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This is Ms. Swarna from Bangalore. I am a computer science graduate and am late way blind. Currently I am working as a Recruiter in a U.S it firm. My doubt is can I google for anything and record it and send. I hope the browsing the company portal might lose the confidentiality... Waiting for a reply, Regards, Swarna On 4/13/11, firoz <[email protected]> wrote: > my friend requested me so i am writing in behalf of him > > firoz > > I have a friend that is doing some research at North Carolina State > University on how screen reader users surf the internet. In his own > words: > “This is for research to be published in the Assets 2011 conference. > We want to analyze web browsing strategies and start developing > techniques for optimizing them, automatically discovering them, help > researchers explore them, etc.” > This is where I thought you could come in. What he’s asking, is for > volunteers to run a program to record the different keystrokes as they > browse the internet for at least 15 minutes. Here’s some important > information: > -Everything will be anonymous. All information that could be used to > identify you will be removed. > -All you have to do is browse the internet for 15 minutes (on any web > sites you want). Please nothing of an adult nature. All you have to > do is go to the web sites you normally go to, and do whatever you > normally do on them. > -The program will save a text file of the keys that you press, so you > can look through it and make sure that there’s nothing in there that > you don’t want anyone else to see. > -You have complete control over when the program is (and is not) > recording your keystrokes. > -Most of the analysis will be automated in a statistical program > environment called “R”. > -When you send your log file to me, you can ask that I remove all > information, so the person who is doing this study will have > absolutely no way of knowing who you are. > > Here’s what you have to do: > 1. Download the recorder program from: > http://sina.fi.ncsu.edu/rui.zip > > 2. Unzip the downloaded file to wherever you like. > 3. Go into the “rui” folder that just unzipped, and press enter on the > “Recorder.exe” file. > 4. Tab to the checkbox that reads “”mouse clicks”, and uncheck it with > spacebar. Do the same thing for the checkbox that reads “mouse > moves”. > 5. Press tab again to the “browse” button, and press enter. A normal > save file window comes up. Please save the file wherever you want, > and with whatever name you want. By default, it will save it in your > “my documents” folder; all you have to do once the window opens is > type in a name, and press enter. > 6. After the save file screen closes, you will be put back into the > “rui 2.03” window. Press tab until you get to the “Start recording” > button. > 7. Before pressing the “start recording” button, launch a web browser > window (that way, once the application starts to record, you can just > alt-tab to the window and start browsing). Popular web browsers are > Internet Explorer and Firefox. Please feel free to use whatever web > browser you like. > 8. In the “rui2.03” window, press enter on the “Start recording” > button, and then switch to your browser window. When browsing the > internet, please try to avoid entering any passwords. All passwords > will be removed, but it is just easier (and safer) if you don’t enter > any passwords when the program is recording your keystrokes. Please > do not close the “rui2.03” window, or it will not record your > keystrokes! > 9. After at least 15 minutes of browsing the internet, go to the > “rui2.03” window, and press enter on the “stop recording” button. > 10. If you would like to, you can go to the log file (by default in > your “my documents” folder), and look through it to see what the > application recorded. Please do not edit it unless you really need to > remove some information from it. > 11. Please email me the log file, and I will pass it along. My email > address if you don’t have it is > [email protected]. > As I said before, > if you would like me to, I can remove any personal information before > passing it on to the researcher. > > Please feel free to email me with any questions, or if you need any > help. There is a deadline for this research, so the sooner you can do > it, the better. > > Thanks for your help. > > Sean Mealin > > > > To unsubscribe send a message to > [email protected] > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please > visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > -- Swarna Recruiter[Arctern consulting, Bangalore] E-mail: [email protected] Skype: swarnalakshmi99 Ph: 09686038540 To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. 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