Of course, this would be an opt-in clause? AKA a "Would you like to send your anonymous usage data to LL to help with improving our UI?" popup during the first run of the program. (DO NOT use the text I just wrote!! :P )
A lot of programs I use ask that question. Admittedly, I tend to hit "no" by default, but it would help prevent people from complaining about LL spying on them... (Ridiculous, I know!) Ricky aka Cron Stardust On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Moriz Gupte <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey there, I am starting a new thread as a response to your suggestion. > This idea resonates with a lot of us but for some reason did not follow > through whenever it was raised (the one time I remember was a post on > SLViews last year). > I think shortcuts to rapid decisions e.g. votes work but it comes with some > campaigning distractions.. > There are well developed click path analyses, click through evaluations out > there...and we could get inspired from them. I think gaze based evals > (fixation/dwell analyses) have their place too and is to expected in a > bleeding edge metaverse platform company. > Extracting Usability Information from User Interface > Events<http://www.fxpal.com/publications/FXPAL-PR-00-162.pdf>Eventseer.net > - Understanding the user - logging and interpreting user interactions in > information search and retrieval <http://eventseer.net/e/10343/> DATA > LOGGING: HIGHER-LEVEL CAPTURING AND MULTI-LEVEL ABSTRACTING OF USER > ACTIVITIES <http://linc.cs.vt.edu/papers/2000/HeNeIsCa-Logging-HFES/> > I think with Melinda's approach which she mentioned could be done fairly > quickly would be a fantastic start. We could look into patterns of clicks, > eliminate UI interactions, coalesce functions and so on. > I imagine this approach should already be taking at LL so this info may be > redundant. > > Ramesh > > I think Melinda Green has a great idea to collect usage data on the user > interface, it would give a lot of information on how it is being used. I > would expand it a bit and save all interactions (with the UI) sequential. > That way we can also learn which actions are taken after each other, if it > turn out button A and Z are always pressed after one another we could create > button AZ and simplify. We might want to start a new chain to discuss this. > > > Jeroen Frans >> Executive Director >> TheVesuviusGroup.com >> SL: Frans Charming >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: >> http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLDev >> Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting >> privileges >> > > > > -- > Rameshsharma Ramloll PhD Research Assistant Professor Idaho State > University, PocatelloTel: 208-282-5333 > Bio: http://snipurl.com/3p5ap , LinkedIn profile: http://snipurl.com/3p5o2, > Blog: > http://snipurl.com/3p5op , Play2Train: http://www.play2train.org > ----- > The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of > knowledge- Stephen Hawking and many others who found light through the > cracks of knowledge. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: > http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLDev > Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting > privileges >
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