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Happy software developers solve problems better: psychological measurements in empirical software engineering
2014
PeerJ
introducing and validating psychological measurements, theories, and concepts of affective states, creativity, and analytical-problem-solving skills in empirical software engineering, and (3) raising ...
This article echoes the call to employ psychological measurements in software engineering research. ...
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The authors would like to thank the students who participated in the experiment. ...
doi:10.7717/peerj.289
pmid:24688866
pmcid:PMC3961150
fatcat:t3ysiz3h3rhwlmzpqpnoymtk4m
Better science through art
2010
Proceedings of the ACM international conference on Object oriented programming systems languages and applications - OOPSLA '10
was a psychological question. ...
The problem is that the needs of creative design, which seeks valid constructs-constructs that actually solve the right problems-conflict with demands for reliable performance which is obtained by processes ...
doi:10.1145/1869459.1869533
dblp:conf/oopsla/GabrielS10
fatcat:a6ok4l3gyvf27dxy6bbj77hiem
Better science through art
2010
SIGPLAN notices
was a psychological question. ...
The problem is that the needs of creative design, which seeks valid constructs-constructs that actually solve the right problems-conflict with demands for reliable performance which is obtained by processes ...
doi:10.1145/1932682.1869533
fatcat:kmho6pkijfhylazrdabt54rqo4
Design to Assist Better Youthhood for Adolescents with Lower-Limb Disability through Virtual Reality Sports
2022
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Recently, VR technology has proven its profound value in the psychological evaluation and treatment, rehabilitation, and immersive training of people in need. ...
We have proposed, designed, and developed a VR rock-climbing game for youths with lower-limb dysfunction that allows them to engage in enjoyable and purposeful in-game tasks that simultaneously bring about ...
effort in terms of problem-solving and pathfinding to overcome the difficulties encountered in VR rock-climbing. ...
doi:10.3390/ijerph19073985
pmid:35409674
pmcid:PMC8997947
fatcat:ultjoera2rbpfgfhb2k7trfabe
Does Reviewing Lead to Better Learning and Decision Making? Answers from a Randomized Stock Market Experiment
2012
PLoS ONE
Objectives: The purpose of the study is to investigate whether the writing of PR feedback causes students to benefit in terms of: perceived utility about statistics, actual use of statistics, better understanding ...
statistical results from peers, Collaborative PR, and an AI-enhanced Stock Market Engine. ...
The SMG was used to obtain objective measurements of student's ability to apply newly acquired statistical knowledge to solve new and challenging problems. ...
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0037719
pmid:22666385
pmcid:PMC3364279
fatcat:jrrq576e25fq7o3e3n574mj2be
Software Developers, Moods, Emotions, and Performance
2014
IEEE Software
Studies show that software developers' happiness pays off when it comes to productivity. ...
The study provided empirical support for the claim that happy developers are indeed better problem solvers in terms of their analytical abilities. ...
Several comments show the practitioners understood why human aspects should have a major role in software engineering studies: "[Happiness] has a bigger effect on software developers' productivity that ...
doi:10.1109/ms.2014.94
fatcat:qk3mnagoqjabpoafrxpnjux5pe
Towards a Theory of Affect and Software Developers' Performance
[article]
2016
arXiv
pre-print
Overall, the evidence hints that happy software developers perform better in analytic problem solving, are more productive while developing software, are prone to share their feelings in order to let researchers ...
The underlying assumption seems to be that "happy and satisfied software developers perform better". ...
Happy software developers solve problems better: psychological measurements in empirical software engineering. PeerJ, 2(1):e289 (2014b). doi: 10.7717/peerj.289. ...
arXiv:1601.05330v2
fatcat:zxbyewmndrbtxprrj4sudftqxe
Soft sides of software
2017
Information and Software Technology
further attention from researchers in behavioral psychology, management science, and empirical software engineering. ...
, and possibly lack of trust in empirical studies on human factors in software engineering. ...
doi:10.1016/j.infsof.2017.07.011
fatcat:aqkkjapq35g3xcirpwkvgu4guq
You better play 7: mutual versus common knowledge of advice in a weak-link experiment
2012
Synthese
Our experimental subjects play in pairs for thirteen rounds. ...
In the mutual knowledge of level 2 treatment, the same suggestion appears on each subject's monitor, accompanied by the request to "send" the suggestion to the partner in the round, followed by a notification ...
We thank Daniela Di Cagno, Marco Tecilla, Mariagrazia Palmieri and Dearna Sulonjaku for their help in developing the experimental software and in implementing and conducting the experiments. ...
doi:10.1007/s11229-012-0177-9
fatcat:ux6ve6joqnbppkrt7kd2eg5xt4
Measuring Affectiveness and Effectiveness in Software Systems
[article]
2017
arXiv
pre-print
The summary presented in this paper highlights the results obtained in a four-years project aiming at analyzing the development process of software artifacts from two points of view: Effectiveness and ...
Affectivenes is obtained by measuring Sentiment, Politeness and Emotions. All the study presented in this summary are based on Jira, one of the most used software repositories. ...
, theories, and concepts of affective states, creativity, and analytical-problem-solving skills in empirical software engineering, and raised the need for studying the human factors of software engineering ...
arXiv:1703.01642v1
fatcat:cpi4hrx3mfglxoaf6w4rwsrc34
You Better Play 7: Mutual versus Common Knowledge of Advice in a Weak-Link Experiment
2012
Social Science Research Network
Our experimental subjects play in pairs for thirteen rounds. ...
In the mutual knowledge of level 2 treatment, the same suggestion appears on each subject's monitor, accompanied by the request to "send" the suggestion to the partner in the round, followed by a notification ...
We thank Daniela Di Cagno, Marco Tecilla, Mariagrazia Palmieri and Dearna Sulonjaku for their help in developing the experimental software and in implementing and conducting the experiments. ...
doi:10.2139/ssrn.1986203
fatcat:gnndlnmzgrf2lljsd7nlzj6i7i
What happens when software developers are (un)happy
2018
Journal of Systems and Software
In this paper, we study what happens when developers are happy and unhappy while developing software. ...
Our comprehension of the consequences of (un)happiness among developers is still too shallow, being mainly expressed in terms of development productivity and software quality. ...
Acknowledgements The authors would like to thank all those who participated in this study. Daniel Graziotin has been supported by the Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Foundation. ...
doi:10.1016/j.jss.2018.02.041
fatcat:ttmd7qlnarb2xomcdy7gw7fjcm
On the Unhappiness of Software Developers
2017
Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering - EASE'17
We suggest considering happiness in future studies of both human and technical aspects in software engineering. ...
Recent research in software engineering supports the thesis, and the ideal of flourishing happiness among software developers is often expressed among industry practitioners. ...
ACKNOWLEDGMENT The authors would like to thank all those who participated in this study. Daniel Graziotin has been supported by the Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Foundation. ...
doi:10.1145/3084226.3084242
dblp:conf/ease/GraziotinFWA17
fatcat:cponue3nfffbbpooe2upd2fywi
A theory on individual characteristics of successful coding challenge solvers
2019
PeerJ Computer Science
Methods We conducted an exploratory quantitative study with 32 software engineering students to develop an empirical theory on which individual characteristics predict the performance in solving coding ...
Furthermore, conscientious as well as sad software engineers performed worse in our study. We make the theory available in this paper for empirical testing. ...
The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. ...
doi:10.7717/peerj-cs.173
pmid:33816826
pmcid:PMC7924443
fatcat:4lwqbbirzzeghb2to2pliq7blm
Empirical software research
2013
ACM Ubiquity
His major interests are software engineering and parallel computing. You can read more about him at www.ipd.uka.de/Tichy. ...
the Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM) conference. ...
The purpose of computing is eventually about solving practical problems. Developing software technology without applying it doesn't make sense. ...
doi:10.1145/2555235.2555239
fatcat:ddpurfalsjcu3h3xd6eqkfy7ga
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