Your participation requested for an academic survey

Dear forum users,

We are doing an academic research project on online service quality. We would be grateful if you could spare 3-5 minutes and complete our online questionnaire. The link for the questionnaire is provided below.

http://www.uwe.ac.uk/bbs/osq/

Thank you for your help and time.

P.S. aves911 gave me permission to post this message.

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EDIT:

We're doing a follow-up survey to finish this doctoral research. It has been decided by the faculty administration that one of the repsondents will win a Free 6GB iPod Mini (including free shipping) for her/his participation - this is open to everyone worldwide.

There are no open-ended questions in this questionnaire so it can be completed by only clicks.

There are two questionnaires: one about Hotmail, the other about Yahoo! Mail. These two websites were chosen because they are popular sites but this research is purely academic so data or results will not be shared with Microsoft Corporation or Yahoo! Inc.

Please enter your email only if you want to take part in the free iPod draw. Collected emails will not be used for any other purpose. When data collection finishes, the winner will be determined and contacted by email.

Link to Hotmail quesionnaire:
http://www.uwe.ac.uk/bbs/osq/h.html

Link to Yahoo! Mail questionnaire:
http://www.uwe.ac.uk/bbs/osq/y.html

Please visit this link for more information about the research:
http://www.uwe.ac.uk/bbs/osq

You can use the email on questionnaire pages if you have any questions.

Thank you for your time and participation.

41 and over?

dammit, I appear to be officially lumped in with the geriatrics

Sorry. Age categories were taken from websites' registration forms.

41 and over?

dammit, I appear to be officially lumped in with the geriatrics

Thank you everyone. I'm almost finished with my data collection but I still need about 100 more participants to achieve my target sample size.

I hope there are a few other people who wouldn't mind participating.

What do the writers of this survey intend to do w/ the information they gather??

It's part of a doctorate project.

After you've finished collecting data could you tell me what the scope of your research is?

The aim of the prject is to develop an instrument to measure a website's service quality.

part of a doctorate program? Like part of a dissertation or what?

part of a thesis

Done! Keep in touch! Tell us how it goes. I’m a grad student myself.

Fear not, for -Davo has heeded your call, and has provided his wisdom.

Ditto. I've provided -Davo's wisdom also.

:D

Ditto. I've provided -Davo's wisdom also.

:D

Only us Australians can provide wisdom that great, you can't provide -Davos wisdom, only I and other Australians can.

(Man, I hope you aren't Australian or I will look like quite the fool...)

Fair enough, I only provided SUB-Davo wisdom.

Does it count or do I get any credit if I've VISITED Australia?

I took the Hotmail one - very thorough. I did notice, however, that the question "Hotmail is accessible from different platforms/browsers" was asked twice...

All the best on the thesis :thumbsup:

I took the Hotmail one - very thorough. I did notice, however, that the question "Hotmail is accessible from different platforms/browsers" was asked twice...

All the best on the thesis :thumbsup:

Thanks for pointing that out but that question was put twice to make sure that people don't fill in the questionnaire randomly without reading to take part in the draw. With that question we can check who genuinely completed questionnaire...

Thanks for pointing that out but that question was put twice to make sure that people don't fill in the questionnaire randomly without reading to take part in the draw. With that question we can check who genuinely completed questionnaire...

Gotcha.

I hope I didn't give two different answers... :uhoh:

Gotcha.

I hope I didn't give two different answers... :uhoh:

It's ok as long as the two answers are *close*.

Man, that was a long questionaire. I took the hotmail one, mainly because I used to use it. Now I use Gmail and would never go back to hotmail. Instead of the 100s of spam emails I got with Hotmail, I get 0 with Gmail, and its free with alot of storage space.:biggrin:

So, when do I get my I-pod? :wink:

I took both of them for you. I can’t believe how long ago it was when I took the first one. Talk about a blast from the past! Anyway, I hope your professor likes what you’re doing. And again, keep in touch! Come back & tell us how it went when you submit your thesis!

H01y FuX0rzz!!! Taranaki's back!!!!!!!!!!!

look at the date yo.

doh!

H01y FuX0rzz!!! Taranaki's back!!!!!!!!!!!

What’s the story behind that anyway :confused: ? I gotta` admit, I never did liked his smug, condescending attitude. Was he asked to leave or got sick of everyone hating him or something? :dunno:

He left under his own will.

No one tried to stop him though. He is still supposedly a mod.

I have no memory of posting in this thread, and saying that. But I did the hotmail questionair, because I'm on a break from pwning noobs in World Of Warcraft (or getting pwned by uber gamers)

For those who want to participate later: if you use both Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail, please complete the questionnaire for Yahoo. I received far less responses for Yahoo. Thanks.

The winner of the iPod (among 300 participants) is determined by a draw:

Winner: rich@for____.org (I don't want to write the exact emails)

1st substitute: g522y1____@_____.com.au

2nd substitute: preludeto___@____.com

I've contacted the winner.

I'd like to thank all participants again for their contribution...

Damnit.