[hibernate-dev] Interested in helping a research study on Eclipse?

[Mohsen Vakilian]

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. We are extending 
this invitation to expert Java developers and would greatly appreciate and value your participation and help in our research 
study. We know that some of you use IntelliJ IDEA to contribute to Hibernate. And, we're sending an invitation to this mailing 
list just in case some of you use Eclipse for contributing to open source projects.

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 [2].

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 at illinois.edu) if you have any questions or 
comments. More information can also be found at our FAQ [3]. 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://codingspectator.cs.illinois.edu
[3] http://codingspectator.cs.illinois.edu/FAQ