Instrumented GIMP To Identify Usability Flaws

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday July 10, 2007 @07:33AM from the phoning-home-in-a-good-cause dept.

Mike writes "New users of the GIMP often become frustrated at the application's unwieldy user interface. Now Prof. Michael Terry and a group of researchers at the University of Waterloo have created ingimp, a modified version of the GIMP that collects real-time usability data in order to help the GIMP developers find and fix its usability problems. Terry recently gave a lecture about ingimp and the data it collects. During each session, ingimp records events such as document creation, window manipulation, and tool use. A log of these events is sent to the ingimp server for analysis. The project hopes to answer questions such as 'What is the typical monitor resolution of a GIMP user?' and 'Is the GIMP used primarily for photo editing or drawing?'"

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Re:Scary by suv4x4 · 2007-07-10 12:32 · Score: 0, Redundant

Michael, please don't bother wasting your time arguing with the Photoshop fanatics. These guys are not interested in helping improve the state of free software, they are simply here to browbeat anyone who would consider using it instead of their beloved adobe products.

Did you miss the part where I said Krita is a lot better development than GIMP? How do you explain this.

"Photoshop fanatics"... jesus, you guys are desperate.