From: "Gary S. Withrow" <gswithro@sanluis.uccs.edu>
Subject: ONLINE: Encyclopedia of Virtual Environments Survey
Organization: University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

In the Fall term of 1993, Dr. Ben Shneiderman presented a course
titled "Virtual Reality, Telepresence, and Beyond" shown throughout
the U.S.A. from the University of Maryland.

A large part of the course was an electronic class collaboration on
the construction of EVE.  EVE is an Encyclopedia of Virtual
Environments.  EVE is a series of short articles authored by the
groups of members of the class.  It is available in ASCII and on some
hypertext platforms.

As a follow-up effort, students Gary Withrow(me) and Mike Burton are
evaluating the results of the project.  Part of this evaluation is to
get reactions and opinions of people who read and use EVE by answering
some survey questions.

In order to gain access to EVE in ASCII, ftp to 'umd5.umd.edu' login
as 'anonymous'.  The directory is 'pub/eve' There is one file
containing all of EVE called 'eve.ascii' and the individual articles
in EVE have extensions .txt *Also* included is the below survey called
'survey.txt'

Your response is completely voluntary, and you are certainly 
welcome to read and use EVE without responding to our survey.
The survey will aid in improvements to EVE and electronic 
collaboration studies.

Thank you very much for your time and for sharing your EVE 
opinions with us.  These results will be anonymous, so please feel 
free in expressing any reactions you may have.  The answers can be 
as long or as short as you like.   

Please send your survey responses to:  gswithro@sanluis.uccs.edu

We would like the responses by Wednesday, Dec 1.

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Evaluator information:

The following will help us to identify trends in the answers based on 
the evaluators background.  Providing this information is completely
optional, but strongly appreciated. 

Sex:     Age:    

# years of computer science / engineering experience:
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                   **SURVEY**

1) What are your overall impressions of EVE?

2) What is your impression of the consistency between the articles?

3) Many articles were produced by pairs of authors using email. 
   What is your impression of the consistency within articles?

4) How do you rate the readability of the articles?  

5) How do you rate the technical/information content of the articles?

6) EVE was targetted for undergraduate CS students.  Do you think 
   that the writing was appropriate for this level?
           
7) EVE was partly intended to provide information to undergraduate
   students on the classes to pursue in order to equip the reader 
   with abilities relating to Virtual Reality.
   Do you think the recommendations were appropriate? Too many? Too Few?

8) Any other strong points to EVE?

9) Any other weaknesses that stand out?