Hi Sridhar,
No need for confusion, we are working on the same implementation of
collection of
usage statistics, as we have similar requirements.
I have been coordinating with Aleksey to accomodate our requirements
with his work.
The only difference I see is that in Peru we can't count on having a
schoolserver so the
client will have to cache some data.
Locally, for the previous study we collected journals, browser and error
logs [1].
Now user interaction events will be specifically recorded for research
and feedback.
An implementation of this functionality at the Sugar level (or X11+dbus)
will facilitate research on use and metrics for improvement of the
user's learning
experience.
It would be wonderful if researchers could agree on what metrics we
would require to
measure. I'm proposing from our previous experience to begin with
Activity Focus / unfocus
as well as start/stop as a reference.
I have been following OLPC-AU's process and consider your experience a
model for
the Puno startup deployment.
I am cc'ing Julián Cristia who is an economist working with the IADB and
one of the
authors of quite an extensive Experimental Assessment of OLPC Peru [2].
Also cc'ing the Puno team.
Warm regards,
Sebastian
[1] http://git.sugarlabs.org/recolectar-datos
[2] http://idbdocs.iadb.org/wsdocs/getdocument.aspx?docnum=35422036
<http://git.sugarlabs.org/recolectar-datos>
El 27/11/11 17:43, Sridhar Dhanapalan escribió:
I'm confused - there seem to be two implementations of what looks to
be the same thing!
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Server_Kit/Usage_Statistics#Monitor
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Statistics_gathering
Aleksey's (the first link) is being developed with input from OLPC
Australia. We are engaged with respected academic researchers to
professionally evaluate educational outcomes from our XOs. Ethics and
privacy issues are being taken care of. We hope that what we are
building here can be of benefit to the wider Sugar community as well.
It might be a good idea if we could pool our talents around one implementation.
Sridhar Dhanapalan
Engineering Manager
One Laptop per Child Australia
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