I want to create a quick survey in Amazon Mechanical Turk for an image sorting task, say from brighter to darker images. I know that I can even create an external website and design a drag-and-drop interface but these images can be quite big (around 800px by 600px) and dragging one with autoscrolling up and down without seeing the overview of what has been answered so far can be as annoying as sorting a big list. Also, this is probably a one-time task so I opt for the built-in web interface which allows HTML input elements
The most obvious solution to me is a small drop-down list for ordering (1st, 2nd, 3rd, ...
) per image at the bottom. The user can drag up to see the images which are coded with A, B, C, ...
and go down to reply one by one or remember a partial order, answer, and repeat until done. This can be similarly implemented by an array of radio buttons but will take more screen real estate (and probably more dragging.)
It is possible that two images may be chosen for the same order as these drop-down lists are not dynamic. I think I will just reject those answers.
Is this good for 6-10 images? If it is really bad, can you suggest an alternative or should I only go for drag-and-drop?