Understanding how and why open source contributors use diagrams in the development of ubuntu

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 995-1004

  Yatani, Koji ^a   Chung, Eunyoung ^b   Jensen, Carlos ^b   Truong, Khai N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagramming; Open source software (OSS); Software development; Visual representation

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION AND COLLABORATIONS; DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS; DIAGRAMMING; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; POTENTIAL SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT EFFORT; VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS;

COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; HUMAN ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 84892448400     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1518701.1518853     Document Type: Conference Paper

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