Simplified user poll and experience report language (SUPER): implementation and application.
Biological computing is generally organized as stand-alone implementation on a PC-type computer or on a central facility (e.g. a university computer center). Services provided by central facilities need to be tailored to the user community. Unless very work-intensive individual contacts are used, the feedback must be collected with generalized tools, such as questionnaires distributed in the form of a newsletter. We have developed a method to have such polls automated and tailored, as well as having multiple-choice questions combined with branching after fundamental questions. As the evaluation of the results needs to know the questions asked, we have also included a method to process the answers and give detailed tables on the answers. SUPER was applied in a poll to query the academic usership in Switzerland on the usage of molecular biology databases.
Biozentrum, Universitaet Basel, Switzerland.
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D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D008838:Microcomputers; D009816:Office Automation; D009862:Online Systems; D011381:Programming Languages; D012984:Software; D012985:Software Design; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014584:User-Computer Interface