Software companies have been using Design Thinking (DT) as a user-centered design
approach, putting the user at the center of the software development process. In this article …

Motivation: Code camps and hackathons been used in education for almost two decades.
These approaches are usually intensive and for most times quite practical events for solving …

Context: Software has become ubiquitous in every corner of modern societies. During the
last five decades, software engineering has also changed significantly to advance the …

Hackathons are currently a hot topic in industrial learning settings. Like intensive
collaborative courses (eg code camps), hackathons have been shown to be successful tools …

This study aims to investigate a digitalization-related business model as a result from the
university-SME collaboration. The SME of the case study (Preventos Informatics Ltd) …

This study examines the effects of a design thinking intervention on first-year students'
teamwork skills from a multi-actor perspective. A design thinking course was evaluated …

Companies need to become more environmentally conscious in their actions and business-
based operations. In developed countries, there is an increased pressure towards this …

Research suggests that employers value various soft skills highly when recruiting software
engineering (SE) graduates in the software industry; however, SE graduate students tend to …

The development of systems with different features becomes increasingly challenging, given
the actual context, implying on the search for new approaches for requirements elicitation …

The Internet of Things (IoT) has revolutionized interaction with technology, enabling
seamless connectivity and data exchanges, opening up new possibilities for engineering …