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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

Pondering the preliminary results of OSS usability research - Part 2

by Paula Bach on September 10, 2007

Developing software has been an engineering discipline with formal methods. The evolution of software methods has ranged from the now outdated waterfall method to formal specification languages with precise semantics. Despite having methodologies, software engineering continues to be difficult. Yet despite having what seems a lack of software engineering methodology, open source software development... more

• Monday, September 10, 2007
• in: Community
• Paula Bach

Pondering the preliminary results of OSS usability research, Part 1

by Paula Bach on August 01, 2007

In my last blog I talked about interdisciplinarity and multidisciplinarity and a little bit about my research this summer. In part 1 and 2 of this blog I am going to talk more about the research I have been doing here at Microsoft. Over the last few months I have been looking at a phenomenon called usability expertise. Anybody who has had difficulty using a product has some experience with usability... more

• Wednesday, August 01, 2007
• in: Community
• Paula Bach

Greetings from the Open Source Software Lab

by Paula Bach on June 12, 2007

Bryan has previously blogged about the project partnership between the Penn State University (PSU) College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) and the Open Source Software Lab (OSSL). I am at the OSSL here at Microsoft this summer and next as a research intern. The project, which started in May 2007 and will last two years, is my dissertation research. I work with Jack Carroll in the Center... more

• Tuesday, June 12, 2007
• in: Community
• Paula Bach