MRA 2010 Boston - Rich Media in Online Surveys

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Recent Findings on Using Rich Media in Online SurveysBernie Malinoff element54Jeffrey Henning, PRCVoviciThis presentation will explore some hotly debated questions about data consistency, and what respondents are actually doing with our online surveys — spanning the most widely used 'radio buttons', to the more recently introduced 'rich media' types.Researchers concerned about declining online survey response rates have rushed to embrace "rich media" (aka Web 2.0) as a way to enliven the survey taking process and reignite respondent engagement. Yet engagement is not the same as entertainment. When can rich media foster engagement, reliability and validity and when can rich media damage it? Bernie Malinoff, CEO of element54, and Jeffrey Henning, founder of Vovici, have both independently conducted research-on-research studies comparing "traditional" online questionnaires to "rich media" online survey formats. Both have consistently seen dramatic variations in results.

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RecentFindingsonUsingRichMediainOnlineSurveys

BernieMalinoffJeffreyHenning,PRC

PanningforRespondents

EngagedRespondentsareGolden

LosingRespondentsAlongtheWay

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%

Engaged

Completed

ParRcipated

Invited

Source: Vovici 

ButisaGhostTownourFuture?

PaperSurveysInspiredtheWeb

MaybeTechnologyistheAnswer?

WebSurveysasEntertainment

WhatCanWeTaketotheBank?

ELEMENT54R&D

DriversofSurveyCooperaRon

RespondentCooperaRonSurveyInvite

QuesRonnaireLength/IncenRve

TopicInterest

Panel/ClientReputaRon

VisualAppeal

Typicalrespondentexperience

ResponsePa^erns/Flatlining

"Engagement&

Enjoyment"

OnscreenLayout

RespondentExpectaRons

Divergence/VarietyofNewQuesRonTypes

Sources: Spyglass Solutions/2x4 Research & Consulting 

‘BlackBox’PhaseofOnlineDesign

FinalQuesRonnaire

ResearcherGivesto

Programming

ProgrammingDeliversa“Link”

Researcher/ClientReview

ProjectKick‐offBriefingPlanningSampleDraj(s)...

InterviewingCoding

TabulaRonAnalysisReport

‘RespondentEngagement’ConvergingIssues

DataConsistency

RespondentUsability

MajorR&DIniRaRves DataConsistency RespondentUsability

Balanced5CellDesign:2000TotalInterviews

RadioBu^on

Anchor@‘1’

Anchor@‘5’

Anchor@’10’

Experimental

QuesRonnaireCoverage

StudyHighlights

+8%overstatedpast7dayconsumpRon‐slidervs.radiobu^on

‐8%understatedissueimportance‐slidervs.radiobu^on

36%variancehowojenbrushteeth‐slidervs.radiobu^on

eg‐NetPromoterScore(NPS)

GivenDifferences,WhatistheBenchmark?

RadioBu^on

Default,EasierStandards

Sliders

Scales/AnchorsMa^er

DragnDrop

CauRon:ContentsHot

SurveyCompleRonTime&RespondentEnjoyment

RichMediavs.RadioBu^onQuesRons

EyesDon’tLie‐ResearchProtocol

EyeTracking

Recording

Interviewing

EyeTracking

"1.0vs.2.0"UsingEyeTrackingforSurveyUsability

... to better understand the destination, by examining the journey.

EyeTracking‐'AreasofInterest'

Inferencevs.InstrucRon

Inferencevs.InstrucRon42%didnotreadthequesRon

33%didnotreadthe"tradiRonal"

quesRon

Don’tInterruptMeWhenI’mThinking

ErrorPrevenRon&Recovery

Thisrespondentneeded5minutestocompletethisquesRonandencountered3errormessages.

ThequesRonis‐howdowetreatthedatawhichemergesfromsomeonewhotriedhisng"next",andthenaddedorchangeddatatoescape?

ErrorPrevenRon&Recovery

RespondentinterpretedtheerrormessagelocaRonasaguidetowheretoputtheanswer.RecommendaRon‐havesomewaytohighlighttheenRrerow,avoidinganyvisualcuesorbiases.

MinimumStandards‐eg:HorizontalLayout

Horizontallayoutensuresconsistentviewing,regardlessofscreensize

EqualRaRngsfor‘Engagement’Metrics

1.08.20

8.86

7.02

2.08.25

8.85

6.56

SurveyEnjoyment

EaseofUse

DesiretoRepeat

SexyQuesRons,DangerousResults?ConsideraRons

1.  ThereisnoBe^er,Faster,Cheaper‐youcanonlypick2.2.  Wemustreturntotheusabilityprincipleswhichguided

papersurveydesign,notCATIdesign,tomaximizeconfidenceinourdata,andbusinessdecisions.

3.  TherearewaystomakeallquesRons/surveysmoreappealing,intuiRveandfuture‐relevant.

4.  'ResponsibleInnovaRon'iskey.5.  Asanindustry,wemustdeviseandreinforcebest

pracRcesforonlineresearchinterfaces,likewehaveforsomanyelementsoftheresearchprocess.

TipsforMigraRngtoRichMedia•  DiscreRonisthebe^erpartofvalor•  SplitballottestrichmediaquesRonsagainsttradiRonalquesRonstoidenRfydifferences

•  Visualchoicesintroducebias,especiallyformoreabstractchoices

TechnologyisNottheOnlyAnswer

TipsforEngagement•  Keepthesurveyshort•  MakethequesRonsinteresRng

•  Minimizetheuseofmatrixes

•  Userichmediainaconsideredmanner

CreaRngEngagingSurveysisHard

WeWelcomeYourQuesRonsBernieMalinoffPresident

element54

h^p://twi^er.com/BernieMalinoff

Bernie.malinoff@element‐54.com

(514)833‐2268

VoviciBlog

Vovici ’s Jeffrey Henning blogs about survey research, EFM, voice of the customer and online feedback. 

blog.vovici.com 

JeffreyHenningFounder&VP,Strategy

Vovici

h^p://twi^er.com/jhenning

Jhenning@vovici.com

(800)787‐8755

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ContactInformaRonBernieMalinoff

•  bernie.malinoff@element‐54.com

•  514‐833‐2268•  @berniemalinoff

•  h^p://www.element‐54.com

JeffreyHenning,PRC

•  jhenning@vovici.com

•  781‐848‐8100x550•  @jhenning

•  h^p://www.vovici.com