Free and open source software (FOSS) movement essentially arises like answer to the
evolution occurred in the market from the software, characterized by the closing of the …

The assurance of both usability and accessibility is an important concern in software
development today. However, while a great deal of attention has been paid from the …

Usability maturation manifests in terms of quality in software, in interaction, and in value,
constituting the three parts of this volume. In this green paper, the three editors present a …

Designing usable products is important to provide a competitive edge through user
satisfaction. A first step to establish or improve a usability process is to perform a process …

This paper addresses the possibility of measuring perceived usability in an absolute way. It
studies the impact of the nature of the tasks performed in perceived software usability …

The increasingly widespread use of open source software (OSS) is an indication of its
success. However, as a software development model OSS still has shortcomings that need …

Background: To be effective, User eXperience (UX) principles and practices need to be
integrated into development processes and organizations, what we refer to as UX …

Several emerging countries experience increasing software development activities. With the
purpose of provide useful feedback on possible courses of action for increasing application …

This article presents an experience report where we compare 8 years of experience of
product related usability testing and evaluation with principles for software process …

User satisfaction has always been important for software success whether it is Open Source
Software (OSS) or closed proprietary software. Even though we do not presume that OSS …