions or definitions. "it all depends" how could these answers be helpful?

Comment 146: this form was excruciatingly slow and awkward to fill out over an ISDN line! As a result, I probably will not fill out the others.

Comment 147: Note on survey interpretation: just because I said I didn't do X very frequently doesn't mean that I don't like doing it. In some cases Ididn't know you could do X, e.g. archie browse.

Comment 148: My primary activity is finding specs, documents & software related to Web.

Comment 149: On question #5 I use all three modes depending on what I need to research.

Comment 150: Some of the questions should have more than 1 choice (e.g., #5). Also, I have not yet downloaded audio files yet. Conferencing might be nice.

Comment 151: Maybe one ought to ask *why* I don't like movies. Usually, as with images and sounds, it's because it takes too long to transfer them over the net. Hi JimDandy.

Comment 152: We use Mosaic+WWW (the plexus server) to store and review internal (company) documentation.

Comment 153: General user traits doesn't take into account different modes of usage -- more than one possible answer depending. "...how well you prefer..." isn't English :) Never -- Always isn't appropriate for some questions (first part of question 3 in particular makes no sense

Comment 154: Only good things to say

Comment 155: Keyword searching facilities are still inadequate; need more friendly interfaces and better relevance feedback.

Comment 156: Startup time is a big issue. I like the fancy pages, but even over a fast net connection, they can load very slowly. Adaptive compression or even display of incomplete documents would be a huge improvement.

Comment 157: Would like more text formating capability in the HTML spec

Comment 158: If a god had a digitized form it would be an infinite hypertext browser.

Comment 159: As you can see I think it's wonderful and is part of our communal future **** I am afraid your forms run *VERY* slowly and messily over the limited badwidth we have!*** scrolling is awful!

Comment 160: Mosaic is the beginning. Hopefully we will expand from this foundation to a truely high powered highly visual browsing and retrieval toolset.

Comment 161: It is difficyult to fill this out becuase there is no support for delete in this window! This or rather these questionatres are a good idea but the interface the user sees can be quite frustrating at times. i.e. - not being able to correct spelling (and slow scrolling due to use of radio buttons) -Some questionas are also to specific or uninsightful to be usfull. Qus////!92871!@$%!@. Question 5 wihcih asks one to classify what type of user they are by search, text or vsually oriented is highly misleading. IT seems (at least to me) obvious that certain types of search lend themselves to different search techniques regardless of user preference. (Image search might use a combination of subject and visual search (i.e. a subject heiracrgy with a visual browse.) (This however would be a poor interface for looking up Journal articles)

Comment 162: Although I prefer visual interaction, I feel equally at home with text and keyword searches.

Comment 163: It is tough to choose between keyword searches and browsing text. When I am looking for something specific, I want to do a search. When I am seeing "What's New," I like to browse.

Comment 164: still cool.

Comment 165: General user traits: I think this is an unfair categorization of a user. I use the Web extensively for all three. Each has it use. I'd hate to try to browse by Keyword search, and I'd hate to search databases such as genbank and other bio-oriented database by visual techniques.

Comment 166: Thank god for www

Comment 167: I love the multimedia aspects of WWW, but I use the forms capability for research, e.g. using the BLAST server at NCBI. I love being able to then retrieve the results and not having to bother with E-mail messages.

Comment 168: I like the images, but I feel they are a bit over-used; I get the impression that they are often included for no other reason than simply because they can.

Comment 169: This is just a bare beginning of the Information SuperHighway, but what a wonderful beginning. I often have Mosaic up and running when at work, and during long processing jobs (frequent with the work I do) spend it doing research or just exploring with Mosaic.

Comment 170: Excellent Job!!!

Comment 171: Spawned images are a lose for me because I don't have xv, and can't configure mosaic to just save images. Same with w3.el. I'm a NeXT user, and anxiously await a NEXTSTEP version. WRT media types: I think text, images, sound are obligatory. Movies strike me as impractical, but I'm using a v.32 SLIP link. Usage: The form support is great. Some of the queries I've used (Archie, WAIS) could give some feedback.

Comment 172: I would use graphics and sound more if they didn't overtax my machine.

Comment 173: I don't think it makes too much sense to ask what sort of data people prefer. I like text because it's there. if databease had better coverage, I would prefer to search. I don't have sound on my x terminal, so that doesn't apply.

Comment 174: I want to clarify my answer to #5 (search, text or visual users). I like to SEARCH using keyword searching. Once I find a document, I like to to include graphics.

Comment 175: Inlined images are a *pain* on slow network links Keyword searching is the most efficient when you know what you're looking for.

Comment 176: Unable to display movies or sounds currently

Comment 177: The buttons scroll bad on xMosaic, but apart from that I love it :-)

Comment 178: The Web is definitely (IMHO) the future of Information Retrieval and Dissemination. Long Live The Web! :-)

Comment 179: I'm an intermittent consultant so the answers I give apply to the (few) weeks when I'm working with access to www.

Comment 180: we recently got xmosaic, so the time of use and exploration may get lower

Comment 181: Question 5, General User Traits, is far too broad. I do all of these things, at various times, depending on what I'm trying to accomplish. None is dominant.

Comment 182: None of the X-terms I have access to have sound capabilities, so sounds are not much use to me!

Comment 183: ...which is probably more than I should...

Comment 184: I found the scales in section 3 a bit tricky. 'Sometimes' is very vague.

Comment 185: SAince I am an absolute beginner, and to be that forever, doing complex things with pictures, gifs etc. is still far to complicated for me. Since use WWW for my job I am rather text oriented.

Comment 186: Keyword searching is only useful if there is the capability of regular expressions.

Comment 187: I'm hooked. Now that I have Mosaic running, I can't put it down.

Comment 188: I've seen the future, and it's WWW

Comment 189: I think WWW is excellent intiative, but I am afraid the restrictions from some telephony companies (in France, France Telecom is trying to get the fees for Internet access)....

Comment 190: I like all the media types. The idea of multimedia is exciting.

Comment 191: I love images but because my link is slow I don't really benefit from them yet. Therefore I tend to searches to minimise data transfer.

Comment 192: Go Jackets!!!!

Comment 193: question 3: retrieve documents is not clear.

Comment 194: Because it's too damned frusterating trying to find anything!!!

Comment 195: No support for 3D scripts??

Comment 196: Very new at this and trying to understand what is available

Comment 197: I like this form thing so I copied it!!

Comment 198: While I prefer browsing text, I very much appreciate the ability to search as needed.

Comment 199: Keyword search is good for locating information, hypertext and images are good for browsing the located information (i.e. refinement)

Comment 200: You can see what I prefer by visiting my WWW-Server,

Comment 201: I use the browser a lot to find new and interesting things on the net and to expand my own knowledge.

Comment 202: I can't really rate sound, because my system doesn't have audio capabilities

Comment 203: I haven't been using it long, so my profile is bound to change over time.

Comment 204: Movies? WHERE? All I see are static images, which are fed to XV without the -owncmap switch. What keyword search? I don't see one.

Comment 205: Curently my internet/WWW usage is higher than normal, because we're setting up our own WWW server. My 0.02$ worth on: 1) Inline pictures: Keep em small! 2) Movies: Downloading them usually takes a lot of time (big files) External viewers have to wait for the whole file before they can show them, this is in my opinion not true interactivity. Maybe WWW-viewers should include their proper mpeg-viewers so they can start showing 'the movie' while it is still being transfered (on the fly decoding etc...) 3) Sounds: The same remarks as for movies.

Comment 206: Using Mosaic on a DEC alpha, this took an annoyingly long time to scroll through. Don't know if I'd do it again if I knew what a pain it would be.

Comment 207: Sound possibilities are not as well supported as images at machine level. More useful in the future.

Comment 208: The main reason I prefer text to images, sounds, and movies is that my primary Web use is over a 14.4kbps SLIP link. Also, not all of the machines I use are correctly set up to handle movies.

Comment 209: Can I get a copy of this report? Thanks.

Comment 210: In the media assessement, I prefer small inline images that are links to the full ones.

Comment 211: About your survey: I don't think a scale of numbers is appropriate for some of your questions. For example, Retrieve Documents Heck, that's most of what you can do with Web clients. Also, I never used an Archie browser. I always use "archie -s string | mail `whoami`". I've never seen an Archie Browser. I'd be interested if you could point one out to me. --

Comment 212: I would like to see more integration in the search capabilities of archie, gopher, veronica, WAIS, and the like. I would REALLY like to see ONE search point where I could spawn a keyword search that would search ALL databases online (probably by spawning individual searches on all the archies, etc. known to it). In this way there would no longer be a problem with not knowing if the information you're looking for REALLY isn't out there, or if you just don't know which server to ask the question of.

Comment 213: i am a new user and have trouble figuring out where to look for pointers to databases.

Comment 214: Relative newcomer to WWW

Comment 215: Please Email me the data: We are interested in analyzing the data from your surveys. We have several PhD students working on Statistical Inference wiht interests in applying their skills for modeling the Internet ...

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Comment 217: The main thing with the Web, is of course, speed. I "come into" the web from a dedicated 56k line from a UNIX workstations LAN and always wonder what it would be like to have my access times an order of magnitude faster if I were on a T1 to the backbone. Still, the amount of usage I get out of a browser like Mosaic is immense.

Comment 218: I'd like to know where these survey results will be published

Comment 219: i spend more time constructing my server than browsing usually

Comment 220: I know too little about networking, I can not make good use of resources, I often go around in circles, I mostly find info about the network and not the resources I am looking for (and do not read this network info)

Comment 221: This is our first time using WWW, but we LOVE it!!

Comment 222: Re: Question 4 on Media Type Assessment My current environment does not support sound or moveies, so I dislike servers that require those capabilities. Once I upgrade my environment, that preference is likely to change. I expect I will like movies significantly, but I'm a bit wary of sound since prior experience has shown that people overuse it when they have it available. Re: Question 5 on General User Traits I had a great deal of difficulty picking a single category. My mode of use changes with what I am trying to do. I picked text based on the tasks I've done in the last week (which involved accessing several servers that were almost entirely text based)

Comment 223: This survey is too simple. I like appropriate media and search techniques.

Comment 224: Absent "technical aspects" I prefer the embedded graphics. However, spawned graphics often give an option of viewing which, given certain network connections, is preferred. Inline graphics can really gum up the works.

Comment 225: Thank you for doing the survey

Comment 226: Hope this is of use to someone. Just my $0.02.

Comment 227: 5: Depends on the size of the dataset to browse/search. - Big sets -> keyword search - Small sets -> browse.

Comment 228: Perhaps this will come up in a later part of the survey, but I'll mention it now: the biggest problem for me with non-text stuff is speed. I have only a 14.4K internet link and must usually run with embedded images turned off. I'd really like to see more use made of image compression. Sending JPEG instead of GIF, for instance, would be a big win for me. Perhaps the WWW protocol could be extended so that a server could send different formats depending on a client configuration setting? (ie, "I have a slow machine and a fast link, send GIF", or "vice versa, send JPEG").

Comment 229: Sometimes I would prefer to click on more than one button.

Comment 230: I've set up Lynx on all the machines here at the University of Washington and made it world executable. Parlty due to that, the system administrators are going to start supporyting it officially.

Comment 231: really hooked on the text mode - use lynx rather than mosaic even though mosaic is avaible on some of the machines that I use. Lots of time the pictures don't add much. Would rather use the time retrieving text.