[IxDA Discuss] Using scales for user input/feedback

[Julie Cabinaw]

I realized in retrospect that I picked the poorest example question to
share, as we've reviewed all the others and had sent this one back for
rewriting to the content team already. Plus the bigger picture is
necessary to context. My apologies.

 

However, I am really interested in this concept of a quadrant
approach...the trick gets to multiple statements that have to be
evaluated from a medical perspective here.

 

i.e. -- the complete list of examples (including the bad first one which
doesn't "balance" well with its opposite partner, but...) is here, which
might provide a better sense of the complete scenario, albeit it not
properly designed for user presentation yet.

 

http://usability.healthwise.org/decisionpoint/breastcancer/index.htm#per
sonalfeelings 

 

Thanks for the food for thought!

 

Julie

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Trip O'Dell [mailto:tripodell at mac.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 12:17 PM
To: IxDA Discuss
Cc: Julie Cabinaw
Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Using scales for user input/feedback

 

Hi Julie - really interesting question.

 

I'm not sure if there is a good way to rate those statements in the  

way you are proposing because you're essentially trying to measure  

two different things with the same metric.  Specifically you're  

asking the patient to measure their level of agreement with a  

statement that is measuring two qualities - 1) Inclination between  

two procedures and 2) the patient's level of anxiety.

 

This approach is an artifact of paper-based inventories used off  

line. One of the limitation of that approach is that its forced to  

use generic statements and measure agreement. Online you can give the  

user an opportunity to map their persona on a simple ajax or flash  

widget (see attached example)