Project : in-situ
Section: Software
Keywords : Window management, activity log.
Wmtrace
Participant : Olivier Chapuis [correspondant].
Wmtrace [52] includes two tools that help us the study of a user's window management activity. The first one runs in the background of an X Window session and continuously logs information about windows and how they are being manipulated. The second one uses a VCR-like interface (Figure 6) to replay the resulting logs and analyze the entire session. This tool provides several ways to filter the logs and extract high-level information, including interactive move events and mouse speed. Both tools allow HCI researchers to perform qualitative and quantitative statistical analyses of window management activity.
Wmtrace is freely available under the GNU General Public License (GPL) and the CeCILL licence. The log recorder compiles and runs on any X Window system (e.g. Linux or FreeBSD). The log viewer, written in Java, is more or less platform independent. Both software can be downloaded from http://insitu.lri.fr/~chapuis/software/wmtrace/.
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