A Human-Centered Approach to Developer Productivity

Organizational Volatility and Developer Productivity

The key premise of an organization is to allow more efficient production, including production of software. To achieve that, an organization defines roles and reporting relationships. Therefore, changes in organization’s structure are likely to affect organization’s productivity. We investigate several measures of organization and organizational change and relate them to developer productivity....

A Human-Centered Design Approach

Developer-Centered Collaborative Software Development Environments

Looking at software development as a collective knowledge activity has changed the view of the role of communication in software development from something to be eliminated to something to be nurtured. Developer-centered collaborative software development environments (CSDEs) should facilitate software development in such a way, as individual software developers collaboratively develop informat...

A Human-Centered Approach to One-Shot Gesture Learning

This article discusses the problem of one-shot gesture recognition using a humancentered approach and its potential application to fields such as human–robot interaction where the user’s intentions are indicated through spontaneous gesturing (one shot). Casual users have limited time to learn the gestures interface, which makes one-shot recognition an attractive alternative to interface customi...

A task centered approach to analysing human error tolerance requirements

In this paper we put forward an approach to deriving and applying human error tolerance requirements. Such requirements are concerned with the response of a system to errors introduced by human operators. The approach provides a means by which operators’ tasks can be described and analysed for likely errors and the impact of these errors on system safety can be explored. The approach, based on ...