Date: | April 2nd, 2007 |
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Location: | DC 1304 |
Time: | 1:30 |
Chair: | ![]() Paul Church |
Date: | April 9th | April 16 | April 23 | April 30 |
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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 |
![]() 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. |
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