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As generative AI (GenAI) increasingly permeates design workflows, its impact on design outcomes and designers' creative capabilities warrants investigation. We conducted a within-subjects experiment where we asked participants to design…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Yue Fu , Han Bin , Tony Zhou , Marx Wang , Yixin Chen , Zelia Gomes Da Costa Lai , Jacob O. Wobbrock , Alexis Hiniker

Generative AI (genAI) tools promise productivity gains, yet miscalibrated trust and usage friction still hinder adoption. Moreover, genAI can be exclusionary, failing to adequately support diverse users. One such aspect of diversity is…

Test Driven Development (TDD) is one of the major practices of Extreme Programming for which incremental testing and refactoring trigger the code development. TDD has limited adoption in the industry, as it requires more code to be…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Moritz Mock , Jorge Melegati , Barbara Russo

The use of generative AI (GenAI) tools has fundamentally transformed software development. Central to this shift is prompt engineering, the practice of crafting textual prompts to guide GenAI tools in generating useful content. Although…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Daniel Otten , Trevor Stalnaker , Nathan Wintersgill , Oscar Chaparro , Denys Poshyvanyk

Artificial intelligence (AI), including large language models and generative AI, is emerging as a significant force in software development, offering developers powerful tools that span the entire development lifecycle. Although software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Christoph Treude , Marco A. Gerosa

Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is rapidly reshaping software development, with growing emphasis on accelerating productivity and optimizing performance. However, excessive focus on such dimensions risks overlooking the critical…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Mariam Guizani , Maduka Subasinghage , Sherlock A. Licorish , Sofia Ouhbi

With the rapid adoption of Generative AI (GenAI) tools, software engineering educators have grappled with how best to incorporate them into the classroom. While some research discusses the use of GenAI in the context of learning to code,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Victoria Jackson , Susannah Liu , Andre van der Hoek

The applications of generative AI have become extremely impressive, and the interplay between users and AI is even more so. Current human-AI interaction literature has taken a broad look at how humans interact with generative AI, but it…

GenAI solutions like GitHub Copilot have been shown to increase the productivity of software developers. Yet prior work remains unclear on the quality of code produced and the challenges of maintaining it in software projects. If quality…

General Economics · Economics 2026-01-29 Feiyang Xu , Poonacha K. Medappa , Murat M. Tunc , Martijn Vroegindeweij , Jan C. Fransoo

Generative AI tools such as ChatGPT now provide novice programmers with unprecedented access to instant, personalized support. While this holds clear promise, their influence on students' metacognitive processes remains underexplored.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Boxuan Ma , Huiyong Li , Gen Li , Li Chen , Cheng Tang , Yinjie Xie , Chenghao Gu , Atsushi Shimada , Shin'ichi Konomi

Generative AI models are increasingly being integrated into human task workflows, enabling the production of expressive content across a wide range of contexts. Unlike traditional human-AI design methods, the new approach to designing…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Hari Subramonyam , Divy Thakkar , Andrew Ku , Jürgen Dieber , Anoop Sinha

Background: The increasing adoption of AI assistants in programming has led to numerous studies exploring their benefits. While developers consistently report significant productivity gains from these tools, empirical measurements often…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Ebtesam Al Haque , Chris Brown , Thomas D. LaToza , Brittany Johnson

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is increasingly used for programming, yet it remains unclear when and where GenAI tools lead to productivity gains. Evidence on the effects of GenAI on the long-term development of programming…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Sebastian Maier , Moritz Gunzenhäuser , Jonas Schweisthal , Manuel Schneider , Stefan Feuerriegel

The growing integration of AI tools in software development, particularly Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, has revolutionized how developers approach coding tasks. However, achieving high-quality code often requires iterative…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Sophia DiCuffa , Amanda Zambrana , Priyanshi Yadav , Sashidhar Madiraju , Khushi Suman , Eman Abdullah AlOmar

In collaboration with Alibaba, this study leverages a large-scale field experiment to assess the impact of a generative AI assistant on worker performance in e-commerce after-sales service. Human agents providing digital chat support were…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Xiao Ni , Yiwei Wang , Tianjun Feng , Lauren Xiaoyan Lu , Yitong Wang , Congyi Zhou

Context. The rise of generative AI (GenAI) tools like ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot has transformed how software is learned and written. In software engineering (SE) education, these tools offer new opportunities for support, but also raise…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Qiaolin Qin , Ronnie de Souza Santos , Rodrigo Spinola

Generative AI tools hold promise to increase human productivity. This paper presents results from a controlled experiment with GitHub Copilot, an AI pair programmer. Recruited software developers were asked to implement an HTTP server in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Sida Peng , Eirini Kalliamvakou , Peter Cihon , Mert Demirer

This work takes a pedagogical lens to explore the implications of generative AI (GenAI) models and tools, such as ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot, in a semester-long 2nd-year undergraduate Software Engineering Team Project. Qualitative findings…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Ahmed Kharrufa , Sami Alghamdi , Abeer Aziz , Christopher Bull

Software practitioners are discussing GenAI transformations in software project management openly and widely. To understand the state of affairs, we performed a grey literature review using 47 publicly available practitioner sources…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Lakshana Iruni Assalaarachchi , Zainab Masood , Rashina Hoda , John Grundy

The rapid adoption of generative AI in software development has impacted the industry, yet its effects on developers with visual impairments remain largely unexplored. To address this gap, we used an Activity Theory framework to examine how…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Claudia Flores-Saviaga , Benjamin V. Hanrahan , Kashif Imteyaz , Steven Clarke , Saiph Savage