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This study attempts to provide a better understanding of the user dimension as a factor in software game success. It focuses mainly on an empirical investigation of the effect of user factors on the software game development process and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Saiqa Aleem , Luiz Fernando Capretz , Faheem Ahmed , Shuib Basri

Software updates are essential to enhance security, fix bugs, and add better features to the existing software. While some users accept software updates, non-compliance remains a widespread issue. While some users accept software updates,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Mahzabin Tamanna , Mohd Anwar , Joseph D. W. Stephens

Algorithms play a crucial role in many technological systems that control or affect various aspects of our lives. As a result, providing explanations for their decisions to address the needs of users and organisations is increasingly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Trung Dong Huynh , Niko Tsakalakis , Ayah Helal , Sophie Stalla-Bourdillon , Luc Moreau

The continuous evolution of software projects necessitates the implementation of changes to enhance performance and reduce defects. This research explores effective strategies for learning and implementing useful changes in software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Kartik Gupta

About 32% of a software practitioners' day involves seeking and using information to support task completion. Although the information needs of software practitioners have been studied extensively, the impact of AI-assisted tools on their…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Ebtesam Al Haque , Chris Brown , Thomas D. LaToza , Brittany Johnson

Today, web-based companies use user data to provide and enhance services to users, both individually and collectively. Some also analyze user data for other purposes, for example to select advertisements or price offers for users. Some even…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-06-28 Eric Bax , John Donald , Melissa Gerber , Lisa Giaffo , Tanisha Sharma , Nikki Thompson , Kimberly Williams

Computer programs do not always work as expected. In fact, ominous warnings about the desperate state of the software industry continue to be released with almost ritualistic regularity. In this paper, we look at the 60 years history of…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-04-03 Tomas Petricek

Utilizing third party software components in the development of new systems became somewhat unfavourable approach among many organizations nowadays. This reluctance is primarily built due to the lack of support to verify the quality…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-10-16 Basem Y. Alkazemi

Many cybersecurity breaches occur due to users not following good cybersecurity practices, chief among them being regulations for applying software patches to operating systems, updating applications, and maintaining strong passwords. We…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Nirav Ajmeri , Shubham Goyal , Munindar P. Singh

That computers should be easy to learn and use is a rarely-questioned tenet of user interface design. But what do we gain from prioritising usability and learnability, and what do we lose? I explore how simplicity is not an inevitable truth…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Advait Sarkar

Reuse of data in new contexts beyond the purposes for which it was originally collected has contributed to technological innovation and reducing the consent burden on data subjects. One of the legal mechanisms that makes such reuse possible…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Asia J. Biega

A growing number of researchers suggest that software process must be tailored to a project's context to achieve maximal performance. Researchers have studied 'context' in an ad-hoc way, with focus on those contextual factors that appear to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Diana Kirk , Stephen G. MacDonell

When interacting with their software systems, users may have to deal with problems like crashes, failures, and program instability. Faulty software running in the field is not only the consequence of ineffective in-house verification and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-05-23 Luca Gazzola

Physiological signals can potentially be applied as objective measures to understand the behavior and engagement of users interacting with information access systems. However, the signals are highly sensitive, and many controls are required…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Kaixin Ji , Damiano Spina , Danula Hettiachchi , Flora Dilys Salim , Falk Scholer

Requirements volatility is a major issue in software (SW) development, causing problems such as project delays and cost overruns. Even though there is a considerable amount of research related to requirement volatility, the majority of it…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Sanja Aaramaa , Sandun Dasanayake , Markku Oivo , Jouni Markkula , Samuli Saukkonen

There has been a considerable amount of interest in recent years in the problem of workflow satisfiability, which asks whether the existence of constraints in a workflow specification makes it impossible to allocate authorized users to each…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Jason Crampton , Gregory Gutin , Diptapriyo Majumdar

Software is primarily developed for people by people and human factors must be studied in all software engineering phases. Creativity is the source to improvise solutions to problems for dominating complex systems such as software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-05-28 Daniel Graziotin

Background: Despite the potential benefits of software modelling, developers have shown a considerable reluctance towards its application. There is substantial existing research studying industrial use and technical challenges of modelling.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Shalini Chakraborty , Grischa Liebel

This paper presents the results of a research study related to software system failures, with the goal of understanding how we might better evolve, maintain and support software systems in production. We have qualitatively analyzed thirty…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Jonathan Sillito , Esdras Kutomi

Software security is of utmost importance for most software systems. Developers must systematically select, plan, design, implement, and especially, maintain and evolve security features -- functionalities to mitigate attacks or protect…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Kevin Hermann , Sven Peldszus , Jan-Philipp Steghöfer , Thorsten Berger