Usability in company open source software context - Initial findings from an empirical case study

IFIP International Federation for Information Processing

Volumn 275, Issue , 2008, Pages 359-365

  Iivari, Netta ^a   Hedberg, Henrik ^a   Kirves, Tanja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE; EMPIRICAL CASE STUDIES; INTERPRETIVE CASE STUDIES; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; OPEN SOURCES; PAPER ANALYSIS; PATENTS AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES;

COMPETITION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INDUSTRY; PATENTS AND INVENTIONS; USABILITY ENGINEERING; USER INTERFACES;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

EID: 47849130628     PISSN: 15715736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-09684-1_33     Document Type: Conference Paper

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