= GnowsisEvaluation May-July 2006 - win a TShirt and more = The GnowsisEvaluation wants to find out how users actually '''use''' the Semantic Desktop. Therefor a Evaluation Logger was written to help DominikHeim do this in his diploma thesis (see http://wiki.heimwege.de for details). All the logged data is kept private and deleted after the diploma thesis is written. The data that will be published will be anonymous. You can chose what data you want to give away for the evaluation. Please consider using the log-level FINE or FINEST, to support the scientific work. == Capturing statistical data about the Semantic Desktop == For this evaluation, the gnowsis system writes down (logs) some activity data, how you interact with the system. During installation you can decide how much is logged. Note that gnowsis never sends this data to the DFKI, you are free to do that at the end of each month via e-mail. The log-files are plaintext and you can check the following explaination by looking at the files or directly to the open-source system. You can chose what data you want to give away for the evaluation. Please consider using the log-level FINE or FINEST, to support the scientific work. The Log-Level in detail are: * OFF – off ;-) * INFO – Only actions are logged (no data) * FINE – actions and (anonymous) data is logged * FINEST – actions and data is logged The log file will be create in your gnowsis home directory (e.g. C:\documents and settings\yourname\.gnowsis-beta\evaluation.log). In this file generic use data is collected (click-counts, which parts of the software you used) and if you decided to use log-level "FINEST" or "FINE", some personal data is collected. FINEST will capture some file-names and other personal information, which we will not communicate to anyone. == Evaluation Overview == * Use Gnowsis one month (may) * Get a Gnowsis update (end of may): During may we are again working hard to improve Gnowsis. Therefor your suggestions are welcome (You can use the "report a bug" button for your suggestions also) * Use Gnowsis another month (june) * Do a short (max 5 min!) questionnaire (online): The workshop participant already did the introduction questionaire. This questionnaire is about how Gnowsis met your expectations towards a Semantic Desktop application. The evaluation log files are not connected to the questionnaires. == Sending the data to Dominik == At the 29th of May, please send your data via e-mail to Dominik Heim ('''heim@dfki.uni-kl.de'''). The file is located in your home directory (C:\documents and settings\yourname\.gnowsis-beta\evaluation.log). As this file can grow very big, you might want to zip it beforehand. In this file generic use data is collected (click-counts, which parts of the software you used) and if you decided to use log-level "FINEST" or "FINE", some personal data is collected. FINEST will capture some file-names and other personal information, which we will not communicate to anyone. At the 26th of June, please send your data via e-mail to Dominik Heim ('''heim@dfki.uni-kl.de'''). The file is located in your home directory (C:\documents and settings\yourname\.gnowsis-beta\evaluation.log). As this file can grow very big, you might want to zip it beforehand. == Privacy == * We will only use your data for this evaluation and the corresponding diploma thesis !!! * Stored data only used for scientific research (statistical evaluation) * Data will not be passed on to a third party or another DFKI research lab in any way !!! * All data will be deleted afterwards * Published data (within diploma thesis) will be completely anonymous * The log files are not connected to the questionnaires. == Important Links == Your questions concearning... ...Evaluation Dominik Heim; '''heim@dfki.uni-kl.de''' and Danish Nadeem '''nadeem@dfki.uni-kl.de''' ...Installation, Suggestions, Bugs: Dominik Heim; '''heim@dfki.uni-kl.de''' ...Gnowsis Developement: Leo Sauermann; '''sauermann@dfki.uni-kl.de''' Download Gnowsis: http://www.gnowsis.org/Download/ More about the scientific experiment: http://gnowsis.opendfki.de/wiki/GnowsisEvaluation Gnowsis 0.9 step-by-step installation instruction: http://www.gnowsis.org/statisch/0.9/doc/installation.html Gnowsis 0.9 documentation: http://www.gnowsis.org/statisch/0.9/doc/ Gnowsis 0.9 user documentation: http://gnowsis.opendfki.de/wiki/GnowsisUsage Gnowsis 0.9 FAQ: http://gnowsis.opendfki.de/wiki/GnowsisFaq XML-RPC developing with gnowsis http://leobard.twoday.net/stories/1891141/ http://gnowsis.opendfki.de/wiki/XmlRpcDeveloping Report a Bug: http://gnowsis.opendfki.de/newticket Everything else: http://gnowsis.opendfki.de