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CodePlex project developers wanted

by Paula Bach on June 30, 2008

I would like to invite CodePlex developers to participate in research. If you have been reading my blog posts here on Port25, then you will know that I have been investigating how to integrate usability into open source software development. Now I am... more

• Monday, June 30, 2008
• in: Community
• Paula Bach

Go Hybrid

by Paula Bach on June 09, 2008

I am back in Redmond. For those of you who don’t know, I spent last summer here in the open source software lab conducting research on integrating usability into open source. My last blog talked about how I have made some changes to my research program... more

• Monday, June 09, 2008
• in: Community
• Paula Bach

Passing Without Talking

by Paula Bach on February 05, 2008

My last blog was about me traveling to Limerick and Toronto. I have now defended my dissertation proposal and passed. (Yay!) Here is a funny story. A week before the proposal defense I created my presentation and rehearsed it every day until the third day before when I began to get a sore throat. I don’t think it was from rehearsing the presentation or nerves or anything like that. Instead it was just... more

• Tuesday, February 05, 2008
• in: Community
• Paula Bach

10th European Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW) Conference - Limerick, Ireland

by Paula Bach on November 07, 2007

I’ve been on the road..In September, I went to Limerick, Ireland for the 10th European Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW) conference. Computer-supported cooperative work is a sub-sub-discipline of computerscience and a sub-discipline of Human Computer Interaction (HCI). CSCW researchers look at groupware, how people collaborate, and tools that support collaboration... ... more

• Wednesday, November 07, 2007
• Paula Bach