Paula is a fourth-year PhD Student in the College of Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State University. Her research interest is open source software development and HCI. Currently, at Penn State, she works in both the Computer-Supported Collaboration and Learning Lab. She is also working with the Open Source Software Lab and Microsoft Research in the Human Interactions in Programming group to understand the integration of usability in open source software engineering. Her research will provide a framework for designing a tool in Codeplex that helps support usability activities. She holds a BA in English and Psychology from UBC and a MSc in Rhetoric and Technical Communication from Michigan Technological University. At Penn State she works with a multidisciplinary team of professors with expertise in HCI, software engineering, sociology, and instructional systems.