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Professional usability in open source projects: GNOME, OpenOffice.org, NetBeans

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Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems archive
CHI '04 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems table of contents

Vienna, Austria

SESSION: HCl overviews table of contents

Pages: 1083 - 1084

Year of Publication: 2004

ISBN:1-58113-703-6

Authors

Calum Benson	Sun Microsystems Ireland Ltd., Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Matthias Muller-Prove	Sun Microsystems GmbH, Hamburg, Germany
Jiri Mzourek	Sun Microsystems Czech, Prague, Czech Republic

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SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction
ACM: Association for Computing Machinery

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Working as a usability professional in the open source arena is a challenging task. The decentralized and engineering-driven approach of open source projects can be at odds with corporate processes and usability engineering methodologies. Nonetheless, there is great potential for large corporations to contribute to open source projects. Providing usability know-how that leads to usable and useful products is a win-win situation for developers, the corporations, and -- most importantly -- the users.

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	1	Nancy Frishberg , Anna Marie Dirks , Calum Benson , Seth Nickell , Suzanna Smith, Getting to know you: open source development meets usability, CHI '02 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems, April 20-25, 2002, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA [doi>10.1145/506443.506666]
	2	Michael J. Karels, Commercializing Open Source Software, Queue, v.1 n.5, July/August 2003 [doi>10.1145/945074.945125]
	3	NetBeans.org: The User Interface Developer 's Corner. http://ui.netbeans.org
	4	Smith, S., Engen, D., Mankoski, A., Frishberg, N., Pedersen, N., and Benson, C.: GNOME Usability Study Report. Sun Microsystems, Inc., 2001. http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/usertesting.html
	5	Benson, C., Elman, A., Nickell, S., and Robertson, C.Z.: GNOME Human Interface Guidelines, 2002. http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/
	6	Chucri, L.: Breaking Down Barriers with GNOME 2.0, 2001. http://developer.gnome.org/feature/archive/accessibility/
	7	OpenOffice.org Conference 2003, Hamburg. http://marketing.openoffice.org/conference/
	8	OpenOffice.org Specification Project. http://specs.openoffice.org

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