Survey on Vacuum Cleaning

[Urban Ranger]

1) Do you own a vacuum cleaner?

Yes

2a) Do you vacuum clean yourself?

Yes

2b) If not, who does the vacuum cleaning in your household?

Me

2c) Does the person who is vacuum cleaning enjoy it?

Not in the least

3) How frequently is there being vacuum cleaned?

Once a week

4a) Do you vacuum clean the entire house in one time, or do you only vacuum clean parts in one time?

Just the carpets

4b) Can you give an estimation of how much time you (or the person responsible) spend on vacuum cleaning?

30 minutes

5) Are there specific influences that cause you to vacuum clean more often, e.g. pets or environment (open windows, dusty living area et cetera)?

Nope

6a) Would you or your household be interested in a robot vacuum cleaner that does all the vacuum cleaning trouble for you?

Is that the Electrolux Trilobite thing?

6b) If so, what would you be willing to pay for such a machine?

Much less than what they are charging now, ~ US$1000

6c) Besides convenience/efficiency, would you have other motives to buy such a machine, e.g. trendiness, health (weight and low height of normal vacuum cleaners causing physical problems for instance)?

Laziness

[Garth Vader]

Re: Survey on Vacuum Cleaning

Here are the questions:

1) Do you own a vacuum cleaner?

Yes

2a) Do you vacuum clean yourself?

Yes

2b) If not, who does the vacuum cleaning in your household?
2c) Does the person who is vacuum cleaning enjoy it?

It's not the worst hosehold chore to do.

3) How frequently is there being vacuum cleaned?

Once every 2 weeks maybe.

4a) Do you vacuum clean the entire house in one time, or do you only vacuum clean parts in one time?

Both. If I do it more often it's usually only a part that needs it.


4b) Can you give an estimation of how much time you (or the person responsible) spend on vacuum cleaning?

Probably 10 minutes per session.

5) Are there specific influences that cause you to vacuum clean more often, e.g. pets or environment (open windows, dusty living area et cetera)?

Yes.

6a) Would you or your household be interested in a robot vacuum cleaner that does all the vacuum cleaning trouble for you?

Not really, then I'd probably have to clean more of my stuff off the floor rather than just vacuuming around it

6b) If so, what would you be willing to pay for such a machine?
6c) Besides convenience/efficiency, would you have other motives to buy such a machine, e.g. trendiness, health (weight and low height of normal vacuum cleaners causing physical problems for instance)?

Laziness is the only real motivation there.

[MikeH]

1) Do you own a vacuum cleaner?

No, but there is one in the house that we rent.

2a) Do you vacuum clean yourself?

Yes

2b) If not, who does the vacuum cleaning in your household?

2c) Does the person who is vacuum cleaning enjoy it?

Not much.

3) How frequently is there being vacuum cleaned?

When it gets so bad I feel I have to do something about it.

4a) Do you vacuum clean the entire house in one time, or do you only vacuum clean parts in one time?

Bits at a time.

4b) Can you give an estimation of how much time you (or the person responsible) spend on vacuum cleaning?

Hard to say. Half an hour a week? Maybe an hour including what others do.

5) Are there specific influences that cause you to vacuum clean more often, e.g. pets or environment (open windows, dusty living area et cetera)?

After a party.

6a) Would you or your household be interested in a robot vacuum cleaner that does all the vacuum cleaning trouble for you?

Yes!

6b) If so, what would you be willing to pay for such a machine?

£200

6c) Besides convenience/efficiency, would you have other motives to buy such a machine, e.g. trendiness, health (weight and low height of normal vacuum cleaners causing physical problems for instance)?

No, it'd purely be for reasons of laziness.

[Japher]

1) Do you own a vacuum cleaner?

Yes

2a) Do you vacuum clean yourself?

Yes

2b) If not, who does the vacuum cleaning in your household?
2c) Does the person who is vacuum cleaning enjoy it?

No

3) How frequently is there being vacuum cleaned?

1/week

4a) Do you vacuum clean the entire house in one time, or do you only vacuum clean parts in one time?

Yes, but my place is only 900 ft^2

4b) Can you give an estimation of how much time you (or the person responsible) spend on vacuum cleaning?

15 minutes

5) Are there specific influences that cause you to vacuum clean more often, e.g. pets or environment (open windows, dusty living area et cetera)?

Yes, when you have a long haired cat and chow mixed dog it gets really hairy

6a) Would you or your household be interested in a robot vacuum cleaner that does all the vacuum cleaning trouble for you?

No

6b) If so, what would you be willing to pay for such a machine?
6c) Besides convenience/efficiency, would you have other motives to buy such a machine, e.g. trendiness, health (weight and low height of normal vacuum cleaners causing physical problems for instance)?

[Richelieu]

1) Yes

2a) Yes
2b) N/A
2c) No

3) Weekly

4a) The entire apartment
4b) 45mins

5) No : It is something i do because i feel it has to be done.

6a) Yes
6b) Twice the price of a regular Vacuum cleaner
6c) Nope

[Neutrino]

1) yes

2a) yes

2c) no

3) about once a month

4a) entire apartment

4b) 15-20 min

5) dust

6a) yes, very much so

6b) $20 (cheap college student)

6c) no

[Immortal Wombat]

1) Do you own a vacuum cleaner?
No - my parents do

2a) Do you vacuum clean yourself?
No

2b) If not, who does the vacuum cleaning in your household?
The cleaner usually :bourgois:

2c) Does the person who is vacuum cleaning enjoy it?
They get paid to (I doubt it)

3) How frequently is there being vacuum cleaned?
Weekly

4a) Do you vacuum clean the entire house in one time, or do you only vacuum clean parts in one time?
Entire house

4b) Can you give an estimation of how much time you (or the person responsible) spend on vacuum cleaning?
40 minutes. Maybe an hour

5) Are there specific influences that cause you to vacuum clean more often, e.g. pets or environment (open windows, dusty living area et cetera)?
nope

6a) Would you or your household be interested in a robot vacuum cleaner that does all the vacuum cleaning trouble for you?
Yeah, maybe

6b) If so, what would you be willing to pay for such a machine?
£100. I've no idea.

6c) Besides convenience/efficiency, would you have other motives to buy such a machine, e.g. trendiness, health (weight and low height of normal vacuum cleaners causing physical problems for instance)?
Would it be quieter?

[GePap]

Re: Survey on Vacuum Cleaning

1) Not personally

2a) Yes

3) [bad wording]. About every two weeks

4a) By parts
4b) 10-15 minutes top.

5) More people plus dog = more dust

6a) yes
6b) $400-500
6c) no

[Zopperoni]

I don't know if any Americans know this product. That's the product we're basing our project on.

[Dis]

these questions are really going to make me look like a slob. even though I hardly vacuum I always pick stuff up.

1) Do you own a vacuum cleaner? Yes

2a) Do you vacuum clean yourself? Yes
2b) If not, who does the vacuum cleaning in your household? NA
2c) Does the person who is vacuum cleaning enjoy it? that is me, not really

3) How often does vacuum cleaning take place in your household? once a year maybe

4a) Do you vacuum clean the entire house in one time, or do you only vacuum clean parts in one time? entire house

4b) Can you give an estimation of how much time you (or the person responsible) spend on vacuum cleaning? 30 minutes maybe

5) Are there specific influences that cause you to vacuum clean more often, e.g. pets or environment (open windows, dusty living area et cetera)? usually just time elapsed

6a) Would you or your household be interested in a robot vacuum cleaner that does all the vacuum cleaning trouble for you? sure
6b) If so, what would you be willing to pay for such a machine? a few hundred bucks at the most

6c) Besides convenience/efficiency, would you have other motives to buy such a machine, e.g. trendiness, health (weight and low height of normal vacuum cleaners causing physical problems for instance)?
maybe if the robot could perform sex acts on me

[CyberGnu]

To throw some more chaff in your survey, I DO have the robot vacuum cleaner, and I love it.

Yes, it is primitive. Yes, I have to empty the lintrap every time I use it. But hell, it's an incredible feeling to come home to a freshly vacuumed apartment each day...

I was suprised about the psychological impact that had...

I spent $200 on my roomba, and when Roomba II comes out I'll probably upgrade.

[Urban Ranger]

What about Electrolux's Trilobite?

[Zopperoni]

Yes, I found that one too, but I discovered that the price was around 1,500 euros, which is way more than we're aiming for

[Kropotkin]

Of cource you know that asking questions for something this was is not a acceptable method from a statistical point of view. I'd throw your paper in the trashcan right away.