Going overseas

I'm a young researcher and I can admit that I'm already doing a good job. I've been publishing within the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) community since my under-graduate degree in Brazil. And now, as a PhD researcher in Belgium, I'm collaborating with yet other communities, such as Organization Engineering and Business Process Management that have been learning about the benefits of HCI.

But what makes my research valuable is to see it out there. What a small world! A friend of mine has just returned from a study period at the University of Texas and during one of her researches at the library, she found one of my articles there. This article was published at Tamodia 2007, which I mentioned in a previous post.

That work talks about a strategy to define user interface development methods tailored to the reality of software development organizations and their projects. Its main differential is the use of usability goals to drive the customization of such methods and thus adding a new perspective to software projects. As everything in life, if you don't know what you want beforehand, you will not get it. So, you need goals and usability goals give you what you need in terms of software usability.

It has been so long since Tamodia happened and then the book of this conference is available in the library of a foreign university. I know that this is a small thing, isn't it? But as a PhD researcher, this is very important for me. It means that my work has gone overseas and it is helping people with their researches, faraway.