Re: [Usability] Gnome Research - Sociological Surveys

[Celeste Lyn Paul <celeste kde org>]

On Friday 17 April 2009 02:51:07 pm Florian Ludwig wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 10:22 -0400, Celeste Lyn Paul wrote:
> > Also should ask education, country, primary language, OS language, if
> > they have a laptop/computer/both, etc. so you can get a profile of the
> > type of user they might be.
>
> I like this points. The "os language" question is one that could be
> answered by a script, so brings up another idea of having some tool for
> some basic data mining, an idea that came up here several times before I
> think but never got implemented, does it? I definitely think there are
> lots of interesting questions about current desktop use that could be
> answered by a script.
>
> For example check out  Kirk Bridger's post from about a week ago and
> this wikipage he wrote about this matter:
> http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/UserResearch

A while back Ted Gold from Canonical was looking in to collecting general 
environment information for data crunching to see how users changed default 
settings. Not sure if he is on the list or if he continued with that work.

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Celeste Lyn Paul
KDE Usability Project
usability.kde.org