The GRUMPS research project is developing techniques and software to automatically collect, manage and analyse large collections of user actions. We have four interrelated goals:

  • To make it easy to organise experiments that efficiently and unobtrusively collect and curate traces of the actions of populations of remote users;
  • To make it easy to analyse repositories of such data in order to test hypotheses about the users' activities and the facilities provided to support them; and
  • To discover whether such an approach is effective in improving the quality of distributed information systems. We hope to initiate a community of researchers interested in exploring such methods. We therefore welcome communications from anyone with similar interests.
  • To trial these issues in specific application areas, such as education, usability evaluation and eScience.

EPSRC Project GR/N38114/01 (January 2001 - June 2004)

 
 
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