Name:Helen Sharp

Bio:

Helen Sharp is Emerita Professor of Software Engineering at the Open University, UK. Her research investigates professional software practice with a focus on human and social aspects of software development and she has been studying agile practice since 2000. Sharp has led multi-disciplinary research projects into software practice with partners in the UK and abroad, and conducts her research exclusively in-situ with software practitioners in their industrial context. Sharp is joint author of one of the leading HCI textbooks, Interaction Design: beyond human-computer interaction (id-book.com) now in its 6th edition. She has been on the editorial boards for several journals, and programme committees for leading conferences such as ICSE, XP, CHI, and ESE.

Country:United Kingdom

Affiliation:The Open University, UK

Research interests:human and social aspects of software engineering, ethnography, agility, practice