<s>
The	O
Questionnaire	B-Application
For	I-Application
User	I-Application
Interaction	I-Application
Satisfaction	I-Application
(	O
QUIS	B-Application
)	O
is	O
a	O
tool	O
developed	O
to	O
assess	O
users	O
 '	O
subjective	O
satisfaction	O
with	O
specific	O
aspects	O
of	O
the	O
human-computer	O
interface	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
QUIS	B-Application
is	O
currently	O
at	O
Version	O
7.0	O
with	O
demographic	O
questionnaire	O
,	O
a	O
measure	O
of	O
overall	O
system	O
satisfaction	O
along	O
6	O
scales	O
,	O
and	O
measures	O
of	O
9	O
specific	O
interface	O
factors	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
When	O
the	O
QUIS	B-Application
was	O
developed	O
,	O
a	O
large	O
number	O
questionnaires	O
concerning	O
user	O
subjective	O
satisfaction	O
had	O
been	O
developed	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
QUIS	B-Application
Version	O
2.0	O
was	O
modified	O
and	O
expanded	O
to	O
three	O
major	O
sections	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
last	O
section	O
,	O
section	O
III	O
,	O
included	O
the	O
modified	O
version	O
of	O
QUIS	B-Application
Version	O
2.0	O
,	O
now	O
containing	O
103	O
questions	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Chin	O
,	O
Norman	O
and	O
Shneiderman	O
(	O
1987	O
)	O
administered	O
the	O
QUIS	B-Application
Version	O
3.0	O
and	O
a	O
subsequent	O
revised	O
Version	O
4.0	O
to	O
an	O
introductory	O
computer	B-General_Concept
science	I-General_Concept
class	O
learning	O
to	O
program	O
in	O
CF	O
PASCAL	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Then	O
,	O
for	O
the	O
next	O
6	O
weeks	O
,	O
the	O
participants	O
switched	O
programming	O
environments	O
and	O
evaluated	O
the	O
new	O
system	O
with	O
the	O
QUIS	B-Application
Version	O
4.0	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
There	O
was	O
a	O
clear	O
need	O
to	O
determine	O
if	O
the	O
reliability	O
of	O
the	O
QUIS	B-Application
would	O
generalize	O
to	O
other	O
populations	O
of	O
users	O
and	O
products	O
,	O
like	O
a	O
local	O
PC	O
User	O
's	O
Group	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Another	O
study	O
using	O
QUIS	B-Application
Version	O
5.0	O
was	O
carried	O
out	O
with	O
a	O
local	O
PC	O
User	O
's	O
Group	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
researchers	O
found	O
that	O
the	O
overall	O
reliability	O
of	O
QUIS	B-Application
Version	O
5.0	O
using	O
Cronbach	O
's	O
alpha	O
was	O
.939	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Even	O
though	O
the	O
QUIS	B-Application
Version	O
5.0	O
was	O
a	O
powerful	O
tool	O
for	O
interface	O
evaluation	O
,	O
interface	O
issues	O
limited	O
the	O
utility	O
of	O
the	O
on-line	O
version	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Previous	O
versions	O
of	O
the	O
QUIS	B-Application
have	O
been	O
laid	O
out	O
in	O
a	O
very	O
linear	O
fashion	O
,	O
in	O
which	O
one	O
question	O
would	O
be	O
shown	O
on	O
each	O
screen	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
However	O
,	O
this	O
format	O
is	O
unable	O
to	O
capture	O
the	O
hierarchical	O
nature	O
of	O
the	O
question	O
sets	O
in	O
the	O
QUIS	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
QUIS	B-Application
5.5	O
presented	O
related	O
sets	O
of	O
questions	O
on	O
the	O
same	O
screen	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Users	O
of	O
the	O
QUIS	B-Application
often	O
avoided	O
the	O
on-line	O
version	O
because	O
it	O
failed	O
to	O
record	O
specific	O
user	O
comments	O
about	O
the	O
system	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
response	O
to	O
this	O
need	O
,	O
QUIS	B-Application
Version	O
5.5	O
collected	O
and	O
stored	O
comments	O
online	O
for	O
each	O
set	O
of	O
questions	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
output	O
format	O
of	O
the	O
QUIS	B-Application
data	O
was	O
also	O
a	O
source	O
of	O
frustration	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
QUIS	B-Application
Version	O
5.5	O
stores	O
data	O
in	O
a	O
format	O
that	O
could	O
be	O
easily	O
imported	O
into	O
most	O
popular	O
spreadsheet	O
and	O
statistical	O
analysis	O
applications	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Overall	O
,	O
the	O
most	O
significant	O
change	O
to	O
the	O
QUIS	B-Application
in	O
Version	O
5.5	O
is	O
improved	O
flexibility	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
QUIS	B-Application
Version	O
5.5	O
allowed	O
experimenters	O
to	O
select	O
subsets	O
of	O
the	O
QUIS	B-Application
questions	O
to	O
display	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Standard	O
HTML	O
forms	O
were	O
used	O
to	O
let	O
users	O
interact	O
with	O
the	O
QUIS	B-Application
Version	O
5.5	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
data	O
for	O
each	O
section	O
of	O
the	O
QUIS	B-Application
was	O
time	O
stamped	O
and	O
recorded	O
on	O
the	O
client	O
computer	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
At	O
the	O
end	O
of	O
the	O
questionnaire	O
the	O
data	O
from	O
all	O
sections	O
of	O
the	O
QUIS	B-Application
were	O
gathered	O
together	O
and	O
send	O
as	O
a	O
single	O
piece	O
back	O
to	O
the	O
server	O
where	O
the	O
QUIS	B-Application
was	O
deployed	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
study	O
compared	O
responses	O
from	O
paper	O
and	O
on-line	O
formats	O
of	O
the	O
QUIS	B-Application
Veresion	O
5.5	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Twenty	O
subjects	O
evaluated	O
WordPerfect©	O
using	O
both	O
the	O
paper	O
and	O
online	O
formats	O
of	O
the	O
QUIS	B-Application
Version	O
5.5	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Each	O
administration	O
of	O
the	O
QUIS	B-Application
was	O
preceded	O
by	O
a	O
practice	O
session	O
to	O
refamiliarize	O
the	O
subject	O
with	O
the	O
interface	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
These	O
results	O
indicated	O
that	O
the	O
online	O
QUIS	B-Application
format	O
provides	O
more	O
higher-quality	O
information	O
to	O
developers	O
,	O
researchers	O
and	O
human	O
factors	O
experts	O
than	O
the	O
paper-pencil	O
format	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
QUIS	B-Application
Version	O
5.5	O
was	O
expanded	O
into	O
Version	O
6.0	O
and	O
used	O
for	O
the	O
study	O
of	O
the	O
AVR	O
"	O
Guardian	O
"	O
system	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
QUIS	B-Application
Version	O
7.0	O
is	O
an	O
updated	O
and	O
expanded	O
version	O
of	O
the	O
previously	O
validated	O
QUIS	B-Application
5.5	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
addition	O
to	O
English	O
,	O
the	O
QUIS	B-Application
7.0	O
is	O
currently	O
available	O
in	O
the	O
following	O
languages	O
:	O
German	O
,	O
Italian	O
,	O
Portuguese	O
(	O
Brazilian	O
)	O
,	O
and	O
Spanish	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
Fall	O
2011	O
,	O
a	O
group	O
of	O
University	O
of	O
Maryland	O
students	O
began	O
work	O
updating	O
the	O
QUIS	B-Application
Version	O
7.0	O
.	O
</s>
