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Sensing developers' emotions: the design of a replicated experiment

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Daniela Girardi,

Filippo Lanubile,

Nicole Novielli,

Davide FucciAuthors Info & Claims

SEmotion '18: Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Emotion Awareness in Software Engineering

Pages 51 - 54

https://doi.org/10.1145/3194932.3194940

Published: 02 June 2018 Publication History

Abstract

Software developers experience a wide variety of emotions during their work and research is now focusing on the role played by these emotions on software developers productivity as well as on their wellbeing. In this paper, we propose a replication of a study aimed investigating to what extent biometric sensors can be used to automatically detect developers' emotions during programming tasks. The long-term goal of our research is to discover which emotions affect developers' productivity and wellbeing during their work. Specifically, we aim at defining approaches for early detection of negative affective states that are known to impair mental wellbeing and productivity.¹

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Index Terms

Sensing developers' emotions: the design of a replicated experiment
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Collaborative and social computing
    1. Collaborative and social computing theory, concepts and paradigms
      1. Computer supported cooperative work
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Collaboration in software development
      1. Programming teams

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SEmotion '18: Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Emotion Awareness in Software Engineering

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ISBN:9781450357517

DOI:10.1145/3194932

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Microsoft Research
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Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
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Daniel Graziotin
University of Stuttgart, Germany

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