List of academic research on usability in foss github. View of the usability of open source software first monday. Usability in free software, a guide by janchristoph borchardt. Opinions and practice open source software oss development has gained significant. Download citation usability in open source software development. List of academic research on usability work and open source culture. Open source software oss development has gained significant. Ux practices are not necessarily valued by participants of. The opinions of several commentators and the actions of companies, such as suns. Open source software development processes, lack of average user involvement, and the culture of open source communities restrict usability in open source projects 17.
Perceptions and practices of usability in the freeopen source. Assuring quality and usability in open source software development. In the past 10 years, freeopen source software foss has grown to be. Twidale open source communities have successfully developed a great deal of software although most computer users only use. We then discuss how characteristics of open source software development influence the usability of the resulting software. Also the human computer interaction hci community has started to acknowledge oss development as an interesting object of study. Opinions and practice article in information technology and control 253 july 2008 with 2 reads how we measure reads. There are many ways to implement usability practices. Open source software developers have produced systems with a functionality that is competitive with similar proprietary software developed by commercial software organizations. Opensource software developers have created an array of amazing programs that. In open source software oss development, however, the com. Rather we want to consider potential barriers within existing oss practice that might then be addressed. Greenstone is an open source software system for building, maintaining and serving digital library collections 10.
Open source development, adoption and innovation pp 3318 cite. Third, the thesis identifies the parallels and differences between open source software development and closed source software development in order to identify how usability costs and benefits fit. Open source software oss, usability, empirical study, users, industry. Open source software oss development has gained significant importance in the production of software products. How do the open source communities address usability. Usability and opensource software development request pdf. Oss development is a current phenomenon both in information systems is research and practice. Opinions and practice morten sieker andreasen, henrik villemann nielsen, simon ormholt schroder, jan stage department of computer science aalborg university, denmark abstract.
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