I'm just writing up the Q4 Usability team report for Stormy, and wondering if anybody submitted a paper for this that I could mention? (I'd hoped to, but didn't quite get around to it :/)
Thanks, Calum. On 6 Nov 2009, at 21:00, Stormy Peters wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Paula Bach <pb...@illinois.edu> > Date: Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 1:47 PM > Subject: FLOSS and usability workshop at CHI 2010 > To: sto...@gnome.org > > > Hi Stormy, > > I thought you'd like to know about this workshop I am organizing with a > colleague who also does research with open source and usability. Please > forward the call to people in the GNOME community who might be interested. > > Thanks, > Paula > > ======================================================================== > ACM CHI 2010 Workshop on > Free/Libre/Open Source Software and HCI > > April 11, 2010, Atlanta, GA, USA > > Submission deadline: December 14, 2009 > http://flosshci.org > ======================================================================== > > In the past 10 years, Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) has become a > ubiquitous and vital force in business, education, government, and research. > This vibrant new community of software developers creates new opportunities > and challenges for HCI that are only beginning to be explored and > understood. > > This workshop will: > * identify key differences between FLOSS environments and closed source > software production with respect to culture, practices, and motivations for > HCI, > * examine how these differences can (or should) impact the design of tools > and practices for usability/UX in FLOSS development, and > * explore the development of new theoretical approaches, tools, and > practices for HCI in the FLOSS community. > > An important, overarching goal of the workshop is to bring the two > communities together to explore collaboration opportunities. As such, the > workshop invites practitioners and researchers in both the CHI and FLOSS > communities. > > Interested individuals should submit one of the following in a two-page > conference publication format: > > * A case study describing experiences in introducing and/or practicing > usability/UX in a FLOSS development context > * A summary of research conducted in the FLOSS community related to the > workshop’s theme (for example, understanding motivations of designers in > FLOSS, mapping design conversations, design tools and methods used in FLOSS, > etc.) > > Submissions should use the HCI Archive Format template found here: > http://www.chi2010.org/authors/format.html#archiveformat > > Deadline for submissions is December 14, 2009. Submissions should be emailed > to floss...@gmail.com. > > More information about the workshop can be found at the workshop website: > http://flosshci.org. Questions about the workshop can be directed to > floss...@gmail.com. > > Workshop organizers: > Paula Bach (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) > Michael Terry (University of Waterloo, Canada) > > > Paula Bach > Computing Innovation Postdoctoral Research Fellow > Graduate School of Library and Information Science > University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign > http://cscl.ist.psu.edu/public/users/pbach/index.html > _______________________________________________ > Usability mailing list > Usability@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.ben...@sun.com OpenSolaris Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list Usability@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
