Re: [Usability] Cheap Open Source Morae Alternative

[Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandriva com>]

Le 09/12/2009 07:04, Máirín Duffy a écrit :
> 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?

Here is also some ideas we experimented long time ago at Mandriva :

http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/UsuabilityLabsSetup

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Frederic Crozat
Mandriva