[Sigia-l] Morae Summary

[Nate Bolt]

Thanks to everyone who responded with their first impressions of using Morae
for lab-based usability testing. Overall, it sounds like a great tool and it
seems to be the only real usability testing software with built-in recording
for under $1k that we know about. I've listed the pros and cons below:

| -- Pros --|
- Great automatic correlation of keystrokes, mouse clicks, window changing
events, etc., to user behavior.
- No significant impact on performance while recording the session and the
file created is extremely compact (compared to straight avi files, say).
- You can very quickly pull together highlights videos.

|-- Cons --|
- Can't actually record moderator comments keyed to the video. 
- Some difficulty getting the webcam bits working.
- Issues with getting the remote logger working (task start/end flags).

-Nate

  |--   nate bolt 
  |--   bolt peters user experience 
  |--   http://boltpeters.com 


| --- Original Post --- |
> 
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> Has anyone had a chance to use TechSmith's new product, 
> Morae, for lab-based
> usability testing? It was released earlier this month but I 
> think they beta
> tested with a lot of UE folks over the last few months. The 
> main feature
> we're excited to try out is the automatic correlation between 
> activity on
> the user's desktop and the video (both of the user's desktop 
> and facial
> expressions). 
> 
> http://techsmith.com/products/morae/
> 
> I'll post a summary of responses.
> 
> Thanks,
> Nate
> 
> 
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