Tag Archives: survey

User testing on Mechanical Turk [how-to]

11 Feb 2010 – 10:44

This is a pretty high-level summary (e.g., not that detailed) of how I create and run a new survey on Mechanical Turk. Since people have lots of different ways of using Mechanical Turk, this how-to may or may not be for you. I’ve also noticed that nearly every survey or questionnaire I put on Mechanical [...]

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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 [...]

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Why people can’t be trusted: What we say is not what we do

10 Aug 2009 – 14:01

I’ve been reading Bill Tancer’s book Click. He works for a company called HitWise that has access to millions of search terms from across the web — by finding trends in these queries, he claims that we can learn about people’s actual motivations, interests, behaviors, and, even, fears. A word before I go on: I generally [...]

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Do you drink coffee? Take our survey!

1 Aug 2009 – 14:04

Following the exciting brainstorming around the betacup at Overlap last weekend, our team has created a survey to better understand the practices of coffee drinking. If you’re a coffee (or tea!) drinker and have a moment to complete it, please do! (This has also been cross-posted on Mechanical Turk to get a wider diversity of [...]

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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 [...]

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