Feedback to the Sphakia Survey Internet Edition

CLOSING DATE FOR FEEDBACK: 31 DECEMBER 2000

Thank you for requesting the feedback questionnaire for the Sphakia Survey Internet Edition. The Sphakia project and ACDT are committed to creating and maintaining an accurate, user-friendly, attractive, and rigorous web site and we appreciate your help with this. This questionnaire should take you about 10 - 15 minutes to complete. If you are short of time, please complete the first section only.

If possible, we would prefer to receive the completed questionnaire as an email attachment to acdt@oucs.ox.ac.uk but otherwise a print copy should be posted to ACDT - Sphakia, OUCS, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN, UK. For enquiries, please telephone Sarah Porter or Jenny Newman on +44 (0)1865 273221. Email: 

Warm thanks once again for your input. 

Sophie Clarke, Lucia Nixon, Sarah Porter, Simon Price
University of Oxford

I. Your impressions of the Sphakia Survey Internet Edition

1.	Were your overall experiences of using the Sphakia Internet Edition mostly:

* very positive    
* quite positive 
* neutral  
* quite negative   
* very negative

Please explain your answer:

2.	Would you use the Sphakia Survey Internet Edition again?

* yes, definitely 
* probably 
* not sure  
* probably not   
* definitely not

Please explain your answer:

3.	Would you recommend the Sphakia Survey Internet Edition to other people? If so, to whom?

* Students
* Researchers
* Archaeologists
* Teaching staff
* Others (please specify)

II. Your Background (optional section)

4.	Name: 

5.	Job title: researcher / teacher / student / IT professional / archaeologist / other (please specify):

6.	Institutional affiliation (if appropriate): 

7.	Address:

8.	Email address: 

9.	Telephone number:

10.	 How much previous experience do you have with using a Web browser (e.g. Internet Explorer or Netscape)?

* a lot 
* some 
* not a lot 
* none

11.	Please give some examples of web sites that you have previously used for research:

III. Technical set-up

12.	Did you use the Sphakia Survey Internet Edition from

* Home
* Work
* Other (please specify)

13.	What type of computer did you use?

* Apple Macintosh (please give model details of possible, e.g. Power PC 5500/225 or G3; please specify MB of RAM if possible)
* Windows PC (please specify MB of RAM and processor speed if possible)
* Unix machine
*Other (please specify) 

14.	Screen resolution (if known)

* 600 X 480
* 800 X 600
* 1024 X 768
* Other (please specify)
* Not known

15.	What web browser software did you use?
* Internet Explorer version no. ____ (e.g. 4.0)
* Netscape Navigator/Communicator version no. ____ (e.g. 4.7)
* Other browser (please specify) _____________________

16.	How is your computer connected to the Internet?
* Modem 
* Institutional network
* Do not know

IV. Your use of the Sphakia Survey Internet Edition

17.	Why did you look at the Sphakia Survey Internet Edition?

* Followed up an email message that I was sent about it
* Am / have been involved in the project
* Web search produced a link to it
* Other (please give details)

Home page

18.	The home page is intended to welcome you to the site. What were your first impressions of the home page?
* Very good
* Good
* Average
* Quite bad
* Bad

19.	Does the home page give you an impression of the purpose of the site?

* too much information  
* right amount of information   
* too little or wrong information (please specify what other information would be useful)

Please explain your answer in as much detail as possible

Next steps

20.	What section did you go to from the opening page?

* Read the Introduction
* Background section
* Case Study
* Zones, Regions and Sites
* Research
* About

21.	How did you get to the other section?
* Used the top menu-bar
* Clicked on the link by the description
* Clicked on one of the coins
* Other

22.	Why did you use this section first?

* Appears first in the list
* It looked the most interesting
* It was most relevant to my query
* Other (please give details)

Comments on the section(s) that you explored:

Databases

23.	Did you search any of the databases on the web site e.g. the site database?

* No
* Site database
* Region 8 small finds
* Region 8 ceramics

24.	Why did you use this database / these databases?

V. Other aspects of the site

Help

25.	If you used the Help system on the web site (the Help system contains information about how to use the site, the index map, help for searching the databases etc.), please give comments on this section?

26.	Are there other instructions which you think should have been supplied to make it easier to use the site?

* yes  
* no

Please give details

27.	How easy was it to find the different sections when you needed to?

* very easy    
* quite easy   
* not very easy    
* difficult

Please give details of any particular problems encountered:

Images

28.	What did you think of the images in the site, were they the correct size, colour etc.?

Navigation

29.	The Sphakia web site contains a lot of information. How easy was it to find the information that you required?

* Very  easy
* Easy
* OK
* Difficult
* Very difficult

Comments:

30.	Did you think the proportion of texts to images on the web site was:

* About right
* Too many images
* Too much text

Comments:

31.	Please make any other comments that you would like to add about the site:

Please email this questionnaire to acdt@oucs.ox.ac.uk by 31 December 2000 or post it to ACDT - Sphakia, OUCS, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN, UK.

Many thanks for your help: it will help us to build a better web site.