Publications

My recent publications analyse the opportunities of usability in F/OSS projects along experiences gained in the scope of OpenUsability, but they also describe usability findings and best practices. See my Blog for the latest online publications.

A selection of my publications:

2007	Reitmayr, Ellen: Einbeziehung von Usability-Experten in Open-Source-Community-Projekte: Erfahrungen aus dem OpenUsability-Projekt. Open Source Jahrbuch 2007, 289-298.
2006	Reitmayr, Ellen und Balazs, Björn: Integrating Usability with Open Source Software Development: Case Studies from the Initiative OpenUsability. Proceedings of the 2006 Workshop “towards Open Source Software adoption and dissemination (tOSSad)”, 6.2006, 65-72.
2003	Reitmayr, Ellen: Guiding Attention in a Software Tutorial: Using an Active Help System to Reduce the Split-Attention Effect. Unveröffentlichte Diplomarbeit. Universität Mannheim, Lehrstuhl Erziehungswissenschaften II.
2003	Reitmayr, Ellen, Vogt, Petra, Beu, Andreas, Mauch, Daniel und Röse, Kerstin: Branchenreport und Honorarspiegel 2003. Eine Befragung zur Situation der Usability-Professionals in Deutschland. www.gc-upa.de. [available online]
2003	Vogt, Petra, Röse, Kerstin Beu, Andreas und Reitmayr, Ellen: Branchenreport Usability: Berufsverband der deutschen Usability Professionals will die aufstrebende Branche durchleuchten. i-com, 02/2003, 45-46.

Apart from the above citations, the OpenUsability team had a series of articles in the German LinuxMagazin. Look at their archives for a selection of online articles related to my work.