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#computer vision Book Open access Jul 2015

Understanding the affect of developers: theoretical background and guidelines for psychoempirical software engineering

This paper highlights the challenges to conduct proper affect-related studies with psychology, provides a comprehensive literature review in affect theory, and proposes guidelines for conducting psychoempirical software engineering.

D. Graziotin, Xiaofeng Wang, P. Abrahamsson · 56 citations · ⚡4
#computer vision Review Open access May 2015

A survey study on major technical barriers affecting the decision to adopt cloud services

The comparison of adopter and non-adopter sample reveals three potential adoption inhibitor, security, data privacy, and portability, which underlines the importance of the technical and security perspectives for research investigating the adoption of technology.

Nattakarn Phaphoom, Xiaofeng Wang, S. Samuel et al. · 111 citations · ⚡8
#computer vision Open access May 2015

The Affect of Software Developers: Common Misconceptions and Measurements

Common misconceptions of affects when dealing with job satisfaction, motivation, commitment, well-being, and happiness are provided; validated measurement instruments for affect measurement; and recommendations when measuring the affects of software developers are provided.

D. Graziotin, Xiaofeng Wang, P. Abrahamsson · 29 citations · ⚡3
#computer vision Open access May 2015

How do you feel, developer? An explanatory theory of the impact of affects on programming performance

This paper conducts a qualitative interpretive study based on face-to-face open-ended interviews, in-field observations, and e-mail exchanges to construct a novel explanatory theory of the impact of affects on development performance.

D. Graziotin, Xiaofeng Wang, P. Abrahamsson · 63 citations · ⚡5
#machine learning Review Open access May 2016

Key Challenges in Software Startups Across Life Cycle Stages

It is found that what perceived as biggest challenges by software startups do vary across different life cycle stages, even though its significance decreases when the learning focuses of the startups move from problem to solution and their products mature.

Xiaofeng Wang, Henry Edison, Sohaib Shahid Bajwa et al. · 62 citations · ⚡6
#computer vision Open access Oct 2016

Software Startups - A Research Agenda

Software startup companies develop innovative, software-intensive products within limited timeframes and with few resources, searching for sustainable and scalable business models.

M. Unterkalmsteiner, P. Abrahamsson, Xiaofeng Wang et al. · 157 citations · ⚡17
#computer vision Conference Open access Aug 2016

Product Innovation through Internal Startup in Large Software Companies: A Case Study

A case study of a large software company was conducted to examine how a new product was developed through the internal startup effort and struggled to achieve the desired outcomes set by the management, and the conceptual framework was developed into a Lean startup-enabled new product development model for large softwa...

Henry Edison, Xiaofeng Wang, P. Abrahamsson · 11 citations · ⚡1

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What AI gets wrong and what failure teaches us

Jennifer Neville did not want to go into computer science—but that’s exactly where she landed. Neville discusses the starts and stops that led to her professional sweet spot and her work identifying “surprising failures” making it hard for AI to handle complexity.  The post What AI gets wrong and what failure teaches us appeared first on Microsoft Research.

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