Participatory usability: supporting proactive users

  • Authors:
  • David M. Nichols;Dana McKay;Michael B. Twidale

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand;University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand;University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL

  • Venue:
  • CHINZ '03 Proceedings of the 4th Annual Conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

After software has been released the opportunities for users to influence development can often be limited. In this paper we review the research on post-deployment usability and make explicit its connections to open source software development. We describe issues involved in the design of end-user reporting tools with reference to the Safari web browser and a digital library prototype.