On 2007 February 18 14:31, David Röthlisberger wrote:
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> Second, I would also like to do kind of empirical studies in the future
> to somehow validate the effectiveness and efficiency of new approaches
> for an IDE, hence I need subjects performing some experiments in these
> future IDEs and I also need data about how you use your IDE (e.g., how
> you browse source code, how and where you write source code, with which
> tools, etc.). Will you be willing to provide me with these data recorded
> by some non-invasive recordings tools you can simply load in your image
> and which will then save the recorded data to a file which you would
> then send to me? 

You can count me in. I am not sure I am the right subject though, although I 
have been coding for many years (out of which last 9 Java only), I am a 
Smalltalk amateur. But I am very interested in what could be done to make the 
IDE better, in fact I was thinking about making a video recording of my 5 
most confusing Squeak IDE actions (to name one, adding a new class while 
looking at an existing class still makes me madly clicking to make 
the "Object subclass:#name" to show :) )

> Are you also willing to perform some experiments in new 
> IDEs, e.g. trying and playing with them, use them for a project of
> yours, etc.?

Yes, although my project may not be a practical size...

Milan

> For me it is important to know if I can motivate enough people to do a
> serious empirical study. Without that, I would have a hard time to
> "prove" that a new approach to e.g. navigate source code is indeed
> useful and promising, because this is very much dependent on personal
> feelings and impressions. Only a broader study can hence "prove" the
> general usefulness (or uselessness) of such a new approach or metaphor.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Kind regards,
> David