MovieLens User Survey

Conducted June-July 2004

Contents:
  1. Questions - screenshots of our user survey.  We used Survey Monkey to administer the questions.
  2. Results
    1. Summarized Results - a powerpoint presentation with a graphical display of the results
    2. Full Results - a csv spreadsheet with the full survey results
If you want to learn more about this research project, visit the CommunityLab or the GroupLens web site.  You may also want to try out MovieLens.  If you have any questions, contact Max Harper - harper (at) cs.umn.edu.

Questions

Notes: 357 users took the survey. Two versions of the survey were used with different orderings within questions.

Question 1) What is your email address? (picture omitted)

Question 2) Why do users use MovieLens?

question 1

Question 3)  Why do users rate movies?

question 3

Question 4) How well do users like MovieLens?

question 4

Question 5) How do perceptions of the system change over time?

question 5

Question 6) What sorts of monetized values do user assign to their activity in MovieLens?

question 6

Question 7) How frequently do users claim to do various MovieLens activities?

question 7

Question 8) What else do users believe?

question 8