Project lazerChair Participant Questionnaire Data

From this page, you can download tab-delimited plain-text files containing data tables for participant responses to two questionnaires taken as part of an experiment for Devin Gilbert's dissertation. Also included are print-outs of the Qualtrics forms where participants took the questionnaires so that you can make sense of the data tables. Participants remain completely anonymous; no personally identifying information is shared. All numeric Likert scores in the data tables were assigned such that leftmost or bottom-most selections in the survey correspond to a Likert score of "1" with the scale climbing to the right or upwards until the highest value in the scale.

For the post-experiment questionnaire, there are three versions of the data table with participant responses. "Clean 36" refers to only the 36 participants whose post-editing process data came out intact. Since the post-experiment questionnaire deals with participant perceptions of the user interface, data from participants is still important even if their process data was not salvagable. Therefore, data tables with just the "clean 36" as well as all participants who took the post-experiment questionnaire are included. The "trimmed" data table has excluded text-specific usefulness ratings of the highlighting feature for participants who were not assigned the highlighting condition for that specific text.

Honestly, none of this will really make a ton of sense unless you've read Devin Gilbert's dissertation or another report of the experiment. Actually, it would be really surprising if you found your way to this webpage without having read the dissertation :) The procedure for this experiment is detailed in Chapter 5 of Devin Gilbert's dissertation, and all results are further described and discussed in Chapter 6. Reference information is yet to come since the dissertation hasn't quite been published yet.