Generic Events Plugin

This plug-in provides the means to apply our techniques to any further type of events. It is intended for platforms, for which the development of an own plug-in would be some kind of overkill. In addition, it is the result of several years of experience with the older plug-ins which showed, that in general for many types of applications, the same basic concepts apply. This is already reflected by the consistent data structures used within AutoQUEST. But also for the platform layer, we more and more saw that the platform specific events in general are not more than AutoQUEST internal events with a certain set of parameters. And this is mainly, what this plug-in is about. As other plug-ins, it consists of two artifacts:

1. Generic Event Monitor: A monitoring component that can be used to monitor any kind of events as long as they are events and have parameters.
2. autoquest-plugin-genericevents: A Java plug-in into the AutoQUEST Frontend that allows parsing of generic event data monitored with the Generic Event Monitor.

First, the Generic Event Monitor needs to be installed to record user behavior. Afterwards, the recorded data can be fed into AutoQUEST for further analysis using the autoquest-plugin-genericevents. The plugin was used to monitor and analyse the usage of VR applications. Details for this are described in Usage for VR Applications.