[HTML][HTML] Brain and autonomic nervous system activity measurement in software engineering: A systematic literature review

B Weber, T Fischer, R Riedl - Journal of Systems and Software, 2021 - Elsevier
In the past decade, brain and autonomic nervous system activity measurement received
increasing attention in the study of software engineering (SE). This paper presents a …

40 years of designing code comprehension experiments: A systematic mapping study

M Wyrich, J Bogner, S Wagner - ACM Computing Surveys, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The relevance of code comprehension in a developer's daily work was recognized more
than 40 years ago. Consequently, many experiments were conducted to find out how …

Quality evaluation of modern code reviews through intelligent biometric program comprehension

H Hijazi, J Duraes, R Couceiro… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Code review is an essential practice in software engineering to spot code defects in the
early stages of software development. Modern code reviews (eg, acceptance or rejection of …

Estimating developers' cognitive load at a fine-grained level using eye-tracking measures

A Abbad-Andaloussi, T Sorg, B Weber - Proceedings of the 30th IEEE …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
The comprehension of source code is a task inherent to many software development
activities. Code change, code review and debugging are examples of these activities that …

Can EEG be adopted as a neuroscience reference for assessing software programmers' cognitive load?

J Medeiros, R Couceiro, G Duarte, J Durães… - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
An emergent research area in software engineering and software reliability is the use of
wearable biosensors to monitor the cognitive state of software developers during software …

iReview: An intelligent code review evaluation tool using biofeedback

H Hijazi, J Cruz, J Castelhano… - 2021 IEEE 32nd …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Code reviews and software inspections are essential for building reliable software.
However, current code reviews practice in the software industry (eg, acceptance or rejection …

[HTML][HTML] On the relationship between source-code metrics and cognitive load: A systematic tertiary review

A Abbad-Andaloussi - Journal of Systems and Software, 2023 - Elsevier
The difficulty of software development tasks depends on several factors including the
characteristics of the underlying source-code. These characteristics can be captured and …

[PDF][PDF] Neurophysiological measurements in the research field of interruption science: insights into applied methods for different interruption types based on an …

FJ Stangl, R Riedl - Information Systems and Neuroscience …, 2023 - researchgate.net
Interruptions of various types, such as breaks, distractions, interventions, or intrusions, are
ubiquitous in our daily lives. Interruption science is an interdisciplinary research field …

Ensemble deep neural network for automatic classification of EEG independent components

F Lopes, A Leal, J Medeiros, MF Pinto… - … on Neural Systems …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objective: Independent component analysis (ICA) is commonly used to remove noisy
artifacts from multi-channel scalp electroencephalogram (EEG) signals. ICA decomposes …

EEG as a potential ground truth for the assessment of cognitive state in software development activities: A multimodal imaging study

J Medeiros, M Simões, J Castelhano, R Abreu… - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Cognitive human error and recent cognitive taxonomy on human error causes of software
defects support the intuitive idea that, for instance, mental overload, attention slips, and …