The Focus Group Method as an Empirical Tool in Software Engineering

Kontio, Jyrki; Bragge, Johanna; Lehtola, Laura

doi:10.1007/978-1-84800-044-5_4

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“…2. Affinity group interviews: Focus group interviews have been successfully applied in software engineering research (Kontio et al 2008). The affinity group interview is a type of group interview in which the interviewed group comprises of people who know each other, either by formal or informal acquaintance (Hennink 2007).…”

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Older adults and hackathons: a qualitative study

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Globally observed trends in aging indicate that older adults constitute a growing share of the population and an increasing demographic in the modern technologies marketplace. Therefore, it has become important to address the issue of participation of older adults in the process of developing solutions suitable for their group. In this study, we approached this topic by organizing a hackathon involving teams of young programmers and older adults participants. Below we describe a case study of that hackathon, in which our objective was to motivate older adults to participate in software engineering processes. Based on our results from an array of qualitative methods, we propose a set of good practices that may lead to improved older adult participation in similar events and an improved process of developing apps that target older adults.

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“…The research presented in this study is conducted as focus group meeting [14], [8] and it represents a second phase of the two-phase study as depicted in Figure 1, which depicts the entire research process. The participants of the focus group meeting were the same individuals that were involved in the execution of the first phase of the study and thus were well acquainted with purpose and details of the study.…”

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A Two Phase Case Study on Implementation of Open Source Development Practices within a Company Setting

Orucevic-Alagic¹,

Höst²

2016

International Conferences on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

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Implementation of open source development practices within commercial settings can bring benefits such as improved source code quality, lower maintenance costs, and increased innovation. However, a widespread in-house implementation of the practices has not been observed. The goal of this research is to understand factors which hinder the implementation. For the purpose, development practices of a large, global software and hardware organization that bases its products on open source software, and has over a decade long experience of contributing to various open source projects were studied. The results were validated through a set of structured interviews and a focus group meeting. It is found that the initial implementation of the process has not been carried out in a planned and systematic way within the company. The results of the follow-up focus group meeting show that while the company's practices acquired a higher degree of alignment over a two-year period, the change was necessitated by a need to have a more efficient development effort across new, globally distributed, development sites.

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“…ii) La selección de los participantes. iii) La conducción de la sesión, y iv) El análisis de la información y reporte (Kontio et al, 2008). En la preparación de sesión se generaron los materiales que fueron entregados previamente a la sesión.…”

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Model of Semantic interoperability between Learning Management Systems

2015

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Actualmente existen gran variedad de Sistemas de Gestión de Aprendizaje - Learning Management System (LMS) al servicio de todos los niveles educativos y las áreas académicas. Esta diversidad origina un problema de semántica en el conocimiento haciéndolo disperso e inexacto debido a que cada LMS maneja sus propios formatos, arquitecturas y especificaciones. Esto dificulta la interoperabilidad de la información entre diferentes plataformas afectando principalmente a los estudiantes. En el artículo se describe la propuesta de un modelo de interoperabilidad semántica para resolver las necesidades de intercambio de información caracterizadas de los LMS, a partir de las propuestas existentes de solución en el campo de las especificaciones de e-learning, los servicios Web y las ontologías en general.

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The Focus Group Method as an Empirical Tool in Software Engineering

Cited by 119 publications

References 52 publications

Older adults and hackathons: a qualitative study

Older adults and hackathons: a qualitative study

A Two Phase Case Study on Implementation of Open Source Development Practices within a Company Setting

Model of Semantic interoperability between Learning Management Systems

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