13 papers
Supporting Belonging in Software Engineering Through Role Models Exposure
Ronnie de Souza Santos
Role models are widely discussed in educational research as influential in students identity development and sense of belonging, yet less attention has been given to how role model…
Large Language Models in Game Development: Implications for Gameplay, Playability, and Player Experience
Keeryn Johnson, Muhammad Ahmed, Charlie Lang +3
This paper investigates how the integration of large language models influences gameplay, playability, and player experience in game development. We report a collaborative autoethn…
Fairness Across Fields: Comparing Software Engineering and Human Sciences Perspectives
Lucas Valenca, Ronnie de Souza Santos
Background. As digital technologies increasingly shape social domains such as healthcare, public safety, entertainment, and education, software engineering has engaged with ethical…
Advancing Evidence-Based Social Sustainability in Software Engineering: A Research Roadmap
Bimpe Ayoola, Anielle Andrade, Ronnie de Souza Santos +1
Social sustainability in software development means creating and maintaining systems that promote pro-social values (e.g., human well-being, equity), both now and in the future. Ho…
Staying or Leaving? How Job Satisfaction, Embeddedness and Antecedents Predict Turnover Intentions of Software Professionals
Miikka Kuutila, Paul Ralph, Huilian Sophie Qiu +13
Context: Voluntary turnover is common in the software industry, increasing recruitment and onboarding costs and the risk of losing organizational and tacit knowledge. Objective: Th…
The Software Infrastructure Attitude Scale (SIAS): A Questionnaire Instrument for Measuring Professionals' Attitudes Toward Technical and Sociotechnical Infrastructure
Miikka Kuutila, Paul Ralph, Huilian Sophie Qiu +19
Context: Recent software engineering (SE) research has highlighted the need for sociotechnical research, implying a demand for customized psychometric scales. Objective: We define…