Cool. I'll read your Blog posts. Right now, the first dev+UX guy I can think of is David Siegel because he codes and he's a UX guy. Hmmmm
On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 01:04 -0500, Máirín Duffy wrote: > On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 13:53 +0800, Allan Caeg wrote: > > Hello UX people! > > > > I'm looking for a top-notch user testing tool like Morae. As an open > > source enthusiast, I want something that works on Linux (specifically, > > on GNOME). As a person with a tight budget, I want something affordable. > > > > Among many other features, Morae ( http://www.techsmith.com/morae.asp ) > > records a video of the user while using the product via webcam along > > with the voice (for the think aloud protocol), and the screencast. > > > > I want to do those with open source software for work and open source > > contributions. What tool can you suggest? If there's no equivalent tool, > > is there an easy way to consolidate different open source apps like > > gtk-recordmydesktop, the Sound Recorder, Cheese, etc, to make them work > > as an all-in-one user testing tool like Morae? > > If you have the streams from cheese / recordmydesktop / soundrecorder > you can put them together using gstreamer. I have a portable usability > lab [1] that uses a DVR to gather video & audio - but the gstreamer > pipeline I use [2] for constructing my videos could be modified fairly > easily for your case if you've already got the media you want. The > challenge here of course is obtaining streams that are synched correctly > - it would be hard to press record on all at exactly the same time so > you might be better off scripting existing command-line tools to do it, > and making a gui to kick off the script. > > At the GNOME Boston Summit there was some interest in potentially > putting together a GUI tool to do this but unfortunately my bad - I > didn't follow up after my talk they expressed interest in and I don't > know their names. > > Do you know of any developers who would be willing to put together this > kind of app? I would be interested in getting involved but I don't have > coding chops (although I'm getting good poking at gstreamer pipelines > along the lines of what you would need) - maybe we should put together > some mockups of what we are looking for in such a gui tool and nag a > developer to help us out? > > ~m > > [1] > http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/08/26/open-source-portable-usability-testing-lab/ > (don't use the pipeline here it's old) > [2] > http://blogs.gnome.org/halfline/2009/10/11/video-4-way-split-screen-gstreamer-pipeline/ > (the usability lab module link there is the one to use) > _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
