Collect Online User’s Interaction Data

[d141...@mydit.ie]

Hi everyone,

I need help and advice.

Within the scope of an academic experiment (master thesis), I need to collect user's interaction data while the user is performing a given task (in a web browser). What I mean with interaction data is mouse movement, scrolling, clicking, and focus.

I found jspsych and it will be really helpful for my experiment. However, it seems that I will have to add extra code in order to collect this type of data (mouse movement, scrolling, clicking, and focus)

Is anyone aware of an already existing JavaScript framework or tool that I could use with jspsych in the website I will develop to collect the user's on-line activity while performing the web tasks I will ask them to complete?

Thanks in advance!

[Josh de Leeuw]

I don't think there are any simple solutions for this. At least not that I can think of. If you want to collect this kind of data you'll need to create or modify plugin files to record the interactions that you want. Recording mouse movements, scrolling, and focus events itself is not that difficult. There are JavaScript events that you can attach handlers to for all of these.

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[d141...@mydit.ie]

On Wednesday, 10 August 2016 16:31:28 UTC+1, Josh de Leeuw wrote:
> I don't think there are any simple solutions for this. At least not that I can think of. If you want to collect this kind of data you'll need to create or modify plugin files to record the interactions that you want. Recording mouse movements, scrolling, and focus events itself is not that difficult. There are JavaScript events that you can attach handlers to for all of these.
>
>

Thanks Josh,

I am new to web programming/JavaScript and I have limited time and knowledge to develop something from scratch.

I think I am capable of adding/modifying plug-ins to jspsych in order to use JavaScript events. But it seems to be time consuming and I am afraid that I will never code a smooth solution in time due to my lack of experience with JavaScript (a lot of data can be generated and impacts on memory and performance will demand expert skills).

I would prefer to leverage something that already exists since I am not really aware of issues as performance, for instance.

[Daniel Soto]

From that perspective, maybe it would be useful for you to simply include external libraries into your JsPsych experiment.
You'll simply need to add 1 line of code per library in order to add them, example:

<script src="name_or_url_of_the_library"></script>

For example this one: https://github.com/mortzdk/recorder
(I haven't tested it myself, just pointing it out)

And then simply use the methods you need.

[d141...@mydit.ie]

Thanks for the recorder link suggested Daniel! It seems to be really useful for me :)

I will have a look.

Filipe