Data entry by means of a visual analogue "slider"

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dickon

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Sep 28, 2011, 9:52:11 AM9/28/11
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I am designing a TW based questionnaire to research how therapy teams using the AMBIT tiddlymanuals (see http://tiddlymanuals.tiddlyspace.com)

Each tiddler will contain one question...  some are designed to stimulate relection by the practitioner on his or her style of working, etc, and visual analogue scales are good for this....

I want to use an analogue "slider" to help people filling in questionaires to place themselves between two dichotomous poles (for instance, take the question: How much do you see yourself as a "thinker" or a "doer"?...

The person filling in the questioannire needs a "slider" that moves between two poles THINKER<------------------------------|-----------> DOER and they have to move the slider to reflect the extent to which they see themselves as one or the other, or balanced.

Is there a neat bit of html or code of some sort that I can use, so that the position of the slider generates (and saves) a number that represents where it is on the scale (eg a fraction between 0 and 1?)

Best, Dickon


axelm

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Sep 28, 2011, 4:04:14 PM9/28/11
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PMario

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Sep 28, 2011, 7:34:51 PM9/28/11
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Hi Dickon,
Do you use Jon's questionnaire space, to collect the results?
If yes, you could use radio buttons with some special CSS (to be done)
as a workaround.

!Type
radio
!Value
1
2
3

would produce someting like
o o o
1 2 3

Where the "o" can be checked by the user and the value below will be
the result. The horizontal allignment could be done with some CSS. It
would be needed, that Jon adds some more classes to the elements, to
get propper styling. IMO it should be also possible to hide the
values, since it could influence users choice.

-m

Alex Hough

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Sep 29, 2011, 2:55:59 AM9/29/11
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there are some js sliders available - i explored them when i was doing my OMM.
Jquery UI and Yahoo Ui have them i think

A non-tw way which might be interesting to explore is Qualtrics [1]
then to use an iframe. If one was doing some serious stats, i think it
well worth exploring as there are built in features.

Alex

[1] http://www.qualtrics.com/

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