Max Kiesler - Designer, SOMA San Franciso

MoveLogger - Visualizing Recorded Mouse Movements Most of us who blog have statistical analysis programs to show us our website traffic. Many of the current programs let you see session data on each visitor that visits your website which includes, the pages they visited, and in some cases how long they spent on each page. The next step would be to see their mouse movements, keystrokes and the links that they click on. MoveLogger does exactly that. As the developer stated, "The cool thing is that you can replay these movements afterwards. The movelogger records clicks on links and other elements. In replay mode the events are fired in the exact same order as they have been recorded. That way it would be possible to record a websesion (the click-flow) in a heavy AJAX based application. It would even be possible to record keyboard strokes and other type of events." This would be a great human computer interaction tool as you could use this code on a beta site instead of standard user interaction testing or eye tracking studies. Simply install this code on your pages and view exactly what the test subjects do. I'm not suggesting never using full scale user tests, I'm just saying if you're a start up or individual with limited funds this may be a good option for seeing what your beta testers do on your site, with no formal analysis of this data. The entire script is coded in javascript using Prototype and script.aculo.us with some php code on the server side. The source code has not been released yet, however, I have requested it.
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