Graphics, Visualization, and Usability Center

Usage Information Survey Form

Survey will resume September 1994

Information:

This survey is for questions about your use of the World Wide Web (WWW).

Primary Questions:

  1. Frequency:

    2. On the average, how often do you use your WWW browser?

    1 to 4 times/day 5 to 8 times/day over 9 times/day

    few times a week once a week once a month

  2. Motivation:

    3. I use the WWW browser for ( Check all that apply)

    Education Browsing Research

  3. Typical Activities:

    4. Please select the number that reflects how often you perform each activity.

    Retrieve Documents (i.e. use the WWW browser to get certain documents)

    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 
    Never            Sometimes        Always

    WWW Browser instead of the gopher browser?

    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 
    Never            Sometimes        Always

    WWW browser instead of the wais browser?

    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 
    Never            Sometimes        Always

    WWW Broswer instead of the archie browser?

    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 
    Never            Sometimes        Always

    View Current Research Abstracts (e.g. who's doing what where)

    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 
    Never            Sometimes        Always

    Explore the Internet

    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 
    Never            Sometimes        Always

    Retrieve Weather Information

    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 
    Never            Sometimes        Always

    Access Reference Materials (e.g. webster, libraries, etc.)

    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 
    Never            Sometimes        Always

    Access Publishers, Periodicals, Bookstores, etc.

    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 
    Never            Sometimes        Always

    Access Current Research Activities (e.g. conferences, NSF announcements, etc.)

    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 
    Never            Sometimes        Always

  4. Media Type Assesment

    5. Please select the number that reflects how well you prefer each media type, disregarding transfer time, and other technical aspects.

    Text

    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

    Hate              Neutral          Love

    Embedded Images (i.e. viewed as part of the document)

    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 
    Hate              Neutral          Love

    Spawned Images (i.e. viewed by xv, phototshop, etc)

    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 
    Hate              Neutral          Love

    Sounds

    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 
    Hate              Neutral          Love

    Movies

    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 
    Hate              Neutral          Love

    The ability to search by keywords in a database

    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 
    Hate              Neutral          Love

  5. General User Traits

    6. Would you classify yourself as a search, text, or visually oriented user?

    Keyword Search (prefer to query databases rather than browse)
    Text (perfer to see text, rather than images or do keyword searches)
    Visual (prefer images, movies, etc)

    How many hours a week do you explore the Internet using your WWW browser?

    0 to 5/week 6 to 10/week over 10/week

    Please add your comments here.

James Pitkow
Graphics, Visualization and Usability Center
Georgia Institute of Technology
pitkow@cc.gatech.edu