ICSE 2026
Sun 12 - Sat 18 April 2026 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Wed 15 Apr 2026 11:45 - 12:00 at Oceania VI - Education 1 Chair(s): Yaroslav Golubev

Hybrid capstone projects present unique emotional and collaboration challenges for software engineering students working across in-person and remote settings. Emotions significantly influence how students communicate, coordinate, and evaluate their team performance, yet they are often underexplored in software engineering education. This study investigates the emotional dynamics of student teams during Scrum retrospective meetings using speech-based emotion recognition. We analyzed audio from 24 retrospectives across four student teams using WavLM-Large, fine-tuned on the IEMOCAP dataset, to detect expressed emotions. These results were correlated with self-assessed team performance data collected from post-sprint surveys. Our findings reveal that (1) frustration and excitement as the most frequent non-neutral emotions; (2) emotional expression varied significantly across meeting formats, with in-person meetings fostering a wider emotional range due to higher social presence, hybrid meetings displaying mixed emotional dynamics caused by the split between remote and in-person participants, and online meetings being more emotionally restrained due to limited non-verbal cues; and (3) a strong negative correlation between frustration and perceived team performance, while calmer, neutral-toned discussions were positively associated with higher self-assessed ratings. These findings highlight the importance of emotional awareness in team-based learning and offer recommendations for creating emotionally supportive, modality-aware learning environments in software engineering education.

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Wed 15 Apr

Displayed time zone: Brasilia, Distrito Federal, Brazil change

11:00 - 12:30
11:00
15m
Talk
Why Students Leave the LMS: Executive Function Demands and Self-Regulated Learning in Software Engineering Courses
Software Engineering Education and Training (SEET)
Khawla Shnaikat University of Calgary, Ann Barcomb Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary, Emily Marasco University of Calgary
11:15
15m
Talk
What barriers do students experience when trying to contribute to Open Source Software projects?
Software Engineering Education and Training (SEET)
Nathan Cassee University of Victoria, Sankarsh Ravi Eindhoven University of Technology, Italo Santos University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Igor Steinmacher RESHAPE LAB, Northern Arizona University, USA, Alexander Serebrenik Eindhoven University of Technology
11:30
15m
Talk
Mapping educational software engineering content on YouTube
Software Engineering Education and Training (SEET)
Maša Pejović Mediterranean University Podgorica, Nikola Vasović Mediterranean University Podgorica, Antonio Cicchetti Sweden, Robbert Jongeling Mälardalen University
11:45
15m
Talk
When Emotions Matter: Speech-Based Emotion Detection in Capstone Project Retrospective Meetings while Working Hybrid
Software Engineering Education and Training (SEET)
Wardah Naeem Awan LUT University, Maria Paasivaara LUT University, Finland & Aalto University, Finland, Peter Gloor Massachusetts Institute of Technology SDM
12:00
15m
Talk
Examining Productivity in Educational Environments: Perspectives of Professors and Students on a Capstone Project
Software Engineering Education and Training (SEET)
12:15
15m
Talk
An Empirical Study of Anonymous, Unmoderated, and Online Peer-to-Peer Programming Tutoring Conversations
Software Engineering Education and Training (SEET)
Priscila Santiesteban University of Michigan, Emma Shedden University of Pennsylvania, Madeline Endres University of Massachusetts Amherst, Westley Weimer University of Michigan