When and Why to Use

Use this to present an image for a limited amount of time. Best suited for:

• Passive exposure to stimuli before a follow-up question
• Advertising or concept testing with controlled viewing duration
• Attention or memory-based experiments

This function does not collect a direct response, but it can be followed immediately by a related question.

Chat Experience

• Image is shown full-width with no user interaction allowed
• A countdown may be visible or implicit, depending on platform settings
• After the timer expires, the survey auto-advances to the next screen

Traditional Experience

• Image is centered with padding or fills the screen depending on image size
• Suitable for remote-based navigation; no buttons or interaction during display

Chat experience	Traditional experience	Traditional experience on Mobile

Configuration Options

Option	Type	Required	Default	Description
image	MediaItem	yes	-	Image to display from the s.media collection
number_seconds	int	no	5	How long to display the image before auto-advancing

Example Code

from survey import Survey s = Survey(**globals()) for media in s.media: s.show_image( image=media, number_seconds=5 )

Notes

• This question does not collect input — it's purely for presentation
• Best followed by a comprehension, recall, or perception question
• You can pair this with text_question or select_question to assess reaction to the image
• Consider limiting to 3–7 seconds for most attention-based use cases