Comments on: Pongo – a inexpensive UI lab

By: Jan-Christoph Borchardt

Jan-Christoph Borchardt — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:43:35 +0000

Hey Andreas, I am continuing your work at https://launchpad.net/pongo – I hope that’s ok.

Thanks to you, Daniel, Olivier and Jan for this!

By: Ivanka

Ivanka — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:09:55 +0000

Brilliant! This is exactly what I need.

Being a user experience person with limited python skills I am wondering if there is anything I can do to help get this packaged for Ubuntu? Let me know. Happy to join in.

By: Brian Cameron

Brian Cameron — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 03:27:06 +0000

Works pretty well on Solaris, aside from the fact that it has “alsasink” hardcoded in it. If you changed it to use “gconfaudiosrc”, then it would load
the source from the GConf setting, and would be more portable, I think.

By: Glynn Foster

Glynn Foster — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:55:23 +0000

Awesome – btw, nice fan in the background noise. Could be useful for profiling too!

By: Giorgos

Giorgos — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:02:26 +0000

@Andreas:
Ermm my fault! I though I had istanbul installed but I didn’t. Nice work

By: Leonardo Fontenelle

Leonardo Fontenelle — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 12:33:38 +0000

Thanks, Pongo should be really important for us to do usability testing!

By: FOSDEM …. always great | hesa’s blog

FOSDEM …. always great | hesa’s blog — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:22:25 +0000

[...] Back to reality after a weekend in Brusselles and FOSDEM. As usual I attended few lectures but met many people. Andreas Nilsson thinking about pongo [...]

By: Andreas Nilsson

Andreas Nilsson — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:18:16 +0000

Giorgos: do you have Istanbul installed? it should install a gstreamer plugin for you.
try “gst-inspect-0.10 istximagesrc” in a terminal and see if it spits something back.

By: Frank

Frank — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:15:46 +0000

So simple it’s genius.

For future work, perhaps think about something like ‘eye tracking’ from the webcam video to get an idea where the user is looking. (Not necessarily as you record, but it could eg be done by a separate app later.)

By: Giorgos

Giorgos — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:10:37 +0000

Hey, good job! I didn’t manage to get it to work on my machine. I get this error. Maybe you can help?

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “pongo.py”, line 44, in
(out_file, out_w, out_h, v4l_device, cam_w, cam_h))
glib.GError: no element “istximagesrc”