Mymory Evaluation

This wiki will be a scratch pad and contain a TODO list for people that will be involved in Mymory's context evaluation.

Software to be installed

• FirstSteps - By following the steps described there you will:
  • install UserObservationHub (please svn update if you already have an older version)
  • install ​Dragontalk: Observation plugins for Thunderbird and Firefox (please install the newest version)

• WindowsLoggerListener (Windows users only) - By following the steps described there you will:
  • install ​User Activity Logger
  • configure property file (./etc/userobservationhub.properties) to let UOH work with output of the User Activity Logger

• ScreenshotRecorder (optional) - By following the steps described there you will:
  • configure property file (./etc/userobservationhub.properties) to set the screenshot interval time or to deactivate the screenshot recorder

Part 1: Logging user actions, create a log file with NOPs

The first important part of the evaluation is the logging part. We need a log of your actions for some period - at least for a day, better for one week or so. To create this log and (iteratively) accumulate observed user actions, you just start / kill / restart the UOH:

• Start the UOH (via the batch file for example) and just "do what you gotta do"! ;-)
• Disabling UOH is not yet implemented - just kill the UOH (with multiple CTRL+C for example) - this will not harm anything! feel free to kill that beast whenever you want or have to!
• Restart UOH again any time.

Restarting the UOH is no problem. Observed user actions are always appended to the log file (userobservationhub_nops.log).

Part 2: Assign contexts to NOPs

The second important part is the manual assignment of the logged NOPs to the user's contexts.

To do so, Mymory created an "evaluation GUI", that eases this task.