[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 …

Considerations and pitfalls for reducing threats to the validity of controlled experiments on code comprehension

DG Feitelson - Empirical Software Engineering, 2022 - Springer
Understanding program code is a complicated endeavor. As a result, studying code
comprehension is also hard. The prevailing approach for such studies is to use controlled …

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 …

Neurophysiological measurements in the research field of interruption science: Insights into applied methods for different interruption types based on an umbrella …

FJ Stangl, R Riedl - NeuroIS Retreat, 2023 - Springer
Interruptions of various types, such as breaks, distractions, interventions, or intrusions, are
ubiquitous in our daily lives. Interruption science is an interdisciplinary research field …

Capturing cognitive load management during authentic virtual reality flight training with behavioural and physiological indicators

J Lämsä, J Mannonen, A Tuhkala… - Journal of computer …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background Cognitive load (CL) management is essential in safety‐critical fields so that
professionals can monitor and control their cognitive resources efficiently to perform and …

Pupillography as indicator of programmers' mental effort and cognitive overload

R Couceiro, G Duarte, J Durães… - 2019 49th Annual …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Our research explores a recent paradigm called Biofeedback Augmented Software
Engineering (BASE) that introduces a strong new element in the software development …

Role of the EEG theta network during software production: a connectivity study

A Calcagno, S Coelli, C Amendola… - … on Neural Systems …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software programming is an acquired evolutionary skill originating from consolidated
cognitive functions (ie, attentive, logical, coordination, mathematic calculation, and language …

On the accuracy of code complexity metrics: A neuroscience-based guideline for improvement

G Hao, H Hijazi, J Durães, J Medeiros… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Complexity is the key element of software quality. This article investigates the problem of
measuring code complexity and discusses the results of a controlled experiment to compare …