Patent ID: 7912803

Claim:
A method of creating a session log for a computing device being studied for usability by a plurality of usability experts, the method comprising: displaying, by a usability engine to a plurality of usability experts, a usability observation video of a user interacting with a computing device during a usability session for studying the usability of the device; detecting, by an event listener on the computing device, an event generated as a result of user interaction with the device; notifying, by the event listener, the usability engine of the event; recording, by the usability engine, a description of the event in a session log; receiving, by the usability engine from at least one of the usability experts, usability observations regarding the usability of the device; and recording, by the usability engine, the usability observations in the session log, wherein the session log further comprises a table of one or more records, each record representing one of a usability observation or a detected event, each record associating a time of the observation or event, a source identifier identifying a source of the observation or event, an indication of a type of the record, and information describing the observation or event.