AppMonitor: A Tool for Recording User Actions in Unmodified Windows Applications

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AppMonitor: A Tool for Recording User Actions in Unmodified Windows Applications

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This paper describes AppMonitor, a Microsoft Windows based client-side logging tool that records user actions in unmodified Windows applications. AppMonitor allows researchers to gain insights into many facets of interface interaction such as command use frequency, behavioural patterns prior to or following command use, and methods of navigating through systems and datasets. AppMonitor uses the Windows SDK libraries to monitor both low level interactions such as “left mouse button pressed” an...

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Research paper

Research format

Journal article

Date created

2008

Creator

Alexander, J. / Cockburn, A. / Lobb, R.

URL

http://hdl.handle.net/10092/731

Related subjects

event logging / client-side logging / human-computer interaction / Fields of Research::280000 Information, Computing and Communication Sciences::280100 Information Systems::280104 Computer-human interaction

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