Brynn Marie Evans

Tag Archives: research

When is a questionnaire just a survey?

26 Aug 2009 – 22:17

I asked a question on twitter today: Do you consider “surveys” to be different from “questionnaires”? If so, how?
This question struck me as I was editing a paper where I was describing a survey (or is it a questionnaire?) that we used to collect data from Mechanical Turk. I was about to use the terms [...]

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User Needs during Social Search

15 Oct 2008 – 14:38

(This was also posted on the ASC blog.)
There has been a lot of buzz around social search in the online tech community, but I am largely disappointed by the new tools and services I’ve encountered. It’s not that these sites are unusable, but that they each seem to take on a different conception of what [...]