Records mouse activity and suggest topics of interest? [closed]

Question

Is there any way to collect users mouse activity in browser?

I need this information, so as I can suggest some topics which user might be interested in.

I am planning to gather some information over duration of time and then analyze the data and suggest some interests...

I am not sure how to approach this...

Things that I already thought about:

• collect mouse activity (like user highlights certain portion of text or searches for text on page).
• We can collect upto 1000 such actions on page and then send the summarized data(based on some browser side pre-prossesing like find out common repeated words in text) to the server.
• Reset the buffer and start collecting again.
• In server memory keep list of 25 most relevant topics for each user.
• Use something like Priority Queue data structure on server to maintain top list
• Based on javascript asynchronous request of collected data, update the top 25 list.

Answer 1

I dont think you need to track the mouse in order to make suggestions. It is enough to track what the users clicks on the page and how much time he/she spends reading a specific page.

You are seeing it from a technical perspective (how do I make the mouse work for my needs) instead of a UX perspective (what techniques can I use to accomplish what I need).