[Insight-developers] SimpleITK Community Survey Draft

Thu Sep 16 13:27:40 EDT 2010

Gabe,

Background Questinos:

Question 1:
I'm not sure how Microscopy and Radiology differ from Medical Image Analysis
...

Question 3:
Generally having 3 (or any odd number) of levels is not the best design.
 Most users will automatically choose the center.  By choosing an even
number of levels you force them to commit one way or the other, even if it
is only marginal.

Question 4:
Rather than programming tools, these appear to be more visualization tools.

Question 6:
I would rephrase this as, "How comfortable are you with the process of
generating a program from a source distribution?"

Question 7:
I think 7 is a false choice ... you can have both.  I think what we want to
ask is more along the lines of:
How likely would you be to use ITK if it were distributed as:

                                      Very  likely | Likely  |  Somewhat
Likely | Would No Use

A ready to use package:
A source code distribution:

SimpleITK Questions
Q1 : Do you need to process very large images (larger than will typically
fit in your computer memory)?

Q5/Q6: I think these will miss the target audience.  How about:

Please rate the importance of having easy access to ITK functionality from
the following languages:

  Highly Important
                            Not important
   10                              9                           8
....                                        1
R
OpenCv

...

And then reverse it:

Please Rate the important of having easy access to the following languages
from ITK

...

For Q6, I think this will have meaning to only a limited set of people, but
I'm not aure how else to phrase it.

Q7 and Q8:

Make this a 4 or 10 block scale and put the trade offs on wither side of the
scale ... you may also want to explain why the trade-offs exist.

ITK Specific Questions:

Q3 is a good model for some of the importance/relative importance questions.
 If you were to add a column for "Should be removed" and change ambivalent
to "Might be useful" you could even get it to an even number of blocks,
although, for this case having ambivalent as the center selection kind of
makes sense.

- Wes

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Gabe Hart <gabe.hart at kitware.com> wrote:

> After a couple of good sets of feedback, I think the survey is ready to go.
>  The link again is:
>
>
> http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/SimpleITKCommunitySurvey
>
> If anyone has any more comments, feel free to send them to me.  My goal is
> to have a fully finished version by the end of the day today so that we can
> start distributing it tomorrow.
>
>
> -Gabe
>
> On 09/16/2010 01:50 AM, Dan Mueller wrote:
>
>> Hi Gabe,
>>
>> Thanks for creating the survey. Some thoughts:
>>
>> Page 1, "ITK is being significantly revamped for the upcoming version 4
>> release"
>> Consider adding the expected release date in brackets.
>>
>> Page 1, "One of the most important pieces of feedback from our users
>> has been that ITK's power comes with a steep learning curve and makes
>> many less-complicated tasks more difficult than necessary."
>> This sentence is a bit wordy. People are busy, consider shortening it.
>> For example:
>> "Previous user feedback has indicated ITK's power comes with a steep
>> learning curve, sometimes over-complicating simple tasks."
>>
>> Page 1, "The goal of this survey is to collect your thoughts on what
>> the most important features of ITK's new simple layer should be."
>> Again, perhaps a bit wordy. Consider:
>> "The aim of this survey is to determine the most important features to
>> include in the new ITK simple layer."
>>
>> Page 2, question 5 "Which of the following best describes your why you
>> write code?"
>> Typo: remove "your".
>>
>> Page 2, question 8. What operating systems do you use for image analysis
>> work?
>> Do we need an "other" free-text field?
>>
>> Page 2, questions 10,11,12: First time I read these questions, I
>> thought they were the same on (a typo). Is it possible to underline
>> "understandable", "easy", "useful" to clearly show the difference? Do
>> we really need to ask all three?
>>
>> Page 3, question 9. What types of devices would you like to be able to
>> use SimpleITK on?
>> Do we need an "other" free-text field? Mobile device?
>>
>> Page 4, question 3. How important is it to you for SimpleITK to use a
>> pipeline system similar to the one in ITK?
>> Can this question be included in question 2 above?
>> For example:
>> Simple image filters (eg. Gaussian filter)
>> Pipeline of image filters (eg. Gaussian then Sigmoid filter)
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> Cheers, Dan
>>
>> On 15 September 2010 23:14, Gabe Hart<gabe.hart at kitware.com>  wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Here is the link to the first draft of the SimpleITK community survey:
>>>
>>> http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/SimpleITKCommunitySurvey
>>>
>>> If anyone has feedback on changes (new questions, rewording, order,
>>> etc...),
>>> please let me know and I'll make the appropriate adjustments.  Also, an
>>> initial list of target communities has been compiled at
>>>
>>> http://www.itk.org/Wiki/ITK_Release_4/SimpleITK/Survey_1#Target_Audience
>>>
>>> If anyone knows of other communities that should be added, please put
>>> them
>>> up on the wiki. Our goal is to find someone who is already involved in
>>> each
>>> of these groups to publish the surveys, so if you or someone you know
>>> would
>>> be a good liaison, please put that on the wiki as well.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> -Gabe
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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