Online Surveys

Wouldn't it be great to have an administrative assistant who would collate, transcribe, summarize, and document the results of your questionnaires? That was the impetus behind the Ovo Studios Questionnaire software.

Preparing Your Surveys

Use the Ovo Logger Questionnaire Editor to develop your surveys (GUI shown at right). You can ask the following types of questions:

Instruction/Introduction pages.
Short Answer
Bulleted Answers (e.g. What were the three best things about this system?)
Essay
Likert (includes ability to provide custom likert labels, as well as the ability to counterbalance statistical values)
Multiple choice, Pick one or Pick many
Matrix (a multi-faceted multiple choice question, e.g. a list of systems crossed with a list of attributes)

In addition to the question types above, the Questionnaire software also automatically generates the SUS Survey format, developed by DEC. In the post-test, the Ovo Logger analysis software automatically analyses SUS data and reports the SUS score, both by user and across users.

Questions are grouped into sections which can be presented to participants in any order to support counter-balanced designs. For qualitative questions, it is also possible to ask the user for additional comments

Administering Your Surveys

The Ovo Studios Questionnaire Player is run using a thin-client interface, hosted within an Internet Explorer window. This survey can be accessed from anywhere on your corporate network, and automatically saves results to your Ovo Studios Questionnaire database.

Sample Survey Presentation

Generating Results

When your test is over, the Ovo Logger software appropriately collates, formats, and averages user responses. Participants responses are collated; and summarized; means and standard deviations are calculated; and frequencies are reported. For subjective questions, such as short answer, essay, or bulleted answer, the Ovo Logger software also automatically generates a word frequency analysis from user responses, which can point toward themes in response across users.

The amount of time you can save using this tool to administer and summarize questionnaires range in estimate from three (3) to five (5) hours.

Sample Survey Results from the HTML-Based Usability Report