Section: Software
Wmtrace
Participant : Olivier Chapuis [correspondant] .
Wmtrace [42] includes two tools that help us study an individual user's window management activity. The first tool runs in the background of an X Window session and continuously logs information about windows and how they are being manipulated. The second uses a VCR-like interface (Figure 7 ) to replay the resulting logs and analyze the entire session. This tool provides several ways to filter the logs and extract high-level information, including interactive move events and mouse speed. Both tools allow HCI researchers to perform qualitative and quantitative statistical analyses of window management activity.