News

September 1, 2007

We are pleased to announce that ingimp has been ported to the Mac (Intel machines only, at this point). Please proceed to the downloads section to grab a copy!

We now also have precompiled RPM's available for i386 and AMD64 systems. Get yours today!

What is ingimp?

ingimp is a version of the GNU Image Manipulation Program that has been instrumented to collect real-time usability data. It is not a plug-in but a complete, standalone version of the GIMP. All usability data is automatically transmitted to this website for anyone to download and analyze. We also provide our own analyses (see below). ingimp is part of human-computer interaction (HCI) research at the University of Waterloo investigating new forms of sustainable open usability.

Downloads

Jump straight to the downloads to grab a copy of ingimp for Windows or UNIX.

Sample Stats

To date, from the time of ingimp's public release (May 5, 2007), there have been 839 ingimp installations and 5061 logs uploaded, representing 3645 hours of ingimp being open and 584933 commands applied. Jump to Stats to see more analyses of ingimp usage.

Say hello to the ingimp community

Not only do we provide numerical summarizations of overall ingimp usage, we also provide personalized mirrors of your own personal, usage. Each ingimp user has an online persona that grows to reflect how they use ingimp. For example, if you are an artist who makes heavy use of the pencil tool, your persona will be seen clutching a pencil. Just use ingimp as you would the normal version of the GIMP and use the "Website + Stats" button at start-up to view your own persona along with a summary of your own usage of ingimp.

The great thing about personas is that we can take a group photograph. Below is a snapshot of all current ingimp users:

group shot

 

How can I learn more and get involved?

There are multiple ways to get going with inigmp: