New paper accepted: ACM CHI 2025
Funded by the School's Program Initilisation fund, the "Human-Centric Software Engineering: Platform and Education" research program has been successfully launched.
Program Lead: Xiao Liu
Members
SE: Chetan Arora, Mohamed Abdelrazek, Niroshinie Fernando, Jean-Guy Schneider
HCI/VR: Thuong Hoang, Guy Wood-Bradley, Shaun Bangay, Glory Lee, Rui Wang
Education: Sophie McKenzie, Chathu Ranaweera, Elicia Lanham
Research students
Owen Wang - PhD
Ben Cheng - PhD
Kami Jiang - Master
Program Vision:
Human-Centric Software Engineering (HCSE) focuses on the human aspects in engineering software systems and studies how humans play a role in software engineering and aims to design intelligent tools to assist human developers and improve the human user experiences. The lack of in-depth understanding and incorporation of human-centric issues during the software engineering process, often lead to software and software project failures such as security breaches, time and cost overruns, deployment, maintenance, and usability issues. These failures will lead to huge economic losses, inefficiencies, not fit-for-purpose solutions, dangerous and even life-threatening situations.
The research program aims to design the next generation of behaviour detection and emotion recognition platform for human-centric software engineering, as well as a new approach to software engineering education about human-centric factors.
Aim 1: to develop a prototype platform that incorporates human factors (behaviour and emotion) in the first stage of software engineering (requirement engineering) and evaluate the prototype.
Aim 2: to develop a guideline for integrating human factors education in traditional software engineering curriculum.