Combining biometric data with focused document types classifies a success of program comprehension
Program comprehension is one of the important cognitive processes in software maintenance. The process typically involves diverse mental activities such as understanding of source code, library usages, and requirements. Systematic supports would be improved if the supports can be aware of such fine-grained mental activities during program comprehension. Here we aim to investigate whether biometric data can be varied according to such mental activity classes and conduct an experiment with program comprehension tasks involving multiple documents. As a result, we successfully classified the success/failure of the tasks at 85.2% from electroencephalogram (EEG) combined with focused document types. This result suggests that our metrics based on EEG and focused document types might be beneficial to detect developers’ diverse mental activities triggered by different documents.
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00:00 - 01:00 | Session 9: For DevelopersTool Demonstration / Research / ERA at ICPC Chair(s): Anderson Oliveira PUC-Rio | ||
00:00 12mPaper | An Empirical Study on Dynamic Typing Related Practices in Python Systems Research Zhifei Chen Nanjing University, Yanhui Li Department of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University, Bihuan Chen Fudan University, Wanwangying Ma Nanjing University, Lin Chen Nanjing University, Baowen Xu Nanjing University Media Attached | ||
00:12 12mPaper | Performing Tasks Can Improve Program Comprehension Mental Model of Novice Research Amal A. Shargabi Qassim University, Syed Ahmad Aljunid Universiti Teknologi MARA, Muthukkaruppan Annamalai Universiti Teknologi MARA, Abdullah Mohd Zin Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Media Attached | ||
00:24 12mPaper | SimplyHover: Improving Comprehension of else Statements Tool Demonstration Ahmad Jbara Computer and Cyber Sciences, Augusta University, Georgia, USA, Bar Ben Michael , Or Shacham , Omer Tavor Media Attached | ||
00:36 12mPaper | Combining biometric data with focused document types classifies a success of program comprehension ERA Toyomi Ishida Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Hidetake Uwano National Institute of Technology, Nara College, Japan, Yoshiharu Ikutani Nara Institute of Science and Technology Media Attached | ||
00:48 12mPaper | Program Comprehension in Virtual Reality ERA James Dominic Clemson University, Brock Tubre Clemson Universtiy, Jada Houser Clemson University, Charles Ritter Clemson University, Deborah Kunkel Clemson University, Paige Rodeghero Clemson University Media Attached | ||