Simplified user poll and experience report language (SUPER): implementation and application

Comput Appl Biosci. 1994 Apr;10(2):105-9. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/10.2.105.

Abstract

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.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Evaluation Studies as Topic*
  • Microcomputers
  • Office Automation
  • Online Systems
  • Programming Languages
  • Software Design
  • Software*
  • Surveys and Questionnaires*
  • User-Computer Interface*