HCI 541

Winter 2025

Craig Miller

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Weekly Notes

• Week 1
• Week 2
• Week 3
• Week 4
• Week 5
• Week 6
• Week 7
• Week 8
• Week 9
• Week 10

Assignments

• Assignment 1
• Assignment 2
• Team Project 1
• Team Project 2
• Final Project

Question Design

Guidelines for common problems

• Avoid ambiguous wording (includes careless use of and/or)
• Ask questions that can be accurately answered (reduce time frame)
• Minimize judgment
• Maximize response usability

Types

• Open response
• Closed response

Types of data (typically closed response)

• Nominal
• Ordinal
• Interval
• Ratio (true zero)

Issues for response measures

Discuss Adapted Figure 6.1 in Fowler

Discussion questions

• How do CASM stages map to guidelines?
• What are examples or strategies for the guidelines? (consider the course online activity survey)
• Cognitive walkthrough for survey design?
• Heuristic evaluation for survey design?
• How does Qualtrics evaluate questions in a survey?