Jobs and Open Source Usability [09 Apr 2004|12:47pm] [ mood | awake ] [ music | Simon and Garfunkel - Mrs. Robinson ] A brief discussion concerning usability in open source. Despite views to the contrary, open source can be seen as a great testing ground for usability work. Open Source Usability. It appears that a bit of focus has been made on Linux Usability lately with articles by Eric Raymond here and a follow up here, and a reply by John Gruber here with comments on OS News here. ( Read more... ) 3 comments|post comment

Tired [09 Apr 2004|01:41pm] [ mood | tired, but happy ] Worked until gone 6.00am last night trying to suss out the model fitting for the thesis, and I think (at last!) that I have a solution that steps around a) the various models, and b) the statistical issues (regression to the mean of the scale). I'll check with Steve to see if it's okay, and although it only uses a fraction of the data we have, it does seem to offer something of interest. ( Read more... ) post comment

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