Labour productivity is a key concept for understanding the way modern economies use
resources and features prominently in ecological economics. Ecological economists have …

Context: Software development is a collaborative task. Previous research has shown social
aspects within development teams to be highly relevant for the success of software projects …

A variety of research methods and techniques are available to SE researchers, and while
several overviews exist, there is consistency neither in the research methods covered nor in …

The growing literature on affect among software developers mostly reports on the linkage
between happiness, software quality, and developer productivity. Understanding happiness …

Software developers working on change tasks commonly experience a broad range of
emotions, ranging from happiness all the way to frustration and anger. Research, primarily in …

With the growing prevalence of affective computing applications, Automatic Emotion
Recognition (AER) technologies have garnered attention in both research and industry …

Emotions are known to impact cognitive skills, thus influencing job performance. This is also
true for software development, which requires creativity and problem-solving abilities. In this …

What is a good workday for a software developer? What is a typical workday? We seek to
answer these two questions to learn how to make good days typical. Concretely, answering …

Information workers perform jobs that demand constant multitasking, leading to context
switches, productivity loss, stress, and unhappiness. Systems that can mediate task …

Organizations have a variety of options to help their software developers become their most
productive selves, from modifying office layouts, to investing in better tools, to cleaning up …