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Tue 29 Apr 2025 11:40 - 12:00 at 206 - Human and Social Aspects in SE Education Chair(s): Cecile Peraire

Students working in teams in software engineering group project often communicate ineffectively, which reduces the quality of deliverables, and is therefore detrimental for project success. An important step towards addressing areas of improvement is identifying which changes to communication will improve team performance the most. We applied two different communication analysis techniques, triad census and socio-technical congruence, to data gathered from a two-semester software engineering group project. Triad census uses the presence of edges between groups of three nodes as a measure of network structure, while socio-technical congruence compares the fit of a team’s communication to their technical dependencies. Our findings suggest that each team’s triad census for a given sprint is promising as a predictor of the percentage of story points they pass, which is closely linked to project success. Meanwhile, socio-technical congruence is inadequate as the sole metric for predicting project success in this context. We discuss these findings, and how we will use them to inform the implementation and evaluation of interventions on task allocation to improve communication in a software engineering group project.

Tue 29 Apr

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11:00 - 12:30
Human and Social Aspects in SE EducationCSEE&T at 206
Chair(s): Cecile Peraire Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley
11:00
20m
Talk
Diversity in Software Engineering Education: Exploring Motivations, Influences, and Role Models Among Undergraduate Students
CSEE&T
Ronnie de Souza Santos University of Calgary, Italo Santos Northern Arizona University, Robson Santos UFPE, Cleyton Magalhaes Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco
Pre-print
11:20
20m
Talk
Video-based Empathy Training for Software Engineers
CSEE&T
Antonija Mitrovic University of Canterbury, New Zealand, Matthias Galster University of Canterbury, Sanna Malinen University of Canterbury, Sreedevi Sankara Iyer University of Canterbury, Raul Vincent Lumapas University of Canterbury, New Zealand, Negar Mohammadhassan University of Canterbury, New Zealand, Jay Holland University of Canterbury
11:40
20m
Talk
Improving Software Engineering Team Communication Through Stronger Social Networks
CSEE&T
April Clarke University of Canterbury, Antonija Mitrovic University of Canterbury, New Zealand, Fabian Gilson University of Canterbury
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