Empirical research aims to establish generalizable claims from data. Such claims may
involve concepts that must be measured indirectly by using indicators. Construct validity is …

Small, self-directed teams are central in agile development. This article investigates the
effect of teamwork quality on team performance, learning and work satisfaction in agile …

A key requirement for seamless human-robot collaboration is for the robot to make its
intentions clear to its human collaborator. A collaborative robot's motion must be legible, or …

Context: Code smells are assumed to indicate bad design that leads to less maintainable
code. However, this assumption has not been investigated in controlled studies with …

Small flying robots represent a rapidly emerging family of robotic technologies with aerial
capabilities that enable unique forms of assistance in a variety of collaborative tasks. Such …

Legible motion---motion that communicates its intent to a human observer---is crucial for
enabling seamless human-robot collaboration. In this paper, we propose a functional …

Assistive free-flyers (AFFs) are an emerging robotic platform with unparalleled flight
capabilities that appear uniquely suited to exploration, surveillance, inspection, and …

Time pressure is prevalent in the software industry in which shorter and shorter deadlines
and high customer demands lead to increasingly tight deadlines. However, the effects of …

Context is a central concept in empirical software engineering. It is one of the distinctive
features of the discipline and it is an in-dispensable part of software practice. It is likely …

Context Companies increasingly strive to adapt to market and ecosystem changes in real
time. Gauging and understanding team performance in such changing environments …