System and method of providing an online survey and summarizing survey response data
AssigneeVision Critical Communications Inc.
InventorChristopher John Ryan
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Abstract
Embodiments disclosed herein include systems and methods which allow for the creation of online surveys in which thematically-related questions are grouped together as meta-questions to reduce the perceived and/or actual time and effort needed to complete the survey. Further disclosed embodiments provide the ability to provide a summary display of survey response data in an aggregate format such as a sentence (or pseudo-sentence) which summarizes answers given to a series of thematically related questions.
Claims16
A computer-implemented method for presenting survey questions to survey respondents, the method comprising:
- grouping questions thematically into a plurality of meta-questions;
- generating a plurality of tiled controls which provide access to each meta-question, the tiled controls having an expanded view and an unexpanded view;
- receiving an input selection of one of the tiled controls;
- setting the selected tiled control to the expanded view to display its associated meta-question for user response;
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- setting the non-selected tiled controls to the unexpanded view.
An online survey system comprising:
- data storage configured to store data indicative of a plurality of survey questions, wherein at least some of the plurality of survey questions are thematically grouped into meta-questions;
- a computing device in communication with the data storage and configured to generate a plurality of displayable panels having an expanded state and an unexpanded state, the panels each corresponding to one of the meta-questions and configured to:
- enter an expanded state and provide access to its meta-question in response to a user selection of the panel;
- receive data inputs indicative of responses to the meta-question;
- generate summary data indicative of the received responses;
- display the summary data on the panel in both an expanded and unexpanded state;
- update a completion indicator associated with the panel based on the user input;
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- enter an unexpanded state when a selection of another panel is received by the online survey system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.