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User feedback is crucial for the evolution of mobile apps. However, research suggests that users tend to submit uninformative, vague, or destructive feedback. Unlike recent AI4SE approaches that focus on generating code and other…

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Context: The increasing reliance on Code Generation Tools (CGTs), such as Windsurf and GitHub Copilot, are revamping programming workflows and raising critical questions about fairness and inclusivity. While CGTs offer potential…

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Software practitioners discuss problems at work with peers, in-person and online. These discussions can be technical (e.g., how to fix a bug?) and social (e.g., how to assign work fairly?). While there is a growing body of knowledge…

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We present an analysis of 12 million instances of privacy-relevant reviews publicly visible on the Google Play Store that span a 10 year period. By leveraging state of the art NLP techniques, we examine what users have been writing about…

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Usability is an increasing concern in open source software (OSS). Given the recent changes in the OSS landscape, it is imperative to examine the OSS contributors' current valued factors, practices, and challenges concerning usability. We…

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Given the ubiquity of mobile applications (apps) in daily lives, understanding and reflecting end-users' human values (e.g., transparency, privacy, social recognition etc.) in apps has become increasingly important. Violations of end users'…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Rifat Ara Shams , Mojtaba Shahin , Gillian Oliver , Jon Whittle , Waqar Hussain , Harsha Perera , Arif Nurwidyantoro

In the development and evolution of VR ecosystem, platform stakeholders continuously adapt their products in response to user and technical feedback, often reflected in subtle shifts in discussion topics or system updates. A comprehensive…

Users review about an app is a crucial component for open mobile application market, such as the AppStore and the Google play. Analyzing these reviews can reveal user's sentiment towards a feature in the app. There exist several analytical…

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App reviews are crowdsourcing knowledge of user experience with the apps, providing valuable information for app release planning, such as major bugs to fix and important features to add. There exist prior explorations on app review mining…

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User-generated content plays a key role in social networking, allowing a more active participation, socialisation, and collaboration among users. In particular, media content has been gaining a lot of ground, allowing users to express…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Letícia Seixas Pereira , José Coelho , André Rodrigues , João Guerreiro , Tiago Guerreiro , Carlos Duarte

Viewing social apps as sociotechnical systems makes clear that they are not mere pieces of technology but mediate human interaction and may unintentionally enable harmful behaviors like online harassment. As more users interact through…

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Mobile apps are one of the building blocks of the mobile digital economy. A differentiating feature of mobile apps to traditional enterprise software is online reviews, which are available on app marketplaces and represent a valuable source…

Applications · Statistics 2018-02-20 Shawn Mankad , Shengli Hu , Anandasivam Gopal

Explainability, i.e. the ability of a system to explain its behavior to users, has become an important quality of software-intensive systems. Recent work has focused on methods for generating explanations for various algorithmic paradigms…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Max Unterbusch , Mersedeh Sadeghi , Jannik Fischbach , Martin Obaidi , Andreas Vogelsang

Fairness is a growing concern for high-risk decision-making using Artificial Intelligence (AI) but ensuring it through purely technical means is challenging: there is no universally accepted fairness measure, fairness is context-dependent,…

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Accessibility reviews provide valuable insights into both the limitations and benefits experienced by users with disabilities when using virtual reality (VR) applications. However, a comprehensive investigation into VR accessibility for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Yi Wang , Chetan Arora , Xiao Liu , Thuong Hoang , ZHengxin Zhang , Henry Been Lirn Duh , John Grundy

Background: It has long been suggested that user feedback, typically written in natural language by end-users, can help issue detection. However, for large-scale online service systems that receive a tremendous amount of feedback, it…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Shuyao Jiang , Jiazhen Gu , Wujie Zheng , Yangfan Zhou , Michael R. Lyu

Listening to user's requirements is crucial to building and maintaining high quality software. Online software user feedback has been shown to contain large amounts of information useful to requirements engineering (RE). Previous studies…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Peter Devine , Yun Sing Koh , Kelly Blincoe

Being able to access software in daily life is vital for everyone, and thus accessibility is a fundamental challenge for software development. However, given the number of accessibility issues reported by many users, e.g., in app reviews,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Tingting Bi , Xin Xia , David Lo , John Grundy , Thomas Zimmermann , Denae Ford

On social media platforms like Twitter, users regularly share their opinions and comments with software vendors and service providers. Popular software products might get thousands of user comments per day. Research has shown that such…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Christoph Stanik , Tim Pietz , Walid Maalej

GitHub provides developers with a practical way to distribute source code and collaboratively work on common projects. To enhance account security and privacy, GitHub allows its users to manage access permissions, review audit logs, and…

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