Timeline for Alternatives to checkboxes and radio buttons in web-based surveys?
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| May 3, 2011 at 18:59 | comment | added | Tom Auger | ...heh sounds like a good question for Mechanical Turk. Anyone wanna help me raise the $100 to find out? | |
| May 3, 2011 at 18:58 | comment | added | Tom Auger | I think that there's since the late 70s there haven't been any physical devices that use a radio-button style interface (actually, that's not true - blenders into the 90s still used them) so they're not as physically intuitive; however they have become the de facto convention since the advent of the web form. No, I certainly feel that they are intuitive. Though your question does make me wonder - if we showed a picture of a checkbox and a radio button and surveyed 1000 users about what the difference was between the two (without leading the question) I wonder how many would know? | |
| May 3, 2011 at 14:52 | comment | added | DA01 | Do you feel that radio buttons don't effectively communicate the fact that only one can be selected? I've never considered that as an issue amongst the general population, but it certainly could be, I suppose. | |
| Apr 30, 2011 at 1:51 | history | answered | Tom Auger | CC BY-SA 3.0 |