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Open Source Usability Bibliography (34)

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Selected Articles

• Eric S. Raymond: The Cathedral and the Bazaar, 1998
• Frishberg, N., Dirks, A. M., Benson, C., Nickell, S., Smith, S.: Getting to Know You: Open Source Development Meets Usability. In: CHI 2002, Minneapolis, MI. ACM Press, 2002. doi.acm.org/10.1145/506443.50666
• David M. Nichols, Michael B. Twidale: The Usability of Open Source Software, firstmoday 2003
  
• Calum Benson, Matthias Müller-Prove, Jiri Mzourek: Professional Usability in Open Source Projects: GNOME, OpenOffice.org, NetBeans. 2004
• Tom Chi: OSS S.O.S. - How HCI Killed Open Source in OK/Cancel, July 2004
• Calum Benson: Meeting the challenge of open source software usability. In Interfaces 60 ^{32 pages, 1 MB}. 2004
• Rashmi Sinha: Open Source Usability: The birth of a movement, April 2005
• Ron Goldman, Richard P. Gabriel: Innovation Happens Elsewhere – Open Source as Business Strategy. 2005
• Mühlig, Jan: Open Source und Usability. In: Bärwolff, Matthias / Gehring, Robert A. / Lutterbeck, Bernd (eds): Open Source Jahrbuch 2005. p. 87-94, 2005 
• Luyin Zhao, Fadi P. Deek: Exploratory inspection: a learning model for improving open source software usability. CHI 2006
• Jan Mühlig, Celeste Lyn Paul: OpenUsability.org. In interfaces 66, Spring 2006
• Yeats, Dave: Open-Source Software Development and User-Centered Design: A Study of Open-Source Practices and Participants, PhD., 2006
  
• Ellen Reitmayr: Einbeziehung von Usability-Experten in Open-Source-Community-Projekte: Erfahrungen aus dem OpenUsability-Projekt. In Open Source Jarhbuch 2007, p 289-298
• Matthias Müller-Prove: User Experience Cyberspace, GullFOSS, 2007