Patent ID: 7904825

Claim:
A method for operating to gather input from respondents to electronic surveys to evaluate preferences related to one or more products depicted in digital two dimensional and three dimensional images, the method comprising: providing a drawing tool for enabling at least one survey respondent to designate areas of interest related to said one or more products depicted in at least one of said digital two dimensional and three dimensional images within an electronic survey, wherein said designated areas of interest comprise a positive or negative indication; providing a graphical user interface (GUI) to permit said at least one survey respondent to utilize said drawing tool to create data files, wherein said data files comprise at least one member selected from the group comprising designated area data, positive or negative attributes, and survey respondent opinions for at least one designated area of interest within an image; presenting, to said at least one survey respondent via said GUI, said positive attributes when said at least one designated area of interest comprises a positive indication; presenting, to said at least one survey respondent via said GUI, said negative attributes when said at least one designated area of interest comprises a negative indication, wherein said positive and negative attributes relate to features associated with at least one designated area of interest and are selectable by said at least one survey respondent; and saving, in storage, said data files in a machine-readable file for analysis.