Major HCI Challenges for Open Source Software Adoption and Development

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.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: HCI
• Authors: Nikos Viorres, Papadopoulos Xenofon, Modestos Stavrakis, Evangelos Vlachogiannis, Panayiotis Koutsabasis, John Darzentas
• Keywords: HCI 2007, HCI Perspective, Human Computer Interaction, Important Hci Concerns, Major Challenges