8 papers
FocusBuddy: Encouraging Healthy Desk-Work Habits by Caring for a Virtual Pet on a Water Bottle
Mohamed Ouf, Rowan Hussein
People who study or work at a desk sit for long uninterrupted periods and drink less water than they intend to. Software reminders address both problems but are easy to dismiss and…
Where the Cost Falls: A Deployment-Aware Adoption Order for Stability Enhancements to Cycle-Consistent Adversarial Networks
Rowan Hussein, Mohamed Ouf
Teams that adopt cycle-consistent adversarial networks for unpaired image-to-image translation meet the same obstacles: adversarial training oscillates or collapses, cycle consiste…
Single-Channel EEG-Based Cognitive Load Assessment in Online Learning: A Hybrid Deep Learning Approach
Rowan Hussein, Mohamed Ouf
Monitoring cognitive load during online learning could help instructors identify content that learners find difficult, but remote settings remove the visual cues that support this…
Open Source Is Not One Thing: A Typology of Open-Source Software Sub-Genres
Mohamed Ouf, Rowan Hussein
Open source software (OSS) is not homogeneous. A project's purpose, governance, and funding shape how its community forms, who contributes, and how the software is maintained, yet…
Same Project, Different Start: How Contribution Events Shape Activity and Retention in Open Source
Mohamed Ouf, Mariam Guizani
Open source projects depend on newcomers who stay, yet most leave after a single contribution. Contribution events such as Google Summer of Code, LFX Mentorship, Hacktoberfest, and…
An Empirical Analysis of Community and Coding Patterns in OSS4SG vs. Conventional OSS
Mohamed Ouf, Shayan Noei, Zeph Van Iterson +2
Open Source Software for Social Good (OSS4SG) projects aim to address critical societal challenges, such as healthcare access and community safety. Understanding the community dyna…
Do Good, Stay Longer? Temporal Patterns and Predictors of Newcomer-to-Core Transitions in Conventional OSS and OSS4SG
Mohamed Ouf, Amr Mohamed, Mariam Guizani
Open Source Software (OSS) sustainability relies on newcomers transitioning to core contributors, but this pipeline is broken, with most newcomers becoming inactive after initial c…
Reverse Engineering User Stories from Code using Large Language Models
Mohamed Ouf, Haoyu Li, Michael Zhang +1
User stories are essential in agile development, yet often missing or outdated in legacy and poorly documented systems. We investigate whether large language models (LLMs) can auto…