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This wiki space contains archival documentation of Project Bamboo, April 2008 - March 2013.
Collection Date: January 6, 2009
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Bamboo: a History Mechanism
What I would like to have readily available is a method for tracking the history of user activities within any given system. If I have a customizable way to store whatever someone does that changes state, ideally grouped by minor and major state changes, I can use it for three things:
providing the user with an un-do/re-do, or else a forward/back mechanism;
providing the user with a way to share state with other users;
providing the researcher with a log mechanism.
Since we do usability studies of our prototypes, the last option is particularly useful to use. I have had one of these components built for one of our prototypes. It worked very well for logging but was a custom component. It would be useful to have a robust generic one that could be plugged in to new projects.
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