* ICSE 2018 *
Sun 27 May - Sun 3 June 2018 Gothenburg, Sweden
Fri 1 Jun 2018 09:20 - 09:40 at H2 room - Studying Software Engineers II Chair(s): Minghui Zhou

Globally observed trends in aging indicate that older adults constitute a growing share of the population and an increasing demographic in the modern technologies marketplace. Therefore, it has become important to address the issue of participation of older adults in the process of developing solutions suitable for their group. In this study, we approached this topic by organizing a hackathon involving teams of young programmers and older adults participants. Below we describe a case study of that hackathon, in which our objective was to motivate older adults to participate in software engineering processes. Based on our results from an array of qualitative methods, we propose a set of good practices that may lead to improved older adult participation in similar events and an improved process of developing apps that target older adults.

Fri 1 Jun

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09:00 - 10:30
Studying Software Engineers IIJournal first papers / Technical Papers at H2 room
Chair(s): Minghui Zhou Peking University
09:00
20m
Talk
What makes a great manager of software engineers?
Journal first papers
Eirini Kalliamvakou University of Victoria, Christian Bird Microsoft Research, Thomas Zimmermann Microsoft Research, Andrew Begel Microsoft Research, Robert Deline , Daniel M. German
09:20
20m
Talk
Older adults and hackathons: a qualitative study
Journal first papers
Wiesław Kopeć Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology, Bartłomiej Balcerzak , Radosław Nielek , Grzegorz Kowalik , Adam Wierzbicki , Fabio Casati
Link to publication DOI
09:40
20m
Talk
Does Syntax Highlighting Help Programming Novices?
Journal first papers
Christoph Hannebauer , Marc Hesenius , Volker Gruhn University Duisburg-Essen
10:00
20m
Talk
Do programmers work at night or during weekend?
Technical Papers
Maëlick Claes , Mika Mäntylä University of Oulu, Miikka Kuutila , Bram Adams MCIS, École Polytechnique de Montréal
Pre-print
10:20
10m
Talk
Q&A in groups
Technical Papers