4 papers
Beyond Productivity: Measuring Developers' Cognitive Load During GenAI-Supported Software Development
Charlotte Brandebusemeyer, Daniela Gasser, Tobias Schimmer +1
Generative AI (GenAI) is changing software development workflows and how developers work. Industry evaluations of GenAI adoption often monitor productivity gains, usage, and output…
Developers' Experience with Generative AI Beyond Productivity Assessment -- Insights from an Empirical Mixed-Methods Field Study
Charlotte Brandebusemeyer, Kerim Zunic, Thomas Zimmermann +2
With the growing adoption of AI-powered coding assistants, organizations and developers are increasingly seeking to optimize their interaction with these tools. Prior research has…
Developers' Experience with Generative AI -- First Insights from an Empirical Mixed-Methods Field Study
Charlotte Brandebusemeyer, Tobias Schimmer, Bert Arnrich
With the rise of AI-powered coding assistants, firms and programmers are exploring how to optimize their interaction with them. Research has so far mainly focused on evaluating out…
Using CognitIDE to Capture Developers' Cognitive Load via Physiological Activity During Everyday Software Development Tasks
Fabian Stolp, Charlotte Brandebusemeyer, Franziska Hradilak +4
Integrated development environments (IDE) support developers in a variety of tasks. Unobtrusively capturing developers' cognitive load while working on different programming tasks…