*IEEE Software Theme Issue on Sentiment and Emotion in Software

Engineering: Call for Papers*

*Submission deadline: 1 Feb. 2019Publication: Sept./Oct. 2019*

https://publications.computer.org/software-magazine/2018/07/18/sentiment-emotion-software-engineering-call-papers/


Over the past decade, research has shown the impact of affective states on work performance and team collaboration. This also applies to software engineering that involves people in a broad range of activities, where personality, moods, and emotions play a crucial role. Software development is a mainly intellectual activity, requiring creativity and problem-solving skills that are known to be influenced by affective states. For successful software engineering projects, stakeholders need to experience positive emotions, to agree on emotion display rules, and to hold mutual commitment to the project goals. Conversely, negative affective states (such as resentment or frustration) might be an obstacle when reacting to undesirable facts (e.g., a negative customer feedback), and can impact the cognitive processes involved in learning a new language, solving tasks with high reasoning complexity, and performing usual programming and code comprehension tasks. Finally, software engineering involves a large number of social interactions as programmers often need to cooperate with others, whether directly or indirectly. Being aware of the project mood and how our own affective states reflect in our communication style might help developers being wise in team working, thus improving the outcome of collaborative development.

As such, researchers recently started to study the role of affective computing and affective states in software engineering. This special issue proposal naturally reflects this recent trend that has emerged to study the role of affect in software engineering. Specifically, the goal of this theme issue of IEEE Software is to share with software engineering practitioners the current trends and recent advances in research and practice and latest tools and framework aimed at enhancing and supporting emotion awareness in software development, as emerged from recent results and insights from academic research.

We invite practice-oriented papers covering any aspect of sentiment and emotion awareness in software engineering. We aim at covering a rich variety of topics focusing on issues, challenges, methods, and practices that relate to the role of emotions in software development. The topics of interests for this theme issue include, but are not limited to:

* Impact of affective states (emotions, moods, attitudes, personality traits) on individual and group performance

* The role of emotions in the collaborative software development

* Leveraging stakeholders=E2=80=99 affective feedback to improve software, tools, and processes

* Design, development, and evaluation of tools and datasets for supporting emotion awareness in software engineering

* Reusable software frameworks, APIs, and patterns for affect-aware systems

* Ethnographic approaches to affect monitoring in software development

* Mining sentiment and emotion from developers=E2=80=99 communication traces

* Sentiment and emotion detection from biometrics

* Methodologies and tools for large-scale emotion mining

* Emotion awareness in requirements engineering, software design, and software management

* Emotion awareness in software design philosophies, development practices, and tools

* Emotion awareness in cross-cultural teams in global software development

* Methodologies and standards



Besides seeking regular-length articles, we also seek short experience reports from practitioners. These reports do not need to make a research contribution but should instead present the experiences of practitioners or tool developers that share their practical insights and experience related to the topic focusing on challenges faced, solutions attempted, and results obtained.

*Questions?*

For more information about the focus, contact the guest editors:

* *Nicole Novielli*, Universite degli Studi Aldo Moro di Bari, Italy, [email protected]

* *Per Lenberg*, SAAB, [email protected]

* *Alexander Serebrenik*, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands, [email protected]

*Submission Guidelines*

Manuscripts must not exceed 3,000 words, including figures and tables, which count for 250 words each. Submissions in excess of these limits may be rejected without refereeing. The articles we deem within the theme and scope will be peer-reviewed and are subject to editing for magazine style, clarity, organization, and space. We reserve the right to edit the title of all submissions. Be sure to include the name of the theme you're submitting for.

Articles should have a practical orientation and be written in a style accessible to practitioners. Overly complex, purely research-oriented or theoretical treatments aren't appropriate. Articles should be novel. IEEE Software doesn't republish material published previously in other venues, including other periodicals and formal conference or workshop proceedings, whether previous publication was in print or electronic form.

For general author guidelines: www.computer.org/software/author.htm

For submission details: [email protected]

To submit an article: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/sw-cs