Category: Activity Based Computing

  • Initial Evaluation of ABC4GSD

    As I have shared on these pages that we are trying to build an infrastructure based on the principles of Activity Based Computing (ABC), a paradigm that is being increasingly explored for designing Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) and software application inspired by Activity Theory (AT). This work  has resulted in an infrastructure, called ABC4GSD, for…

  • Summer School on Software Engineering in Salerno, Italy

    I have just arrived in Italy to give a tutorial at the 10th anniversary of the International Summer School on Software Engineering that is being organised at the University of Salerno, Italy. The summer school was founded back in 2003 with the aim of providing Ph.D. students and academic and industrial researchers with the latest…

  • Sharing Experiences from Human-Centric Software Engineering Research

    My current visit of down under (Australia) provided me with several opportunities to visit several colleagues, albeit for short catch meetings, and share our current research directions and  outcomes. My discussions and invited talks mainly focused on our experiences of devising and executing an ambitious agenda of taking an interdisciplinary approach to combining our historical…

  • Leveraging Activity Based Computing and Cloud Computing for Global Software Engineering

    We have been working on exploring the use of activity based computing for guiding the design and development of next generation of tools for supporting software engineering in general and global software engineering in particular. At the same time, we have started work on leveraging cloud computing for the provision of such platforms and tools…

  • Towards the theoretical foundations of Applying ABC in GSE

    One of my PhD students, Paolo Tell, and I have been working on  exploring the viability of using activity-based computing (ABC) paradigm for designing and developing the next generation of tools for supporting Global Software Engineering. The fundamental assumption of our research on applying ABC for building GSE tools is that a large majority of…