Towards Emotion-Based Collaborative Software Engineering

Abstract

There is a symbiotic relationship between collaborative software engineering and the recent research in detection of four kinds of task-based emotions: interruptibility, difficulty perception, frustration, and attention. Predictions of these emotions can trigger opportunistic collaborations, make collaborations more purposeful, influence how activities are scheduled, and give implicit feedback from collaborators. Conversely, concepts from software engineering can further advance the nascent area of emotion detection by creating reusable analysis, annotation and prediction tools and architectures that make the notion of multi-iteration application- and emotion-independent prediction tractable.