Kevin Lumbard, PhD
Assistant Professor
Contact
College of Arts and Sciences
Computer Science & Informatics
HCCA - Hitchcock Center for Communication Art
Kevin Lumbard, PhD
Assistant Professor
Kevin’s PhD is in Information Technology and Human Centered Computing. His work focuses on the sociotechnical aspects of design, which assumes both social and technical factors influence the design, functionality, and usage of technology. He is a former web developer and a certified project manager. Kevin’s research explores open source software development, corporate engagement with open source communities, and the health of open source communities. He uses engaged field work and trace data analysis to research open source software communities and the changing nature of technology work. Kevin’s work has been published in CSCW, CAIS, HICSS, IDETC, IEEE Computer, and SoHeal. Kevin is a charter member, maintainer, and board member of the Linux Foundation’s Community Health Analytics OSS Project (CHAOSS) https://chaoss.community/.
Department
Computer Science, Design and Journalism
Position
Assistant Professor
Publications
- First Monday
Goggins Sean, Germonprez Matt, Lumbard Kevin, Howison James, Ram Karthik, Du Caifan, Open source software field research: Spanning social and practice networks for re-entering the field
30:2 2025 - Information Systems Journal
Lumbard Kevin, Germonprez Matt, Goggins Sean, An empirical investigation of social comparison and open source community health
34:2 2024 - Linåker Johan, Link Georg, Lumbard Kevin, Sustaining Maintenance Labor for Healthy Open Source Software Projects through Human Infrastructure: A Maintainer Perspective 2024
- Goggins Sean, Lumbard Kevin, Germonprez Matt, Open source community health: Analytical metrics and their corresponding narratives 2021
- Computer
Goggins Sean P., Germonprez Matt, Lumbard Kevin, Making Open Source Project Health Transparent
54:8 2021 - Lumbard Kevin, Wethor Gabrielle, Goggins Sean, Buhman Anna, Hale Matthew, Germonprez Matt, Welcome? Investigating the reception of new contributors to organizational-communal open source software projects 2020
- Yi Sue, Lumbard Kevin, Damen Nicole B., Germonprez Matt, Toh Christine A., Towards an information archetypes framework: Exploring the types of information used in open source design engagements 2019
- Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
Germonprez Matt, Link Georg J.P., Lumbard Kevin, Goggins Sean, Eight observations and 24 research questions about open source projects: Illuminating new realities
2:CSCW 2018 - Lumbard Kevin, Abid Ammar, Toh Christine, Germonprez Matt, Knowing and designing: Understanding information use in open source design through the lens of information archetypes 2018
- Communications of the Association for Information Systems
Link Georg J. P., Lumbard Kevin, Conboy Kieran, Feldman Michael, Feller Joseph, George Jordana, Germonprez Matt, Goggins Sean, Jeske Debora, Kiely Gaye, Schuster Kristen, Willis Matt, Contemporary issues of open data in information systems research: Considerations and recommendations
41:1 2017