A Research Framework for Performing User Studies and Rapid Prototyping of Intelligent User Interfaces Under the OpenOffice.org Suite

摘要

We introduce a research framework which enables to use the OpenOffice.org as a platform for HCI research, particularly for performing user studies or prototyping and evaluating intelligent user interfaces. We make two contributions: (1) we introduce an innovative hybrid logging technique which provides high-level, rich and accurate information about issued user commands, command parameters and used interaction styles. Our logging technique also avoids an unwanted requirement for further complex processing of logged user interface events to infer user commands, which must be performed on most loggers these days. (2) Our logging tool acts as a component object in OpenOffice.org with an easy-to-use Application Program Interface (API) which enables, along with deep OpenOffice.org programmability, to use OpenOf-fice.org as a research framework for developing and evaluating intelligent user interfaces.