Usability in open source: Community
| dc.contributor.author | Çetin, Görkem | |
| dc.contributor.author | Göktürk, Mehmet | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-10-29T12:08:41Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2007 | |
| dc.department | Fakülteler, Mühendislik Fakültesi, Bilgisayar Mühendisliği Bölümü | |
| dc.description.abstract | The usability of desktop-based open source operating system, such as Linux is discussed. The Free/OpenSource software (F/OSS) community has started focusing on end users with the launch of the K Desktop Environment and GNOME projects. Interface design, visual communication, and information architecture are mandatory concepts for a winning desktop environment. Usability in a distributed and collaborative project is formed through five major items. These are a collaborative environment and a set of tools to strengthen the communication of the project stakeholder, a hierarchical and well-defined decision path that facilitates communication, a trust-based relationship model between developers, users and HCI experts, an initiator capable of making early design decision, and an HCI expert with a background in user-centered design. Institutionalized usability is gaining momentum in open source projects. Linux is dubbed as one of the most innovative Linux distributions focusing on usability. © 2011 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved. | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1145/1300655.1300679 | |
| dc.identifier.endpage | 40 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1072-5520 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1558-3449 | |
| dc.identifier.issue | 6 | |
| dc.identifier.scopus | 2-s2.0-36049050643 | |
| dc.identifier.scopusquality | Q3 | |
| dc.identifier.startpage | 38 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1145/1300655.1300679 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14854/14631 | |
| dc.identifier.volume | 14 | |
| dc.indekslendigikaynak | Scopus | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Interactions (N.Y.) | |
| dc.relation.publicationcategory | Makale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı | |
| dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess | |
| dc.snmz | KA_Scopus_20251020 | |
| dc.subject | Information architecture | |
| dc.subject | Linux distributions | |
| dc.subject | User-centered design | |
| dc.subject | Computer software | |
| dc.subject | Decision making | |
| dc.subject | Human computer interaction | |
| dc.subject | Interfaces (computer) | |
| dc.subject | Mathematical models | |
| dc.subject | Personal computers | |
| dc.subject | Project management | |
| dc.subject | Visual communication | |
| dc.subject | Usability engineering | |
| dc.title | Usability in open source: Community | |
| dc.type | Article |
