Kashumi Madampe, John Grundy, Minh Nguyen, Ellen Welstead-Cloud, Vinh Tuan Huynh, Linh Doan, William Lay, Sayed Hashim
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Abstract
There has been great interest in better understanding software engineer emotions during development. But how to do this? We built a prototype AI-powered Emotion-centric Developer Insights Platform, EmoReflex, to support developers to report and reflect how they feel when working on various tasks across different metrics. It also assists their managers to get insights into their team’s emotional health, and provides them with recommendations to guide them handle the team’s emotional wellbeing. We present our tool prototype and evaluation results generated by a user study conducted with two user groups consisting of twenty developers and twenty managers. We present some design implications derived from our user study that can be used to inform design decisions in emotion-centric software development tools.
期刊介绍:
This journal details research, tutorial papers, survey and accounts of significant industrial experience in the foundations, techniques, tools and applications of automated software engineering technology. This includes the study of techniques for constructing, understanding, adapting, and modeling software artifacts and processes.
Coverage in Automated Software Engineering examines both automatic systems and collaborative systems as well as computational models of human software engineering activities. In addition, it presents knowledge representations and artificial intelligence techniques applicable to automated software engineering, and formal techniques that support or provide theoretical foundations. The journal also includes reviews of books, software, conferences and workshops.