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Carnegie Mellon University, HCII | As of 5/2006 | Free |
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hrgold.com | As of 12/2004 | $10/survey/year + $1/participant |
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SurveyMonkey.com | As of 12/2004 | $19.95/month + $.05/survey response over 1000 |
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Perseus Development Corporation | 6 | $495, $995 |
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Apian Software, Inc. | 3.0 | $1195+, $550+, $595+ |
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MarketTools, Inc. | As of 12/2004 | $599/year + $200/5000 survey responses over 10,000 |
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Product | Creators | Version Tested | Cost | Free Demo | Open Source | Service Response Time [Notes] | Web | Handheld | Paper | Can use your own server [Notes] | Easy Installer To Your Own Site | Public Server | Server Platforms | Optional SSL Encryption [Notes] | Server Technology Used [Notes] | User Interface | Development Platforms | WYSIWYG [Notes] | Clustering [Notes] | Will work on >95% of web browsers [Notes] | Assistance Phrasing Questions [Notes] | Question Library [Notes] | Researched Scales [Notes] | Larger Radio Buttons And Checkboxes [Notes] | Links On Radio Button/Checkbox Text [Notes] | Customizable Look&Feel (including Radio Buttons and Checkboxes) [Notes] | Background Colors By Question [Notes] | Pop-up help for questions [Notes] | Ability to Add Arbitrary Code [Notes] | Repeated Measures [Notes] | Lets Users Finish Surveys Later [Notes] | any technique [Notes] | in GUI | by script | immediate updates on webpage [Notes] | any technique [Notes] | in GUI | by script | by script [Notes] | any technique [Notes] | In GUI [Notes] | By Script [Notes] | any technique [Notes] | in GUI | by script | Short Answer [Notes] | Long Answer [Notes] | Multiple Choice Single Selection [Notes] | Multiple Choice Multiple Selection [Notes] | Simple Checkbox [Notes] | Scale [Notes] | Rank Order [Notes] | Allocation question (total sum) [Notes] | Free-form styled questions [Notes] | Insert Images [Notes] | Insert Movies [Notes] | Populating Question Text With Previous Answers [Notes] | any technique [Notes] | in GUI | in Script | any technique [Notes] | in GUI |
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What is it?
The Web Survey Toolbox is a free open source tool for collecting and gathering research on many topics, surveys, project team time, and others. You can set up your own web server at your site to keep your information protected.
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Features
- Run Web Surveys. Using Web Survey Toolbox, you can track, administer, and run surveys.
- Track Issues/Bugs/Tasks. Integrated with your own Bugzilla or JIRA.
- Collect Research Findings. Gather points from papers, Heuristic Evaluations, Ethnographies, User Testing, etc., into one location.
- Progress Reports: Get statistical predictions on when the project will be finished. With one click, see an agile report that shows how much work remains to be done on any particular project. The report will run a statistical regression analysis to predict when the project will finish.
- Draw diagrams on the web. Draw any kind of Storyboards, Task Analyses, State Machines, etc.
- Analyze most frequently discovered problem areas. Coming Soon: Look at reports and graphs of your problems sorted by topic and area.
