Rethinking Productivity in Software Engineering

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C. Sadowski, T. Zimmermann (eds.)Rethinking Productivity in Software Engineeringhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4221-6_13

13. Human-Centered Methods to Boost Productivity

Brad A. Myers¹ , Andrew J. Ko², Thomas D. LaToza³ and YoungSeok Yoon⁴

(1)

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

(2)

University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA

(3)

George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA

(4)

Google, Seoul, Korea

 

Since programming is a human activity, we can look to fields that have already developed methods to better understand the details of human interactions with technologies. In particular, the field of human-computer interaction (HCI) has dozens, if not hundreds, of methods that have been validated for answering ...