todd@net1.ucsd.edu (Todd Goodman) (11/14/87)
Questionnaire: Macintosh and HyperCard User Survey
We are students at the University of California, San
Diego and are working on a project to determine what problems
users have while using the Macintosh User Interface and
the HyperCard interface. If possible we would appreciate it
if you could fill out this questionnaire and then return it
to todd@net1.ucsd.edu. Some alternate mail paths are listed
below. Or simply type 'R' if you're using rn.
Thank You.
Dan Seguin
Todd Goodman
Jeff Shanberg
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Please answer the following questions:
1) Have you ever used a MacIntosh before?
yes no
1.1) If no, please skip to end of questionnaire.
2) What is your level of experience?
beginner casual user advanced user expert
3) Do you use the Finder as your primary interface?
yes no
3.1) If no, what do you use? Why?
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4) Do you use the finder with other file manipulation
tools (i.e. FastFinder, etc.)?
yes no
4.1) If no, are you satisfied with the finder?
yes no
4.2) If yes, which ones do you use and in which situa-
tions do you use them?
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5) Do you use all of the features of the finder?
yes no
6) Which features do you use the most?
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7) What features would you like to see added and why?
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8) Thinking back, what was the first problem you encoun-
tered with the finder?
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9) How would you rate the finder overall?
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
(poor) (excellent)
10) Please rate the ease of use of the following (where 1
is difficult and 5 is easy) and explain why you chose
that rating:
10.1) Copying files: 1 2 3 4 5
Why?
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10.2) Moving files: 1 2 3 4 5
Why?
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10.3) Printing files: 1 2 3 4 5
Why?
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10.4) Swapping diskettes: 1 2 3 4 5
Why?
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10.5) Finding files: 1 2 3 4 5
Why?
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10.6) Running applications: 1 2 3 4 5
Why?
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10.7) Cut & Paste between applications: 1 2 3
4 5
Why?
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11) Do you use Hypercard?
yes no
11.1) If yes, what percent of your Mac use is
devoted to Hypercard?
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11.2) If no, please skip to end of questionnnaire.
12) What do you use it for (phone book, games, database
applications)? Why?
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13) Would you like to have the ability to run other appli-
cations from Hypercard?
yes no
13.1) Why?
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14) How often do you leave Hypercard to perform finder-type
operations?
never occassionally often too much
15) If this was available, but it required more memory,
would you be interested?
yes no
16) Would you prefer a HyperCard interface over a finder-
type interface if the Hypercard interface provided the
same functionality as the finder?
yes no
17) How would you rate HyperCard overall?
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
(poor) (excellent)
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19) If you have used the finder, did your experience with
it aid in using HyperCard?
yes no haven't used the finder
20) Do you program in HyperTalk (the HyperCard scripting
language)?
yes no
20.1) If yes, do you follow the HyperCard design
guidelines? Why or why not?
yes no
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Our collective sanity thanks you from the bottom of our cerebellum.