Major HCI challenges for open source software adoption and development

Authors:
Nikos Viorres;Papadopoulos Xenofon;Modestos Stavrakis;Evangelos Vlachogiannis;Panayiotis Koutsabasis;John Darzentas
Affiliations:
University of the Aegean - Department of Product and Systems Design Engineering, Greece, GR;University of the Aegean - Department of Product and Systems Design Engineering, Greece, GR;University of the Aegean - Department of Product and Systems Design Engineering, Greece, GR;University of the Aegean - Department of Product and Systems Design Engineering, Greece, GR;University of the Aegean - Department of Product and Systems Design Engineering, Greece, GR;University of the Aegean - Department of Product and Systems Design Engineering, Greece, GR
Venue:
OCSC'07 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Online communities and social computing
Year:
2007

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Abstract

The aim of the paper is to identify and discuss major challenges for OSS from an HCI perspective, so as to aid the adoption and development processes for end-users, developers and organizations. The paper focuses on four important HCI concerns: product usability, support for user and development communities, accessibility and software usability and proposes areas for further research on the basis of related work and own experiences.