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

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 1083-1084

  Benson, Calum ^a   Müller Prove, Matthias ^a   Mzourek, Jiri ^a  

^a SUN MICROSYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

Multinational corporate environment; Open source software development; Usability

Indexed keywords

CORPORATE ENVIRONMENT; ENGINEERING METHODOLOGY; OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; OPEN SOURCES; OPENOFFICE.ORG; USABILITY; USABILITY PROFESSIONALS;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; INDUSTRY; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

USABILITY ENGINEERING;

EID: 84876772607     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/985921.985991     Document Type: Conference Paper

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