Quick start guide to research on human factors of software engineering

This guide is meant to help new graduate students get a short introduction to research at the intersection of human-computer interaction (HCI) and software engineering (SE). By reading the materials listed below, you will get a small taste of the field.

• Finding Causes of Program Output with the Java Whyline, Ko et al., CHI'09.
• The Patchworks Code Editor: Toward Faster Navigation with Less Code Arranging and Fewer Navigation Mistakes, Henley and Fleming, CHI'14.
• Interactive Extraction of Examples from Existing Code, Head et al., CHI'18.

• How Effective Developers Investigate Source Code: An Exploratory Study, Robillard et al., TSE'04.
• Maintaining Mental Models: A Study of Developer Work Habits, LaToza et al., ICSE'06.
• Foraging and Navigations, Fundamentally: Developers' Predictions of Value and Cost, Piorkowski et al., FSE'16.
• How We Refactor, and How We Know It, Murphy-Hill et al., TSE'11.

• Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches, Creswell and Creswell.
• A Practical Guide to Controlled Experiments of Software Engineering Tools with Human Participants, Ko et al., ESE'13.
• Programmers are Users Too: Human Centered Methods for Improving Tools for Programming, Myers et al., Computer'16.

• The Design of Everyday Things, Don Norman.
• Cooperative Software Development, Amy J. Ko. (Free online)