InspectorWidget is an opensource suite to track and analyze users behaviors in their applications.

The key contributions of InspectorWidget are:

1. it works on closed applications that do not provide source code nor scripting capabilities;
2. it covers the whole pipeline of software analysis from logging input events to visual statistics through browsing and programmable annotation;
3. it allows post-recording logging; and 4) it does not require programming skills. To achieve this, InspectorWidget combines low-level event logging (e.g. mouse and keyboard events) and high-level screen features (e.g. interface widgets) captured though computer vision techniques.

InspectorWidget is targeted at end users, usability experts, user experience and HCI researchers.

For more information, please read: Christian Frisson, Sylvain Malacria, Gilles Bailly, and Thierry Dutoit. 2016. InspectorWidget: A System to Analyze Users Behaviors in Their Applications. In Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '16). ACM, pp 1548-1554. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2851581.2892388 HAL: https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01418184

InspectorWidget is composed of three tools:

• Collector: Record (screen), Log (input events + accessibility)
• Iterator: Browse (screen + input events), Program (annotations), Analyze (worflows)
• Processor: Automate (annotations)

Ready-to-use applications are available for Collector and Iterator currently only for macOS 10.9+.

First clone the repository. Then open a terminal in the source directory to update all submodules:

git submodule update --init --recursive

Then follow the instructions for each tool in their README.md files.

The InspectorWidget suite is released under the terms of the GPLv3 license.

• Christian Frisson (initially University of Mons, then Inria Lille - Nord Europe, now University of Calgary): creator and main developer
• Gilles Bailly (CNRS, Sorbonne Université): contributor
• Sylvain Malacria (Inria Lille - Nord Europe): contributor