2023 IEEE/ACM 45th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Society (ICSE-SEIS)最新文献

{"title":"Gender Representation Among Contributors to Open-Source Infrastructure : An Analysis of 20 Package Manager Ecosystems","authors":"Huilian Sophie Qiu, Zihe H Zhao, Tielin Katy Yu, Justin Wang, Alexander Ma, Hongbo Fang, Laura A. Dabbish, Bogdan Vasilescu","doi":"10.1109/ICSE-SEIS58686.2023.00025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE-SEIS58686.2023.00025","url":null,"abstract":"While the severe underrepresentation of women and non-binary people in open source is widely recognized, there is little empirical data on how the situation has changed over time and which subcommunities have been more effectively reducing the gender imbalance. To obtain a clearer image of gender representation in open source, we compiled and synthesized existing empirical data from the literature, and computed historical trends in the representation of women across 20 open source ecosystems. While inherently limited by the ability of automatic name-based gender inference to capture true gender identities at an individual level, our census still provides valuable population-level insights. Across all and in most ecosystems, we observed a promising upward trend in the percentage of women among code contributors over time, but also high variation in the percentage of women contributors across ecosystems. We also found that, in most ecosystems, women withdraw earlier from open-source participation than men.","PeriodicalId":427165,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE/ACM 45th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Society (ICSE-SEIS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130986058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Workplace Discrimination in Software Engineering: Where We Stand Today","authors":"Xin Zhao, Riley Young","doi":"10.1109/ICSE-SEIS58686.2023.00026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE-SEIS58686.2023.00026","url":null,"abstract":"Context: Discrimination within the workplace negatively impacts employees across the board and has been studied in various fields, such as wage-earning workplaces, healthcare, and social media. However, considerable work is still needed to gain a deeper understanding of workplace discrimination in Software Engineering. Objective: The research objective is to gain deeper insights into the causes, forms, and effects of workplace discrimination toward software professionals, thus providing insights to reduce workplace discrimination. Method: We applied an empirical investigation to reach our goal. We collected 97 complete responses from our online survey, including a set of open-ended, close-ended, and scale questions. Results: We found that most discriminatory actions happened more than one time, and most of the actions are carried out by colleagues in daily work, causing negative mental and physical effects. Conclusion: This paper provides an understanding of the causes, forms, and effects of workplace discrimination and discusses concrete suggestions to help reduce workplace discrimination in the software engineering field.General Abstract— Workplace discrimination has detrimental effects: it frustrates employees, diminishes morale, aggravates structural inequities in the labor market, and eventually hurts economic growth and dynamism. Although anti-discrimination laws have been legislated, calling for more fair and equitable working environments, workplace discrimination is a pervasive issue in today’s society. Although research communities have placed a strong emphasis on this issue, there are still considerable gaps in workplace discrimination research in software engineering. To fill this gap, we surveyed employees in software engineering with diverse demographic background about the causes, forms, and effects of their experiences with workplace discrimination. Our study reveals that age, gender, and race are contributing factors to experiencing or witnessing workplace discrimination in software engineering. We also found that many participants chose to \"let it go\" instead of engaging in effective communication with colleagues or Human Resources. Finally, respondents provided feedback on how companies can decrease discrimination and create a more positive work environment, describing several concrete actions employers can take to reduce discrimination and create a more healthy, equitable, and thriving workplace for every software professional.","PeriodicalId":427165,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE/ACM 45th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Society (ICSE-SEIS)","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134223374","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Values@Runtime: An Adaptive Framework for Operationalising Values","authors":"A. Bennaceur, Diane Hassett, B. Nuseibeh, A. Zisman","doi":"10.1109/ICSE-SEIS58686.2023.00024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE-SEIS58686.2023.00024","url":null,"abstract":"We present an adaptive framework to assist users in making more value-sensitive decisions during their (runtime) use of software. The framework enables users to (i) represent, instantiate, and monitor their values and behaviour; (ii) understand mismatches between stated values and their observed behaviour; and (iii) recommend ways to align users’ values and behaviour. We built a values shopping basket tool to illustrate and demonstrate the adaptive framework in the food consumption domain, a sector that is rich in values and regularly undergoes reflection and debate.","PeriodicalId":427165,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE/ACM 45th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Society (ICSE-SEIS)","volume":"784 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123899714","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Message from the Software Engineering in Society (SEIS) Chairs","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/icse-seis58686.2023.00005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/icse-seis58686.2023.00005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":427165,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE/ACM 45th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Society (ICSE-SEIS)","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127430091","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Along the Margins: Marginalized Communities’ Ethical Concerns about Social Platforms","authors":"L. Olson, Emitz'a Guzm'an, Florian Kunneman","doi":"10.1109/ICSE-SEIS58686.2023.00013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE-SEIS58686.2023.00013","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we identified marginalized communities’ ethical concerns about social platforms. We performed this identification because recent platform malfeasance indicates that software teams prioritize shareholder concerns over user concerns. Additionally, these platform shortcomings often have devastating effects on marginalized populations. We first scraped 586 marginalized communities’ subreddits, aggregated a dataset of their social platform mentions and manually annotated mentions of ethical concerns in these data. We subsequently analyzed trends in the manually annotated data and tested the extent to which ethical concerns can be automatically classified by means of natural language processing (NLP). We found that marginalized communities’ ethical concerns predominantly revolve around discrimination and misrepresentation, and reveal deficiencies in current software development practices. As such, researchers and developers could use our work to further investigate these concerns and rectify current software flaws.In this paper, we identified marginalized communities’ ethical concerns about social platforms. We did this because recent platform wrongdoing indicates that software teams prioritize profit over user concerns. Additionally, these platform shortcomings often have devastating effects on marginalized populations. To accomplish this, we collected Reddit posts from marginalized communities’ subreddits where users mention social media platforms. Then, we labeled whether posts contained mentions of ethical concerns, like privacy or misinformation. Finally, we established trends within the resulting data and used artificial intelligence (AI) to find these ethical concerns automatically. We discovered that marginalized communities’ ethical concerns revolve around discrimination and misrepresentation, among other problems, and reveal deficiencies in current social platforms. As such, researchers and software engineers could use our work to further investigate these concerns and rectify present software flaws.","PeriodicalId":427165,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE/ACM 45th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Society (ICSE-SEIS)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126627571","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Walking Down the Road to Independent Mobility: An Adaptive Route Training System for the Cognitively Impaired","authors":"Konstantin Rink, Tristan Gruschka, Patrick Palsbröker, Marcos Baez, Dominic Becking, Udo Seelmeyer, Gudrun Dobslaw, Patricia Stolz","doi":"10.1109/ICSE-SEIS58686.2023.00016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE-SEIS58686.2023.00016","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we describe the design and development of a route training system for individuals with cognitive impairments (CIs) living in residential care facilities. Learning to move autonomously in public spaces is a fundamental skill for people with CI, who face several challenges to independently and safely move around. Yet, exploring opportunities for route training support, especially in residential settings, has received very little attention. To explore these opportunities, we followed a design and development process based on inclusive design practices that considered the organisational context and aimed at involving people with CI in the software design. To ensure our solution addressed the identified needs and abilities of this heterogeneous population, we further framed the route training definition as a design process that is enacted by the system, making the trainer and user co-creators of a personalised training. In this paper we report on the needs and challenges for mobility training in residential settings, introduce the design and formative evaluation of the route training system, to conclude with reflections and considerations on our methodological approach.","PeriodicalId":427165,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE/ACM 45th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Society (ICSE-SEIS)","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121326315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Treat societally impactful scientific insights as open-source software artifacts","authors":"Cynthia C. S. Liem, Andrew M. Demetriou","doi":"10.1109/ICSE-SEIS58686.2023.00020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE-SEIS58686.2023.00020","url":null,"abstract":"So far, the relationship between open science and software engineering expertise has largely focused on the open release of software engineering research insights and reproducible artifacts, in the form of open-access papers, open data, and open-source tools and libraries. In this position paper, we draw attention to another perspective: scientific insight itself is a complex and collaborative artifact under continuous development and in need of continuous quality assurance, and as such, has many parallels to software artifacts. Considering current calls for more open, collaborative and reproducible science; increasing demands for public accountability on matters of scientific integrity and credibility; methodological challenges coming with transdisciplinary science; political and communication tensions when scientific insight on societally relevant topics is to be translated to policy; and struggles to incentivize and reward academics who truly want to move into these directions beyond traditional publishing habits and cultures, we make the parallels between the emerging open science requirements and concepts already well-known in (open-source) software engineering research more explicit. We argue that the societal impact of software engineering expertise can reach far beyond the software engineering research community, and call upon the community members to proactively help driving the necessary systems and cultural changes towards more open and accountable research.","PeriodicalId":427165,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE/ACM 45th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Society (ICSE-SEIS)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134461640","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Contradicting Motivations in Civic Tech Software Development: Analysis of a Grassroots Project","authors":"Antti Knutas, Dominik Siemon, Natasha Tylosky, G. Maccani","doi":"10.1109/ICSE-SEIS58686.2023.00021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE-SEIS58686.2023.00021","url":null,"abstract":"Grassroots civic tech, or software for social change, is an emerging practice where people create and then use software to create positive change in their community. In this interpretive case study, we apply Engeström’s expanded activity theory as a theoretical lens to analyze motivations, how they relate to for example group goals or development tool supported processes, and what contradictions emerge. Participants agreed on big picture motivations, such as learning new skills or improving the community. The main contradictions occurred inside activity systems on details of implementation or between system motives, instead of big picture motivations. Two most significant contradictions involved planning, and converging on design and technical approaches. These findings demonstrate the value of examining civic tech development processes as evolving activity systems.","PeriodicalId":427165,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE/ACM 45th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Society (ICSE-SEIS)","volume":"69 1-3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123469595","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Diversity Awareness in Software Engineering Participant Research","authors":"Riya Dutta, D. Costa, Emad Shihab, Tanja Tajmel","doi":"10.1109/ICSE-SEIS58686.2023.00017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE-SEIS58686.2023.00017","url":null,"abstract":"Diversity and inclusion are necessary prerequisites for shaping technological innovation that benefits society as a whole. A common indicator of diversity consideration is the representation of different social groups among software engineering (SE) researchers, developers, and students. However, this does not necessarily entail that diversity is considered in the SE research itself.In our study, we examine how diversity is embedded in SE research, particularly research that involves participant studies. To this end, we have selected 79 research papers containing 105 participant studies spanning three years of ICSE technical tracks. Using a content analytical approach, we identified how SE researchers report the various diversity categories of their study participants and investigated: 1) the extent to which participants are described, 2) what diversity categories are commonly reported, and 3) the function diversity serves in the SE studies.We identified 12 different diversity categories reported in SE participant studies. Our results demonstrate that even though most SE studies report on the diversity of participants, SE research often emphasizes professional diversity data, such as occupation and work experience, over social diversity data, such as gender or location of the participants. Furthermore, our results show that participant diversity is seldom analyzed or reflected upon when SE researchers discuss their study results, outcome or limitations.To help researchers self-assess their study diversity awareness, we propose a diversity awareness model and guidelines that SE researchers can apply to their research. With this study, we hope to shed light on a new approach to tackling the diversity and inclusion crisis in the SE field.","PeriodicalId":427165,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE/ACM 45th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Society (ICSE-SEIS)","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126652085","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Designing for Cognitive Diversity: Improving the GitHub Experience for Newcomers","authors":"Í. Santos, J. F. Pimentel, I. Wiese, Igor Steinmacher, A. Sarma, M. Gerosa","doi":"10.1109/ICSE-SEIS58686.2023.00007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE-SEIS58686.2023.00007","url":null,"abstract":"Social coding platforms such as GitHub have become defacto environments for collaborative programming and open source. When these platforms do not support specific cognitive styles, they create barriers to programming for some populations. Research shows that the cognitive styles typically favored by women are often unsupported, creating barriers to entry for woman newcomers. In this paper, we use the GenderMag method to evaluate GitHub to find cognitive style-specific inclusivity bugs. We redesigned the \"buggy\" GitHub features through a web browser plugin, which we evaluated through a between-subjects experiment (n=75). Our results indicate that the changes to the interface improve users' performance and self-efficacy, mainly for individuals with cognitive styles more common to women. Our results can inspire designers of social coding platforms and software engineering tools to produce more inclusive development environments.General Abstract—Diversity is an important aspect of society. One form of diversity is cognitive diversity—differences in cognitive styles, which helps generate a diversity of thoughts. Unfortunately, software tools often do not support different cognitive styles (e.g., learning styles), disproportionately impacting those whose styles are not supported. These individuals pay a cognitive \"tax\" each time they use the tools. In this work, we found \"inclusivity bugs\" in GitHub, a social coding platform. We then redesigned these buggy features and evaluated them with users. Our results show that the redesign makes it easier for the group of individuals whose cognitive styles were unsupported in the original design, with the percentage of completed tasks rising from 67% to 95% for this group.","PeriodicalId":427165,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE/ACM 45th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Society (ICSE-SEIS)","volume":"91 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129380634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}