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1 Your profile    
1.1 Company/institution:  
1.2 Name:  
1.3 Function:  
1.4 Age:  
1.5 Nationality:  
1.6 E-mail:  
1.7 Do you want to be kept up-to-date on the results of this survey and my thesis?  
yes
no
1.8 Company or institution's principal activity:  
1.9 Do you use a computer at work?  
1.10 If you use a computer, do you know which type?
(multiple boxers may be checked)		  
PC with Windows 95/98
PC with Windows NT
PC with Windows 3.1
PC witht DOS
Apple Macintosh G3 or G4
Apple Macintosh PowerPC
Apple Macintosh II
Unix-workstation
Other:
 
2 Interface - General    
2.1 How familiar are you with the term 'interface'?  
2.2 What does the term 'interface' indicate for you?  
2.3 Do you yourself cooperate in the development of interfaces?  
yes
no
2.4 If you answered 'yes' to question 2.3, in which way do you cooperate in the design of interfaces?
(multiple boxers may be checked)		  
conceptual
technical
artistical
2.5 If you answered 'yes' to question 2.3, what type of interfaces are they?  
 
3 Interface - Broader context    
3.1 What do you think is the most common mistake in interface design  
3.2 Do you think that a website can be described with the term 'interface'?  
yes
no
sometimes
  (specify below):
3.3 According to you, most interfaces are:  
3.4 What do you think the principal criteria for a good interface are?  
3.5 Can you give an example of what you think is a good interface?  
 
4 Design    
4.1 What does 'user-friendly' mean for you?  
4.2 What do you think is the best way to communicate with an interface?  
4.3 Do you think the icon system used in most current computer applications is a good system?  
yes
no
4.4 What do you think is the major advantage of the icon system?  
4.5 What do you think is the major fault of the icon system?  
4.6 Speech-recognition is a new development that gets a lot of media coverage, do you think it is a step forward in interface design?  
forward
backward
no influence
 
5 Professionals    
  The questions in this section are not mandatory.    
5.1 How important do you find the design of an interface?  
5.2 What new technology do you think will have the most profound influence on interface design?  
5.3 Do you think there will be new, currently unknown, technologies in the future that will have an important influence on the design of interfaces?  
no
yes, the following:
 
5.4 How do you assess the current evolution of artificial intelligence in the design of interfaces?  
5.5 Do you think the design of interfaces is developing in a positive or a negative direction?  
positive
negative
no evolution
5.6 Do you think interface design will become more important in application development in the future?  
will increase
will decrease
no evolution
5.7 How familiar do you experience the average user to be with the standard elements of a computer interface?  
 
6 Own opinion and conclusions    
  If you have any more remarks or questions, feel free to write them down below:
    
     
 
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