Kiosk Logging Tool
With an effort to quantitatively understand what people do in rural
kiosks; we have adapted an existing tool developed at MSR Redmond (VibeLog) to be able to monitor
rural kiosk usage.
The tool collects usage statistics anonymously and gathers specific information,
like how long the kiosk is ON every day, how many users/day, what applications
they are visiting etc.
The goal is to give an objective estimate about the utility of kiosks in
these challenging rural conditions.
Publications:
Veeraraghavan, R.,
Singh, G., Toyama, K. and Menon, D. Kiosk Usage Measurement using a Software
Logging Tool, IEEE/ACM Int’l Conf. on Information & Communication
Technologies for Development, 2006.
Veeraraghavan,
R., Singh, G., Pitti, B., Smith, G., Meyers, B and Toyama, K. Towards
Accurate Measurement of Computer Usage in a Rural Kiosk. Third International
Conference on Innovative applications of Information Technology for Developing
World – Asian Applied Computing Conference, Nepal, December 2005.
For more information about the tool: send email and/or read
the paper.