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| Pilot Participants Needed: Eclipse WTP Usage Study [message #155409] |
Mon, 09 January 2006 01:55  |
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Department of Computer Science
University of British Columbia
201-2366 Main Mall
Vancouver, B.C., V6T 1Z4
Eclipse Web Tools Platform Usage Study
We are currently looking for a few participants to pilot this study. If
you are interested in helping us improve Eclipse-based projects by
participating in the pilot study, please respond to this email. Details
are below.
This study will help us to improve the Eclipse IDE user experience. By
studying Eclipse Web Tools Platform (Eclipse WTP), we hope to make
improvements to the organization of commands and functions that can be
applied to both the Eclipse base as well as Eclipse-based projects.
Participating in this study will require minimal time from you, as it
simply involves using Eclipse WTP for your daily work.
Who can participate? To participate in this study you must be a user of
Eclipse WTP, currently using the IDE for at least 1 hour per week.
What does the study involve? The study involves installing the Mylar usage
monitor, then using Eclipse WTP for your daily work and periodically
sending back usage statistics that are collected by the monitor. Your only
time commitment to the study will be to fill out a short questionnaire and
use our automated facility for transmitting usage data. This should take
approximately 10 minutes per week. We ask that you keep the monitor
installed for at least one month in order to get a record of longer-term
usage patterns.
The monitor records edits and navigations but does not record identifying
information about you or the system you are working on (more detail
below). If you choose to you can remain anonymous throughout the study by
not providing any personal information and only using a randomly-generated
ID to sign up. You are free to stop participating in the study at any time.
How can you participate? The monitor plugin will be available for download
after the study start date (November, exact date TBA). To receive a
notification email when the study start date is set, please contact Leah
Findlater (lkf-at-cs.ubc.ca) to sign up. No additional information about
you is required -- just your email address, so that we can contact you.
We have extended the Mylar monitor plugin for this study. Mylar is an
Eclipse Technology Project and its usage monitor component may be used
independently for wider data collection purposes.
Who is running this study? This study is being conducted by Leah Findlater
(lkf-at-cs.ubc.ca) as a part of her PhD thesis and is supervised by Dr.
Joanna McGrenere (joanna-at-cs.ubc.ca). The study is being funded by IBM
Centers for Advanced Studies and by the Natural Sciences and Engineering
Research Council of Canada (NSERC).
If you have any questions or comments, please contact:
Leah Findlater, PhD Student
UBC Department of Computer Science
Email: lkf-at-cs.ubc.ca
Tel: 604-827-3988
Details on logging data:
A log of your interaction history is collected. The log stores information
about the program elements that you edit and navigate, but does not
contain identifiable information about specific elements (e.g. the fact
that you've navigated to a Java project is stored, but the specific name
of that project is not recorded). No identifying information about you or
about the system on which you are working is recorded or transmitted with
the usage data. In addition, the views that you use to navigate and edit
are recorded. When submitting the information you may be prompted to
answer a very short questionnaire, and can choose whether or not to do so.
You will also have the option of viewing the information that will be
transmitted and aborting the transmission.
After the study, the usage data will be stripped of all information
identifying the participants, and we will use this data to determine what
usage patterns exist across users and how we can use this to improve the
organization of commands and functions in feature-rich user interfaces.
Please note that the stripped usage data, containing no identification
information, will be archived for future use, and may be made available to
other researchers interested in improving the IDE user experience.
Last updated: January 8, 2006
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| Re: Pilot Participants Needed: Eclipse WTP Usage Study [message #156924 is a reply to message #155409] |
Tue, 17 January 2006 08:15  |
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Originally posted by: dserodio.gmail.com
I'd like to participate, bug I'm afraid my work computer can't handle
Mylar. It's a Celeron 2.4GHz with 512Mb total, with 256Mb allocated to
Eclipse (-Xms -Xmx).
Do you think my machine will be able to handle Mylar?
Thanks,
Daniel Serodio
Leah Findlater wrote:
> Department of Computer Science
> University of British Columbia
> 201-2366 Main Mall
> Vancouver, B.C., V6T 1Z4
>
> Eclipse Web Tools Platform Usage Study
>
> We are currently looking for a few participants to pilot this study. If
> you are interested in helping us improve Eclipse-based projects by
> participating in the pilot study, please respond to this email. Details
> are below.
>
> This study will help us to improve the Eclipse IDE user experience. By
> studying Eclipse Web Tools Platform (Eclipse WTP), we hope to make
> improvements to the organization of commands and functions that can be
> applied to both the Eclipse base as well as Eclipse-based projects.
> Participating in this study will require minimal time from you, as it
> simply involves using Eclipse WTP for your daily work.
>
> Who can participate? To participate in this study you must be a user of
> Eclipse WTP, currently using the IDE for at least 1 hour per week.
>
> What does the study involve? The study involves installing the Mylar
> usage monitor, then using Eclipse WTP for your daily work and
> periodically sending back usage statistics that are collected by the
> monitor. Your only time commitment to the study will be to fill out a
> short questionnaire and use our automated facility for transmitting
> usage data. This should take approximately 10 minutes per week. We ask
> that you keep the monitor installed for at least one month in order to
> get a record of longer-term usage patterns.
>
> The monitor records edits and navigations but does not record
> identifying information about you or the system you are working on (more
> detail below). If you choose to you can remain anonymous throughout the
> study by not providing any personal information and only using a
> randomly-generated ID to sign up. You are free to stop participating in
> the study at any time.
>
> How can you participate? The monitor plugin will be available for
> download after the study start date (November, exact date TBA). To
> receive a notification email when the study start date is set, please
> contact Leah Findlater (lkf-at-cs.ubc.ca) to sign up. No additional
> information about you is required -- just your email address, so that we
> can contact you.
>
> We have extended the Mylar monitor plugin for this study. Mylar is an
> Eclipse Technology Project and its usage monitor component may be used
> independently for wider data collection purposes.
>
> Who is running this study? This study is being conducted by Leah
> Findlater (lkf-at-cs.ubc.ca) as a part of her PhD thesis and is
> supervised by Dr. Joanna McGrenere (joanna-at-cs.ubc.ca). The study is
> being funded by IBM Centers for Advanced Studies and by the Natural
> Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).
>
> If you have any questions or comments, please contact:
>
> Leah Findlater, PhD Student
> UBC Department of Computer Science
> Email: lkf-at-cs.ubc.ca
> Tel: 604-827-3988
>
>
> Details on logging data:
> A log of your interaction history is collected. The log stores
> information about the program elements that you edit and navigate, but
> does not contain identifiable information about specific elements (e.g.
> the fact that you've navigated to a Java project is stored, but the
> specific name of that project is not recorded). No identifying
> information about you or about the system on which you are working is
> recorded or transmitted with the usage data. In addition, the views that
> you use to navigate and edit are recorded. When submitting the
> information you may be prompted to answer a very short questionnaire,
> and can choose whether or not to do so. You will also have the option of
> viewing the information that will be transmitted and aborting the
> transmission.
>
> After the study, the usage data will be stripped of all information
> identifying the participants, and we will use this data to determine
> what usage patterns exist across users and how we can use this to
> improve the organization of commands and functions in feature-rich user
> interfaces. Please note that the stripped usage data, containing no
> identification information, will be archived for future use, and may be
> made available to other researchers interested in improving the IDE user
> experience.
>
> Last updated: January 8, 2006
>
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