Re: Fwd: FLOSS and usability workshop at CHI 2010
Charline <[email protected]>
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Calum Benson wrote: > 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 :/) > Yes, I have. Not sure abou the title yet. What would you need? Sorry for the late response. C. > Thanks, > Calum. > > On 6 Nov 2009, at 21:00, Stormy Peters wrote: > > >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Paula Bach <[email protected]> >> Date: Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 1:47 PM >> Subject: FLOSS and usability workshop at CHI 2010 >> To: [email protected] >> >> >> 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 [email protected]. >> >> More information about the workshop can be found at the workshop website: >> http://flosshci.org. Questions about the workshop can be directed to >> [email protected]. >> >> 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 >> [email protected] >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability >> > > -- *CHARLINE POIRIER* *User Research Programme Lead* *Canonical* *27th floor, 21-24 Millbank Tower* *London SW1P 4QP UK * *Tel: +44 (0) 20 7630 2491* *Mob: +44 (0) 78 8695 4514* *www.Ubuntu.com <http://www.Ubuntu.com/> <http://www.Ubuntu.com/>* *www.Canonical.com <http://www.Canonical.com/>*