CSAQ: Current Status: December 2, 1999

Current Status of Project on Navigation of CSAQs

Whole/Part/Index. We finished running participants from the University of Maryland Department of Psychology Subjects Pool. Final data analysis and report will be written during the next month.
The best of the breed has been modified to include status checks for completion of sections.
Start Survey
From Records to Questionnaire. We are still designing a second experiment in which subjects will be given a booklet of information on an organization and asked to complete a questionnaire for that organization. The organization is a student club. It has proved to be a larger task to generate a student organization.

Student Organization Survey
Student Organization Records

Conditional Jumps. We are currently looking at different kinds of jumps and their implications for design and navigation on the WWW.

Preliminary diagrams of conditional jump patterns and surveys using a form-based and item-based approaches.

Linear Versus Tabular Forms. Linear presentations of items help to control the flow responses but have the disadvantages of taking up a lot of screen space and limiting cross item comparisons. We are currently developing a list of the congitive issues and trade-offs between linear and tabular forms and developing some prototype questionnaires.