Acta Metallurgica Sinica(English letters) ›› 2014, Vol. 16 ›› Issue (2): 83-89.

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User-Centered Design of Questionnaire
——Application of in-depth interview and usability testing in quality control of questionnaire

  

  1. 1School of Digital Media and Design Arts, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications,
    Beijing 100876, China;2 Beijing Key Laboratory of Network System and Network
    Culture, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China
  • Received:2013-11-13 Online:2014-04-30

Abstract:

The authenticity and reliability of the questionnaire survey results is closely related to the quality of questionnaire design The existing questionnaire quality evaluation methods have some shortcomings, such as the narrow application or the strong subjectivity of questionnaires User-centered research methods applied to the process of questionnaire quality evaluation and optimization is proposed, and the two methods — in-depth interview and usability testing are introduced By evaluating and optimizing the “user research requirement evaluation questionnaire” of a company and comparing with the traditional methods, the effectiveness of the introduced methods is confirmed In conclusion, as user-centered research methods, in-depth interview and usability testing can obviously improve questionnaire design process and should be a significant section in questionnaire design

Key words: questionnaire design, user research, user-centered design, questionnaire quality

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