Hi! Will the results of the study be made publicly available and freely (re-)usable? Cheers nils Am 03.10.2011 11:30, schrieb Neal H. Walfield: > Hello world! > > We at the Hopkins Storage Systems Lab (HSSL) are trying to understand > how you, the tech elite, access and use data and how you access the > Internet on mobile devices. We are interested in you, because we > think that your data-use habits may be indicative of what might become > common in a few years time. > > We want to understand how you access and use data on mobile devices to > improve the user experience on mobile devices. Specifically, we want > to: > > - Improve disconnected operation; > - Make accessing data faster; > - Increase battery life; > - Reduce network connectivity costs; and, > - Simplify data management. > > We suspect that significant amounts of data that you use are > downloaded on demand and that this data could be effectively > prefetched. Although prefetching sounds easy enough, there are a > number of issues that need to be considered: when should data be > prefetched? what data should be prefetched? how do we avoid exhausting > free space? how do we enable applications to coordinate the use of > shared resources? > > To this end, we are conducting a user study. We'd like you to > participate by running our data collection software, which gathers > information about the data you use, your network connectivity, and > your battery use. > > To help by running the data collection software, which should take > about 10 minutes to install and not require any further interactions > on your part, please visit, on your N900: > > http://hssl.cs.jhu.edu/~neal/woodchuck/smart-storage-logger.install > > or: > > http://tinyurl.com/wcssl > > For more information about Woodchuck, please visit: > > http://hssl.cs.jhu.edu/~neal/woodchuck/ > > Much of the data that we collect will be anonymized. No personally > identifying data will be published. Data collection will last for > approximately one year. > > Anyone with a compatible device may run the data collection software. > Your participation in this experiment is entirely voluntary. Should > you choose to participate, your data will be kept confidential to the > extent possible by law. Only researchers involved in this study will > see collected data. Published data will not include identifying > artifacts (i.e., we will make every effort to prevent the identify of > participants from being determined from the data we publish). > Encryption will be used to transfer collected data and to verify the > server to which that data is uploaded. > > If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to contact me at > neal@xxxxxxxxxx or Randal Burns, the principle investigator, at > randal@xxxxxxxxxx. Your assistance in helping us meet our research > goals would be greatly appreciated. > > > Thanks for your help! > > Neal Walfield > > > P.S. This study is research. You will not receive any direct benefits > from participating in this study. This study may benefit society if > the results lead to a better understanding of how data is used on > mobile devices. The study is taking place at the Whiting School of > Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University in the United States. The > principle investigator is Randal Burns: > > Email: randal(at)cs.jhu.edu > Phone: 410.516.7708 > Mailing Address: > Department of Computer Science > The Johns Hopkins University > 222 New Engineering Building > Baltimore, MD 21218 > USA > > Approved by HIRB on November 18, 2010 > HIRB Study number: 111910 -- kernel concepts GbR Tel: +49-271-771091-12 Sieghuetter Hauptweg 48 D-57072 Siegen Mob: +49-176-21024535 http://www.kernelconcepts.de _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
