Purpose

The purpose of this survey is to gather people's opinions on surveillance features found in common raid monitoring addons and to an extent similar features found in other products. It is mainly meant for people who have at least once participated in a raid in World of Warcraft. The survey is completely anonymous and your answer will help us in designing better tools for use in raiding. Please answer as truthfully as possible.

Survey

  1. What is your age group?
  2. What is your primary role in raids?
  3. Do you use a raid monitoring addon (such as CT_RaidAssist, oRA2, oRA3, etc.)?
  4. If so, which?
  5. Several raid monitoring addons provide functions that allow raid assistants and raid leaders to transparently query information about the raid's members. Examples of such functions include (i) checking the durability of every player's items, (ii) what items the player has in his/her bags, (iii) each player's resistance to the different spell types, (iv) how much time is left on each player's spell cooldowns, etc. Do you think such features are useful or not?
  6. Do you consider the information gathered by such functions public or private?
  7. Do you think such functions are offensive or acceptable?
  8. If you find such functions offensive, would you find them acceptable if the user was alerted every time they were used?
  9. If you find such functions offensive, would you find them acceptable if the user was alerted and could decide whether or not to allow the query to gather information about you?
  10. Several other pieces of software contain surveillance and/or monitoring functions. For example, TiVo gathered information about how many of its users rewound and re-watched the Janet Jackson "wardrobe malfunction". How do you feel about other surveillance functions found in other software?
  11. Is there anything else you would like to add?