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 …

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 …

Background: Despite similar education and background, programmers can exhibit vast
differences in efficacy. While research has identified some potential factors, such as …

Interruptions of various types, such as breaks, distractions, interventions, or intrusions, are
ubiquitous in our daily lives. Interruption science is an interdisciplinary research field …

Preprocessing electroencephalographic (EEG) signals during computer-mediated Cognitive
Load tasks is crucial in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). This process significantly …

The difficulty of software development tasks depends on several factors including the
characteristics of the underlying source-code. These characteristics can be captured and …

Human status detection (HSD) is important to understand the status of users when
interacting with various systems under different conditions. Recently, although various …

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 …

Assessing cognitive load using pupillography frequency features presents a persistent
challenge due to the lack of consensus on optimal frequency limits. This study aims to …

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 …