Glossary of AI Survey Design Terms

Explore essential terms and definitions related to AI-powered survey creation and data collection. This glossary will help you understand the tools and concepts that drive smarter decisions with Esko.ai.

Esko Glossary

Here are some common terms you will face while playing with Esko.
Response

When a respondent gives a response on one of your surveys, you've got one response. When a respondents gives a response on two of your surveys, you've got two responses! If the same respondent gives a response on one survey twice, you again have got two responses.

Card

In your survey you present your questions with the help of cards. One question card has one question or info in it. In Analyze-page you will find data cards which include data of one question, data from the whole question group, or data that has been combined from two different data cards.

Contact

A contact is an identified respondent, as opposed to an anonymous respondent. If a contact gives a response on multiple surveys, you can view and compare all their reponses together to know your contact better.

CSS Styles editor

Add your custom CSS styles for a survey. Please notice that the CSS Styles editor is mainly meant for advanced users.

Email

Via email you can send survey invitations to your contacts.

Intelligent Zoom

This feature standardizes attitudes (moving average to center) and the use of scale (averaging distances from the center).

JSON config editor

Customize your survey even further. Please notice that the JSON config editor is mainly meant for advanced users.

Online

The survey is open for respondents. Read about how to open or close a survey here.

Mapping a question

If your survey includes Outcomes, remember to map the questions with the outcomes. That means that you define which response affects the outcome a respondent gets after responding the survey.

Offline

The survey is closed and a response cannot be given. Read here how to open or close a survey.

Outcomes

An outcome is something that a respondent sees after they have responded to all of the questions. A personality test usually has 3-5 different outcomes, defined by how the respondent has responded the questions.

Properties

Properties are information like link to your company's Facebook profile that can be later be used, for example, in email invitations and when defining survey social sharing. You can modify the properties of your organization or your own profile.

Property Text

Property texts can be used in a survey invitation email to make the email more personal. For example, a respondent's name can be used as a property.

Question groups

Questions are organized into groups according to, for example, subject areas. ZEF survey tool has two different question group types: Simple and Intelligent. Read more here.

Question type

When asking different kind of questions, you need to have different styles of asking and presenting those questions. The tool has Basic and Input question types where you can find the right ones to meet your needs. Read more about different questions types here.

Respondent

A person who has responded a survey.

Smiley indicator

Smiley indicator can be used slider, range, and 2D question types.

Thank you screen

The last screen that the respondents see. Add a picture and thank the respondents for their responses.

Welcome card

The view that respondents see when they open a survey