This survey will help us (itsme) to understand the impact of the emulator on our community. This is an important step in our design process: our aim is to collect and elaborate the feedback coming from this tool to improve the final product we are working on which is the itsme operating system. The survey requires 5-10 minutes to be completed, thank you in advance for your time. Note: please do not press ENTER when writing in free-text boxes, as it would submit your form!

How did you hear about the itsme emulator?

Direct communication from someone in the staff
Conference or seminar
Facebook
LinkedIn
Search engine (Google, MSN, Yahoo, ...)
Other websites

Presentation and tutorials

Please express your opinion on the way we presented the emulator.

Website introduction

Is our presentation page for the emulator clear in explaining why and how the emulator should be used?
Absolutely not, after reading it I had not understood what you meant
Not really, I understood what you meant, but not why it should be meaningful to me
Yes, the page is quite clear... maybe a bit boring
Yes, the page is very clear and I liked it a lot!

Video tutorial

Is our video presentation of the emulator clear in explaining why and how the emulator should be used?
Absolutely not, after seeing it I had not understood what you meant
Not really, I understood what you meant, but not why it should be meaningful to me
Yes, the video is quite clear... maybe a bit boring
Yes, the video is very clear and I liked it a lot!

Social computing on itsme.it

What of the features of the itsme website have you used BEFORE trying the emulator? Check all that you used.
Comments
Bookmarks
Private messages
Fans
None of the above

The itsme emulator

Now please tell us how much have you interacted with the emulator and what do you think about it.

How much have you used the emulator?

Please specify how many times and to what extent you used the emulator
I never tried the emulator
I tried it once and just for a short time, just to see how it looks like
I tried it only once but tested all the features
I tried it a few times (2-5) but did not test the functionalities extensively
I tried it a few times (2-5) and tested all the features
I tried it for a long time (more than 5 times in more than a week) but still have not tested all features
I tried it for a long time (more than 5 times in more than a week) and I have tested all features extensively

People

Did you use the emulator to start building relations in our community? Check all that apply.
No, why should I have tried? I have no interest
No, who should I have added?
No, but I would have liked to
Yes, but only for testing it
Yes, I looked for people I knew in the community
Yes, I got contacts from writing messages

Messages channel

Did you use the emulator for private messaging? Check all that apply.
No, because I had no one to write to
Yes, but I only wrote to myself
Yes, but I wrote only to one person
Yes, and I wrote to more than one person
.
This feature is useless
This feature works well enough
I like the idea of contacting community members from this tool
This feature requires technical improvement (it does not work well)
.

Posts channel

Did you read and write posts from the emulator? Check all that apply.
No, I did not play with posts
I just read the sample posts I found in my venues
I had bookmarks from the website already read
I wrote a draft... just a test
I wrote a draft and got it published on itsme website!

Media channel

Did you use the media channel? Check all that apply.
No, I did not play with media
Yes, I previewed what I found in my venues
Yes, I previewed media from the posts I bookmarked
Yes, I added some media to my drafts and previewed them
.
This channel is pretty useless
It\'s nice to have media easily accessible
.

RSS

Did you use RSS within the emulator? Check all that apply.
No, I did not use it
Yes, but only tried to expand what I found in my venues
Yes, I looked into feeds and previewed some posts
.
I did not add any feed
I added some feed from the community ones
I used the search engine to add a feed
I entered a new feed manually
.
This feature is useless, I have other/better ways to read RSS
This feature is nice, but I would not use this way to interact with feeds
I like this feature!
.

Highlight

What do you think about the way we visualize related items from different channels?
It is a useless feature
It might be useful, but not for me
It is nice and useful
It can be useful but it should be different (please tell us how, if you have any idea)

Final comments

Please leave us your general opinion on the itsme emulator, or any other thought you want to share with us.