Standardized free survey besides SUS [closed]

Question

Do you know of any standardized surveys freely available such as the System Usability Scale (SUS)? If it is only free for academic purpuses it's also good (I want to use it during a practical course at the university). Published data would be also nice for the sake of comparison (well, if it's standardized, it should have some data published somewhere...).

Answer 1

In the book Measuring the User Experience by Tullis and Albert, there's a section which mentions a study that compares post-session self-reported metrics:

Tullis and Stetson (2004) reported a study that compared a variety of post-session questionnaires for measuring user reactions to websites in an online usability study.

SUS apparently scored highest in that comparison study. The other methods listed are:

• QUIS
• CSUQ
• Words
• Study's

I don't really know much about those others, but I'm sure you could find out about them with a bit of searching.

Answer 2

There's a great article about SUS over at HFI (via UsabilityNews) that I've just read. Well worth a read.

Answer 3

If you're looking for alternative usability surveys, you should try Gary Perlman's User Interface Usability Evaluation with Web-Based Questionnaires. This is a web site that allows you to set up and administer the following usability surveys:

• Questionnaire for User Interface Satisfaction
• Perceived Usefulness and Ease of Use
• Nielsen's Attributes of Usability
• Nielsen's Heuristic Evaluation
• Computer System Usability Questionnaire
• After Scenario Questionnaire
• Practical Heuristics for Usability Evaluation
• Purdue Usability Testing Questionnaire
• USE Questionnaire

However, because the SUS survey has such good comparative data, it's really worth persevering with it if you can.