[CogSci] [CfP] IEEE Software - Theme Issue on Sentiment and Emotion in Software Engineering

[Nicole Novielli]

*[Apologies for cross-posting]*


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*IEEE Software Theme Issue on *
*Sentiment and Emotion in Software Engineering: Call for Papers*
https://publications.computer.org/software-magazine/2018/07/18/sentiment-emotion-software-engineering-call-papers/

*Submission deadline: 1 Feb. 2019*
*Publication: Sept./Oct. 2019*

Over the past decade, research has shown the affective states’ impact on
work performance and team collaboration. This also applies to software
engineering, which involves people in a broad range of activities in which
personality, moods, and emotions play a crucial role. Software development
is a mainly intellectual activity requiring creativity and problem-solving
skills, which are known to be influenced by affective states.
For successful software engineering projects, stakeholders need to
experience positive emotions, agree on emotion display rules, and be
mutually committed to the project goals. Conversely, negative affective
states (such as resentment or frustration) might be an obstacle when
stakeholders react to undesirable facts (for example, negative customer
feedback). Such states can also impact the cognitive processes involved in
learning a new language, solving tasks with high reasoning complexity, and
performing the usual programming and code comprehension tasks.
Finally, software engineering involves numerous social interactions, as
programmers often need to cooperate with others, whether directly or
indirectly. Developers’ awareness of the project mood and of how their
communication style reflects their affective state might help them become
wise in teamwork, thus improving the outcome of collaborative development.
So, researchers have recently started studying the role of affective
computing and affective states in software engineering. This theme issue of
IEEE Software aims to share with practitioners the current trends and
recent advances in research and practice and the latest tools and
frameworks for supporting and enhancing emotion awareness in software
development.

We invite *practice-oriented papers* covering any aspect of sentiment and
emotion awareness in software engineering. We aim to cover a rich variety
of topics, focusing on issues, challenges, methods, and practices related
to the role of emotions in software development. Topics of interest
include, but are not limited to,

   - the impact of affective states (emotions, moods, attitudes, and
   personality traits) on individual and group performance;
   - the role of emotions in collaborative software development;
   - leveraging stakeholders’ affective feedback to improve software,
   tools, and processes;
   - design, development, and evaluation of tools and datasets for
   supporting emotion awareness in software engineering;
   - reusable software frameworks, APIs, and patterns for affect-aware
   systems;
   - ethnographic approaches to affect monitoring in software development;
   - mining sentiment and emotion from developers’ communication traces;
   - sentiment and emotion detection from biometrics;
   - methodologies and tools for large-scale emotion mining;
   - emotion awareness in requirements engineering, software design, and
   software management;
   - emotion awareness in software design philosophies, development
   practices, and tools;
   - emotion awareness in cross-cultural teams in global software
   development; and
   - methodologies and standards.

In addition to regular-length articles, we seek short experience reports.
These reports don’t need to make a research contribution. Instead, they
should present the experiences of practitioners or tool developers, sharing
their practical experience and insights and focusing on the challenges
faced, solutions attempted, and results obtained.

*Questions?*
For more information about the theme issue, contact the guest editors:
- Nicole Novielli, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro,
nicole.novielli at uniba.it
- Per Lenberg, Saab, per.lenberg at saabgroup.com
- Alexander Serebrenik, Eindhoven University of Technology,
a.serebrenik at tue.nl

*Submission Guidelines*
Manuscripts must not exceed 3,000 words including figures and tables, which
count for 250 words each. Submissions exceeding these limits might be
rejected without refereeing. Articles deemed within the theme and scope
will be peer-reviewed and are subject to editing for magazine style,
clarity, organization, and space. We reserve the right to edit the title of
all submissions. Be sure to include the name of the theme for which you’re
submitting.
Articles should have a practical orientation and be written in a style
accessible to practitioners. Overly complex, purely research-oriented or
theoretical treatments aren’t appropriate. Articles should be novel. IEEE
Software doesn’t republish material published previously in other venues,
including other periodicals and formal conference or workshop proceedings,
whether previous publication was in print or electronic form.

For general author guidelines: http://www.computer.org/software/author.htm
For submission details: software at computer.org
To submit an article: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/sw-cs
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