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#1 MCJomar

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Posted 11 March 2013 - 03:25 AM

Hello,

I'm a univeristy student, studying at Liverpool John Moores University.
I'm writing a dissertation on user interfaces (UIs), with an investigation into MMO UIs, and the best choices within that area, relative to HCI, and Usability Engineering.

To research the hypotheses relative to MMOs, I need to acquire and collate data, and the most direct method is via a survey.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/3RC22B2

I do not ask for (or want) personal information outside of a rough age range (nothing specific to protect identities).

Some of you ( if not a large amount of you) may well play multiple MMOs.
If you wish to provide data for more than one MMO, feel free to run the survey multiple times.
The data collected will be open for perusal upon completion of the project, and will be available to developers if they wish.

Any and all help, appreciated.
thank you for your time.

Edited by Stormtiger, 11 March 2013 - 05:23 AM.


#2 von Pilsner

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Posted 11 March 2013 - 03:30 AM

8v8 doth not an MMO make... :)

#3 Ewigan

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Posted 11 March 2013 - 03:36 AM

I would have liked to help ya out, but your survey is broken.
Question number 8 only lets me set the topics from one to six.
i can't set more then one topic to the same number.

#4 bloodnor

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Posted 11 March 2013 - 03:36 AM

I went to JMU back in the day i did my computer science degree there. I will always help a fellow northerner.

question 8 is faulty a little irony. your doing it on user interfaces I'm sure you fix it in no time i will check back later dude and answer them all again once it's working :)

Edited by bloodnor, 11 March 2013 - 03:40 AM.


#5 FunkyFritter

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Posted 11 March 2013 - 03:52 AM

This isn't an mmo.

#6 BumbleBee

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Posted 11 March 2013 - 04:07 AM

Ill be happy to fill it out once the survey is fixed

#7 Beeman

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Posted 11 March 2013 - 04:19 AM

I, like some other people floatin' about here dislike when people classify these match based games as MMOs.

The reason they get classified as such is just silly. Massively multiplayer means just that, the multiplayer is massive. That is to say, at least two hundred people(typically much more) in one worldspace runnin' around and laggin' each other out with their shenanigans.

#8 MCJomar

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Posted 11 March 2013 - 05:04 AM

Alrighty, survey question 8 fixed.
And to answer that second part - it's more of a multiplayer game with MMO elements strapped to it, but like or dislike it's become classed under the MMO umbrella, and when Community Warfare finally hits, it will find itself firmly entrenched in the MMO area.
(And if it helps, you can like the 8v8 to the WoW PvP arena, although I doubt many people will enjoy the comparison).

Cheers! :)

#9 MCJomar

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Posted 12 March 2013 - 04:13 AM

Sorry for the bump.
Kinda need as much data as I can get.
Thanks to those who have already filled this out :)

#10 SteelyDan

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Posted 16 March 2013 - 07:02 PM

Done!

#11 SPencil

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Posted 23 March 2013 - 11:37 PM

I'll definitely fill it out when I have some more time :rolleyes:

[this space reserved for my 'finished!' comment]

#12 Voridan Atreides

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Posted 10 April 2013 - 08:09 AM

Finished.

#13 Lunatic_Asylum

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Posted 14 April 2013 - 10:39 PM

Where is Age of Conan in that list?!

#14 MCJomar

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Posted 15 April 2013 - 02:05 AM

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Where is Age of Conan in that list?!


As I had limited time, and extremely limited funds, I had to limit the area of investigation. The focus being on the UI/GUI, rather than gameplay. Hence the list being limited to those games I had access to (and enough experience to justify a proper review of, as I'd prever to be thorough).

Thanks for the comment though.

#15 Multitallented

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Posted 23 April 2013 - 02:21 PM

Done. Hope this helps, though it's kinda obvious why the UI is failing

#16 Badconduct

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Posted 10 May 2013 - 01:17 PM

You should really be specific as to what a "UI" is. The intro menu, the patcher, the HUD...?

#17 Ihasa

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Posted 11 May 2013 - 09:23 AM

Completed! Funny both mmo's I'm playing are undergoing UI changes in the next 1-2 months.

#18 Madara Uchiha

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Posted 20 June 2013 - 08:49 AM

Sure why not ill help.

#19 Enigmos

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Posted 15 August 2013 - 07:08 AM

View Postlunticasylum, on 14 April 2013 - 10:39 PM, said:

Where is Age of Conan in that list?!


Most likely Funcom did not agree to participate in the study.





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