Entity:UAM. Departamento de Ingeniería Informática
Publisher:Association for Computing Machinery
Date:2016-09-13
Citation:
10.1145/2998626.2998653
17th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction, Interaccion 2016. ACM. 13 September 2016
ISBN:978-145034119-6
DOI:10.1145/2998626.2998653
Funded by:This research has been partly funded by several organizations, including the Government of Ecuador’s Secretariat of Higher Education, Science, Technology and Innovation (SENESCYT) through a scholarship and the State Technical University of Quevedo through doctoral training scholarships for university professors. Also this research was funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports FLEXOR and “Realizando Experimentos en la Industria del Software: Comprensión del Paso de Laboratorio a la Realidad” projects (TIN2014-52129-R and TIN2014-60490-P, respectively) and the eMadrid-CM “Investi-gación y Desarrollo de Tecnologías Educativas en la Comunidad de Madrid” project (S2013/ICE-2715)
Project:Gobierno de España. TIN2014-52129-R; Gobierno de España. TIN2014-60490-P; Comunidad de Madrid. S2013/ICE-2715/EMADRID
The growth in the number of non-developer open source software (OSS) application users and the escalating use of these applications have led to the need and interest in developing usable OSS. OSS communities do not generally know how to apply usability techniques and are unclear about which techniques to use in each activity of the development process. The aim of our research is to adopt the Personas usability technique in the PSeInt OSS project and determine the feasibility of adapting the technique for application. To do this, we participated as volunteers in the project. We used the case study research method during technique application and participation in the community. As a result, we identified adverse conditions that were an obstacle to technique application and modified the technique to make it applicable. We can conclude from our experience that these changes were helpful for applying the technique, although it was not easy to recruit OSS users to participate in usability technique application