1 Introduction; 2 Related work; 2.1 Evaluation in the domain of NIME; 2.2 Evaluation criteria in NIME; 2.3 Evaluation of traditional ; 3 Research goals and motivation; 4 Methodological approach; 5 Study 1: Interviews with musicians and item generation; 5.1 Method; 5.2 Results Study 1; 6 Study 2: Refinement and reduction of the item pool; 6.1 Method; 6.2 Results Study 2; 7 Study 3: Exploratory Factor Analysis; 7.1 Method; 7.2 Results study 3; 8 General Discussion; 8.1 Suitability of the questionnaire for NIME-research; 8.2 Limitations and future research; 8.3 Conclusion.