HKUST Mouse track collection module

1. Mousetrack

This is a project with javascripts to collect interaction data with mouse/touch interaction record.

1.1 How it works

2. Usage

2.1 Backend

2.1.1 MongoDB required

• You need to install a MongoDB first because we need it to store data (In 2.1.3).
• Start and test your MongoDB, make sure it run well.

2.1.2 Parse server, choose 1 solution

Solution 1

• Use code (server folder) in this repository

Solution 2

• Clone a parse server example

    $ git clone https://github.com/parse-community/parse-server-example
  

2.1.3 Open app.js in parse server

Replace the following keys with yours in app.js and app.json

• databaseURI
• appId
• masterKey
• serverURL

Https related

Currently only support http.

2.1.4 Start parse server

• Start your parse server with npm start. $ npm start

• If you want to run it in background. $ nohup npm start &

2.2 Scripts

• We config mongodb collection, script path, appname(appId in parse server) and appkey(masterKey in parse server)

• Append the following code to your frontend of the footer in html.

    <script id="script_mousetrack" 
    collection="collectionName" 
    src="http://**YOUR PATH**/mousetrack.js"
    appname="appname"
    appkey="appkey"
    parseserver="http://**YOUR PATH**/parse"
    ></script>
  

Connection or help in collecting mouse interaction

hweiad[AT]connect.ust.hk

If you find this tool can be useful in your research, please consider citing:

@inproceedings{wei2020predicting,
title={Predicting student performance in interactive online question pools using mouse interaction features},
author={Wei, Huan and Li, Haotian and Xia, Meng and Wang, Yong and Qu, Huamin},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Learning Analytics \& Knowledge},
pages={645--654},
year={2020}
}