Re: Interested in helping a research study on Eclipse?

[Mohsen Vakilian <mv...@illinois.edu>]

Hi,

We're happy to announce that CodingSpectator now supports Eclipse Indigo (3.7) -- 
the latest version of Eclipse.

We are looking for more participants. Your participation in our study will help to keep 
the Eclipse platform innovative. If you couldn't participate in the study because you 
had to use Indigo, you can now install CodingSpectator.

If you are interested, please sign up at 
<http://codingspectator.cs.illinois.edu/ConsentForm> to participate in our study.

We are thankful to those of you who have already participated in our study.

Regards,
Mohsen Vakilian

---- Original message ----
>Date: Wed,  8 Jun 2011 23:30:05 -0500 (CDT)
>From: Mohsen Vakilian <mv...@illinois.edu>  
>Subject: Interested in helping a research study on Eclipse?  
>To: common-dev@hadoop.apache.org
>Cc: Ralph Johnson <rj...@illinois.edu>, Balaji Ambresh 
<ra...@illinois.edu>, Roshanak Zilouchian <rz...@illinois.edu>, Stas Negara 
<sn...@illinois.edu>, Nicholas Chen <nc...@illinois.edu>
>
>Hi
>
>I'm Mohsen, a PhD student working with Prof. Ralph Johnson at the University of 
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Ralph is a co-author of the seminal book on 
design patterns (GoF) and his research group has a history of important contributions 
to IDE's.
>
>Our team [1] is studying how developers interact with the Eclipse IDE for evolving 
and maintaining their code. Since Hadoop comes with some Eclipse support [2], I 
assume that Eclipse has some users in the Hadoop community. Thus, we are 
extending this invitation to Hadoop developers and would greatly appreciate and value 
your participation and help in our research study.
>
>To participate you should be at least 18 years old and use Eclipse Helios for Java 
development. As a participant, we ask that you complete a short survey and install 
our Eclipse plug-in called CodingSpectator [3].
>
>CodingSpectator monitors programming interactions non-intrusively in the 
background and periodically uploads it to a secure server at UIUC. To get a 
representative perspective of how you interact with Eclipse, we would appreciate if 
you could install CodingSpectator for two months. Rest assured that we are taking 
the utmost measures to protect your privacy and confidentiality.
>
>If you are interested, you may sign up at 
<http://codingspectator.cs.illinois.edu/ConsentForm>, which contains our consent 
form with all the details and procedures of our research study.
>
>Your participation will help us greatly as we try to better understand how developers 
interact with their IDE's so we can propose improvements which fit better with their 
mindsets.
>
>Thanks in advance for your time! Please do not hesitate to contact me 
(mvakili2@illinois.edu) if you have any questions or comments. More information can 
also be found at our FAQ [4]. Feel free to forward this invitation to anyone who might 
be interested in participating in this study.
>
>--
>Mohsen Vakilian
>& the CodingSpectator team
>
>[1] http://codingspectator.cs.illinois.edu/People
>[2] http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/EclipsePlugIn
>[3] http://codingspectator.cs.illinois.edu
>[4] http://codingspectator.cs.illinois.edu/FAQ