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| <span style="color:#999999">UBC Department of Computer Science<br> |
| 201-2366 Main Mall, Vancouver, B.C., V6T 1Z4<br> |
| http://www.cs.ubc.ca <br> |
| 604-822-3061</span></td> |
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| <h4 align="center" style="text-align:center">Mylar Preview Release User Study |
| Invitation<font color="#888888"> *</font> </h4> |
| <p>We are happy to announce the v0.3 preview release of Mylar (<a style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single" href="http://eclipse.org/mylar">http://eclipse.org/mylar</a>). |
| Mylar monitors programming activity and extends the Eclipse UI to focus on the |
| elements of interest. This preview release is available to anyone willing to participate in a user study. |
| You have been invited to participate because you previously expressed interest |
| in Mylar. The study |
| will help us validate, harden and improve the usability of the tool before we make |
| it generally available from eclipse.org. Participating in this study will |
| require minimal time from you, as it simply involves using Mylar for your daily |
| work. You are free to stop using the tool at any time.</p> |
| <p>To use Mylar you <i>must</i> running on a |
| <a href="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp">Java 5 VM</a> and using |
| <a href="http://download.eclipse.org/downloads/drops/R-3.1-200506271435/index.php">Eclipse 3.1</a>, |
| do not install otherwise. As |
| you work Mylar will monitor your interaction with Eclipse by logging the IDs |
| of views that you use, editors that you work with, commands that you invoke, and |
| preferences that you change. Mylar also generates statistics about the program |
| elements that you edit and navigate, but removes any private information |
| identifying those elements by obfuscating their names and paths. |
| Approximately once every four days you will be asked to confirm an upload of |
| this interaction log to a UBC server, will have the opportunity to review all of the information being sent, and to answer a short |
| questionnaire. You will also have the option to remain anonymous |
| throughout the study.</p> |
| <p>The study is composed of three phases. After a sufficient amount of |
| interaction data has been collected for each phase, around 10 days of 'typical' |
| programming activity, you will be prompted to upgrade to the next phase.</p> |
| <ul> |
| <li>Phase 0: This will only track plain Eclipse usage to create a baseline, |
| <i>no Mylar features</i></li> |
| <li>Phase 1: Mylar features providing degree of interest facilities to standard |
| Eclipse views</li> |
| <li>Phase 2: Predicted interest facilities and active versions of some |
| standard Eclipse views</li> |
| <li>Phase 3: Experimental features</li> |
| </ul> |
| <p>To start Phase 0, use Eclipse's update manager to install the Mylar Monitor |
| feature (Help menu -> Software Updates -> Find and Install -> Search for new |
| features to install, then add the URL below Mylar as a New Remote Site called |
| "Mylar phase0", click Finish, and proceed through the installation wizard):</p> |
| <p> <b>www.cs.ubc.ca/~mylar/alpha/baseline </b> </p> |
| <p>You are free to start the study anytime over the next two weeks, and if you |
| would like to join later just let us know. If you experience any problems |
| installing or using Mylar |
| <a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/enter_bug.cgi?product=Mylar">please |
| submit a report</a>, as we will be releasing frequent updates. To receive further announcements about the user study and future releases |
| <a href="http://eclipse.org/mylar">please sign up for the mylar-announce list</a>. If you |
| participate in the study we suggest |
| that you <a href="http://eclipse.org/mylar">sign up for the mylar-users list</a>. |
| If you have plans to develop or extend Mylar we ask that you wait until you have |
| completed Phase 2, and sign up for the developer list after that point. If you have any |
| other questions simply reply this email. </p> |
| <p>Thanks and stay in touch,</p> |
| <p>The Mylar Team</p> |
| <p><span style="font-size:8.0pt;line-height:130%;color:#999999">* UBC Study |
| title: Using Interaction History to Determine Interesting Information in a |
| Development Environment. There are no known risks associated with this study. |
| After the study, this interaction history will be stripped of all information |
| identifying non-anonymous subjects, and we will use this data to determine what |
| Mylar views are useful, and to determine whether Mylar makes it easier to work |
| on large systems in Eclipse. We also plan on making this anonymous usage data |
| available to other researchers interested in improving the IDE user experience. |
| Please note that the data collected will be archived for future use. This data |
| will be anonymous and not contain any identification information. This study is |
| being conducted by Mik Kersten (beatmik-at-cs.ubc.ca) as a part of his PhD Thesis |
| and supervised by Dr. Gail Murphy (murphy-at-cs.ubc.ca). If you have any questions |
| about the data being collected or about the study in general please email us or |
| call Mik Kersten at 604-822-0193.</span></p> |
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