[Corpora-List] Concordancer user logging

[Przemek Kaszubski]

Dear All,

In our school we are working on a version of an in-house online 
concordancer that would log information about each registered user's 
concordancing session, such as the search type and expression (incl. 
syntax errors), (re-)sorting options, (sub)corpora selected, wide 
context viewing etc. I am planning to combine such logs with 
screen-recording and/or key-logging as well as with some tasks + 
possibly questionnaire/thinkaloud procedures in order to study: 1) 
users' effectiveness in  concordancing (e.g. in adjusting search type to 
resolve the task at hand etc.); 2) the concordancer's functionality and 
ways to improve it.

The precise procedure and research questions of my (quasi?)experiment 
are yet to be established. However, I would like to ask if anyone would 
know of similar research based on logging/recording users of concordancers?

I welcome any relevant pointers, suggestions (also for screen recording 
and key-logging software, concording functions to look for etc.), or 
comments.

Many thanks in advance,

Przemek

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