ingimp: Introducing instrumentation to an end-user open source application

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 607-616

  Terry, Michael ^a   Kay, Matthew ^a   Van Vugt, Brad ^a   Slack, Brandon ^a   Park, Terry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Avatars; Free software; GIMP; GPL; Open source usability; OSS; Personas

Indexed keywords

APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; OPEN SYSTEMS; USER INTERFACES;

AVATARS; FREE SOFTWARE; GIMP; GPL; OPEN SOURCE USABILITY; OSS; PERSONAS;

INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 57649155425     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1357054.1357152     Document Type: Conference Paper

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