An experimental replication on the effect of the practice of mindfulness in conceptual modeling performance

Bernárdez, Beatriz; Durán, Amador; Parejo, José Antonio; Ruiz–Cortés, Antonio

doi:10.1016/j.jss.2016.06.104

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“…In our case, after having to report two internal replications [26], [135] of a baseline experiment [27] and finding some problems applying Carver's guidelines [3]-especially about reporting changes between replications-we decided to carry out an SMS on replications in SE as a first step before performing an SLR. In order to know the trends and emerging topics, and also to identify research niches that facilitate and foster replications, we have reviewed studies that report at least one replication in SE in recent years.…”

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Replication of Studies in Empirical Software Engineering: A Systematic Mapping Study, From 2013 to 2018

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In any discipline, replications of empirical studies are necessary to consolidate the acquired knowledge. In Software Engineering, replications have been reported since the 1990s, although their number is still small. The difficulty in publishing, the lack of guidelines, and the unavailability of replication packages are pointed out by the community as some of the main causes. Objective: Understanding the current state of replications in Software Engineering studies by evaluating current trends and evolution during the last 6 years. Method: A Systematic Mapping Study including articles published in the 2013-2018 period that report at least one replication of an empirical study in Software Engineering. Results: 137 studies were selected and analysed, identifying: i) forums; ii) authors, co-authorships and institutions; iii) most cited studies; iv) research topics addressed; v) empirical methods used; vi) temporal distribution of publications; and vii) distribution of studies according to research topics and empirical methods. Conclusions: According to our results, the most relevant forums are the Empirical Software Engineering and Information and Software Technology journals, and the Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement conference. We observed that, as in previous reviews by other researchers, most of the studies were carried out by European institutions, especially Italian, Spanish, and German researchers and institutions. The studies attracting more citations were published mainly in journals and in the International Conference on Software Engineering. Testing, requirements, and software construction were the most frequent topics of replication studies, whereas the usual empirical method was the controlled experiment. On the other hand, we identified research gaps in areas such as software engineering process, software configuration management, and software engineering economics. When analysed together with previous reviews, there is a clear increasing trend in the number of published replications in the 2013-2018 period. INDEX TERMS Empirical software engineering, replications, systematic mapping study.

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“…Several research studies followed, mostly focusing on the organisational or collective level (Aanestad & Jensen, 2016 ; Amaye et al, 2016 ; Butler & Gray, 2006 ; Carlo et al, 2012 ; Teo et al, 2011 ). It is only recently that studies have emerged focusing on the individual level of mindfulness (Bernárdez et al, 2018 ; Jensen et al, 2017 ; Maier et al, 2017 ; Sun et al, 2016 ; Zou et al, 2015 ). Individual-level studies extend the notion in the IT systems use context, investigating the influences of mindfulness on technology adoption decisions (Sun, 2011 ; Sun et al, 2016 ) as well as on the use of e-government systems (Hadidi & Carter, 2016 ).…”

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The Role of Mindfulness in Mitigating the Negative Consequences of Technostress

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IT offers significant benefits both to individuals and organisations, such as during the Covid-19 pandemic where technology played a primary role in aiding remote working environments; however, IT use comes with consequences such as ‘technostress’ – stress arising from extended use of technology. Addressing the paucity of research related to this topic, in this study, we examine the role of mindfulness and IT mindfulness to both mitigate the impact of technostress and alleviate its negative consequences; revealing that mindfulness can reduce technostress and increase job satisfaction, while IT mindfulness can enhance user satisfaction and improve task performance. Moreover, our work sheds light on the under-researched relationship between mindfulness and IT mindfulness; showing that the latter has a stronger influence on IT related outcomes; revealing the valuable role of mindfulness and IT mindfulness in the workplace and offering important implications to theory and practice.

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“…Bernardez et al [5,6] performed experiments showing that the practice of mindfulness significantly improves conceptual modeling efficiency. Regarding conceptual modeling effectiveness, an improvement was observed in practice, even though the analysis showed that the improvement was not statistically significant.…”

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“…Given that they only take 5 minutes each, it is reasonable to offer them optionally at the end of the break in the middle of a longer class session, or at the beginning of a remote online session. 6 5.2.2 Workplace interventions. Building on the experience with yoga classes taught at the department, the insights from the in-class interventions can be expanded on the level of weekly workplace interventions.…”

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“…Part of the physical presence part is to establish a space ("relax room") to do these exercises and whether that is possible or supported by the stakeholders. Several large IT companies have made large investments in such spaces for 5 Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS) as baseline survey and exit survey https://ggsc.berkeley.edu/images/uploads/The_Mindful_Attention_Awareness_ Scale_-_Trait_(1).pdf 6 Several colleagues are interested to replicate this in their classes for a larger data set. 7 Breathing exercise videos by PI: https://youtu.be/VWbGYe_eUdM, https://youtu.be/ L3IDybJAiWQ Figure 1: Overview of the proposed research.…”

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Where attention goes, energy flows

Penzenstadler

2020

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on ICT for Sustainability

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Software engineers are plagued by the same troubles as many others in highly skilled jobs and digitized environments: Ever-expanding to-do lists, time to market pressure from management, deadlinedriven development, continuous interruption during working tasks, and the juggle of balancing that with other areas of life (physical, mental and emotional health, family, household, finance, friends, hobbies and community service). These demands of life in combination with a seemingly ever-increasing pace wear or burn out many people in the long run. Specifically, as software engineers, this also leads to decreased creativity and less efficiency in problem-solving. Generally offered solutions are reducing screen time and spending more time outdoors, both of which are hard to do within the work of a software engineer. On a meta level, if the developers of the systems that run most of our world do not develop individual sustainability with a balanced pace of life, that imbalance propagates into the systems we develop (similar to Conway's Law). We argue that mindfulness practices like yoga poses (asanas), breathing practices, and meditation exercises can help individually, and even more effectively in combination. In this exploratory paper, we discuss related work that explores the application of these mitigations in other application domains and propose a research agenda to explore their use within software engineering education and practice. Engaging with mindfulness practices in the context of software engineering promises to enhance creativity and cognitive problemsolving skills, leading to more efficiency and effectiveness during software development and increased individual sustainability. This, in turn, leads to better team spirit as well as increased economic profit, both in terms of maintaining human capital and customer contract deliverables.

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An experimental replication on the effect of the practice of mindfulness in conceptual modeling performance

Cited by 18 publications

References 50 publications

Replication of Studies in Empirical Software Engineering: A Systematic Mapping Study, From 2013 to 2018

Replication of Studies in Empirical Software Engineering: A Systematic Mapping Study, From 2013 to 2018

The Role of Mindfulness in Mitigating the Negative Consequences of Technostress

Where attention goes, energy flows

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