Meeting Agenda

Date:	April 2nd, 2007
Location:	DC 1304
Time:	1:30
Chair:	Paul Church

1. Changes to the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:: School Achievement Awards- thanks!
Coffee hour this week:: Holiday(Easter bunny)
Coffee hour next week:: Volunteers?

3. Forthcoming

Date:	April 9th	April 16	April 23	April 30
Location:	DC 1304 1:30	DC 1304 1:30	DC 2303 1:30	DC 1304 1:30
Chair:	Bill Cowan	Jeff Dicker	Gabriel Esteves	Elodie Fourquet
Technical Presentation:	Jie Xu	Paul Church	Bill Cowan	Jeff Dicker

4. Technical Presentation

Michael Terry	Title : Usability in the Wild Abstract: Volunteer-driven open source projects lack the resources that commercial companies possess to pursue usability concerns. As a result, it is typically not known exactly who is using a particular piece of software, and for what purpose. In this talk, I will present the design of Instrumented GIMP, or ingimp, a version of the GIMP that transparently collects usability data. These data are automatically uploaded to a central webserver where they are summarized and available for all to download and analyze. I will discuss the unique challenges of designing an application that automatically logs data that the general public will be able to access.

Michael Terry

Title : Usability in the Wild

Abstract:
Volunteer-driven open source projects lack the resources that commercial companies possess to pursue usability concerns. As a result, it is typically not known exactly who is using a particular piece of software, and for what purpose. In this talk, I will present the design of Instrumented GIMP, or ingimp, a version of the GIMP that transparently collects usability data. These data are automatically uploaded to a central webserver where they are summarized and available for all to download and analyze. I will discuss the unique challenges of designing an application that automatically logs data that the general public will be able to access.

5. Discussion Items

None so far...

6. Action Items

Meet in CGL on April 23rd
June 29th lab open house

7. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

8. Directors' Meeting

9. Seminars and Events

2007 Apr 03 , 11:00 � Computer Science Master's Thesis Presentation
Denise Eng, graduate student, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, Univ. Waterloo
On the Application of Photoacoustic Absorption Spectral Data to the Modeling of Leaf Optical Properties
2007 Apr 04 , 13:30 � Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) Group Seminar
Ian Goldberg, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
Improving the Robustness of Private Information Retrieval
2007 Apr 10, 13:30 � Computer Science Master's Thesis Presentation
Anwar Haque, graduate student, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Sci., Univ. Waterloo
Designing Survivable Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) Mesh Networks
2007 Apr 17, 10:30 � Computer Science Master's Thesis Presentation
David Chodos, graduate student, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, Univ. Waterloo
A Web-based Statistical Analysis Framework

Also see other Math and CS postings.