| People and Computers XIX - The Bigger Picture: Proceedings of Hci 2005 2006 Edition Contributor(s): McEwan, Tom (Editor), Gulliksen, Jan (Editor), Benyon, David (Editor) |
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ISBN: 184628192X ISBN-13: 9781846281921 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $161.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2005 Annotation: This volume contains the full papers presented at HCI 2005, the 19th Annual Conference of the British HCI Group, a specialist group of the BCS. "People and Computers XIX" includes leading edge discussions outlining the latest research results and novel systems from the foremost research and development groups and laboratories throughout the UK and Europe. This year's areas are: - Human-centred Interaction Design how can we optimise creativity and exploit novel techniques, such as probes, in improving our understanding, analysis and design to meet human needs - Communities of the Future in an era of ambient pervasive, ubiquitous and mobile computing, how do we support the evolution of communities, their protocols and manners, the sense of self-management, interdependency, responsilibility and support - Industrial Strength Solutions and Tools robust usability methods, light-touch but effective methodologies, alignment with modern business such as marketing, change management and software engineering, to achieve quantifiable ROI |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Computers | Computer Science - Computers | Information Technology - Computers | Interactive & Multimedia |
| Dewey: 004.019 |
| LCCN: 2005472663 |
| Series: BCS Conference |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6.24" W x 9.12" (1.72 lbs) 510 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: As a new medium for questionnaire delivery, the Internet has the potential to revolutionize the survey process. Online (Web-based) questionnaires provide several advantages over traditional survey methods in terms of cost, speed, appearance, flexibility, functionality, and usability Bandilla et al. 2003; Dillman 2000; Kwak & Radler 2002]. Online-questionnaires can provide many capabilities not found in traditional paper-based questionnaires: they can include pop-up instructions and error messages; they can incorporate links; and it is possible to encode difficult skip patterns making such patterns virtually invisible to respondents. Despite this, and the emergence of numerous tools to support online-questionnaire creation, current electronic survey design typically replicates the look-and-feel of pap- based questionnaires, thus failing to harness the full power of the electronic survey medium. A recent environmental scan of online-questionnaire design tools found that little, if any, support is incorporated within these tools to guide questionnaire design according to best-practice Lumsden & Morgan 2005]. This paper briefly introduces a comprehensive set of guidelines for the design of online-questionnaires. It then focuses on an informal observational study that has been conducted as an initial assessment of the value of the set of guidelines as a practical reference guide during online-questionnaire design. 2 Background Online-questionnaires are often criticized in terms of their vulnerability to the four standard survey error types: namely, coverage, non-response, sampling, and measurement errors. |