Human aspects, gamification, and social media in collaborative software engineering

Vasilescu, Bogdan

doi:10.1145/2591062.2591091

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“…Bogdan noted the success of an OSS project depends to a large extent on the social aspects. He sought to increase understanding of how human aspects, gamification, and social media influence OSS [20]. Phillips et al considered the building of team effectiveness and found that many challenges are social, not technical.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Investigating and Projecting Population Structures in Open Source Software Projects: A Case Study of Projects in GitHub

Onoue

Hata

Monden

et al. 2016

IEICE Trans. Inf. & Syst.

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SUMMARYGitHub is a developers' social networking service that hosts a great number of open source software (OSS) projects. Although some of the hosted projects are growing and have many developers, most projects are organized by a few developers and face difficulties in terms of sustainability. OSS projects depend mainly on volunteer developers, and attracting and retaining these volunteers are major concerns of the project stakeholders. To investigate the population structures of OSS development communities in detail and conduct software analytics to obtain actionable information, we apply a demographic approach. Demography is the scientific study of population and seeks to identify the levels and trends in the size and components of a population. This paper presents a case study, investigating the characteristics of the population structures of OSS projects on GitHub, and shows population projections generated with the well-known cohort component method. We found that there are four types of population structures in OSS development communities in terms of experiences and contributions. In addition, we projected the future population accurately using a cohort component population projection method. This method predicts a population of the next period using a survival rate calculated from past population. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study that applied demography to the field of OSS research. Our approach addressing OSS-related problems based on demography will bring new insights, since studying population is novel in OSS research. Understanding current and future structures of OSS projects can help practitioners to monitor a project, gain awareness of what is happening, manage risks, and evaluate past decisions.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Investigating and Projecting Population Structures in Open Source Software Projects: A Case Study of Projects in GitHub

Onoue

Hata

Monden

et al. 2016

IEICE Trans. Inf. & Syst.

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“…Gamification in engineering education has not been fully adopted in schools, although the benefits of gamification have been shown in other fields (Pedreira et al, 2015, Dubois and Tamburrelli, 2013, Vasilescu, 2014, Hamari et al, 2014. Learning is best achieved through experiences -i.e., by using gamification to make tasks challenging and more engaging (Hamari et al, 2016, Ibáñez et al, 2014, Li et al, 2012, Barata et al, 2013b.…”

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confidence: 99%

Augmented and Virtual Reality for Engineering Education

Cibulka¹

2017

Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings

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Research on the application of augmented and virtual reality (AVR) in education shows that students selfmotivation and performance increases as well as their attractiveness to new ICT-enhanced classes. The aim of this article is to explore the use of AVR as an engaging learning tool for engineering education and to present a framework for an AVR-lab for engineering education. The AVR-lab will encourage teachers to adapt classroom practices for state-of-the-art lectures that integrate AVR educational technology. The graduates of AVR-enhanced curriculum will attain new competencies in AVR, which industry analysts anticipate are vital for the 21 st century labour market.

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“…Some research has indicated that gamification provides positive effects in motivation. Some studies are descriptive in nature and they have no actual listed experiment results of gamification reported [5], [6], [7], [8]. Several studies explore conceptual frameworks for classroom learning only [9].…”

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An Expert Gamification System for Virtual and Cross-Cultural Software Teams

Chow¹,

Huang

2017

Computer Science &Amp; Information Technology (CS &Amp; IT)

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Gamification is the concept of applying game elements in non-game context platforms to motivate people to participate in planned activities to achieve goals. Gamification has been applied to academic fields including software engineering (SE) in recent years. Many gamification implementations in SE have been ad hoc and lacked standardized guidelines. This paper introduces a new concept of building an expert gamification system (EGS) to provide guidelines for the implementation of gamification for virtual and cross cultural software teams (VCCST). The system will extend the core of a regular expert system to include gamification tools, a supplementary database, and an expert knowledge source. The cross-cultural data for the EGS contains the Hofstede's cultural dimensions (HCD).As more and more VCCST are formed in recent years, many issues have been raised in those teams stemming from miscommunication and cultural conflicts. This paper uses the EGS to help resolve the issues in VCCST.

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Human aspects, gamification, and social media in collaborative software engineering

Cited by 28 publications

References 35 publications

Investigating and Projecting Population Structures in Open Source Software Projects: A Case Study of Projects in GitHub

Investigating and Projecting Population Structures in Open Source Software Projects: A Case Study of Projects in GitHub

Augmented and Virtual Reality for Engineering Education

An Expert Gamification System for Virtual and Cross-Cultural Software Teams

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