etrainer [at] uci [dot] edu

I am a PhD candidate at the University of California, Irvine in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences with a concentration in the field of Informatics. I also graduated with a B.S. in Information and Computer Science from UCI in 2005.

My advisor is David Redmiles and I am a member of the CRADL research group.

My research interests include software tools and visualizations of collaborative activity to support awareness and engender trust in distributed software teams. My dissertation committee is comprised of Professors David Redmiles, Andre van der Hoek, and James Jones.

Theseus

The contribution of my dissertation work is Theseus, a tool which allows remote software developers to explore the connections they share in common with other remote collaborators and as a result, increase the speed at which trust can be built. Trust can be defined as the belief one has about the positive expectations of others. Within this perspective, *affective* trust can be defined as expectations about people's care and concerns--the extra effort people spend to make sure work gets done. People do human-intensive work to calibrate their expectations of their colleagues, especially as a new project begins, such as traversing personal networks for referrals and getting "up to speed" from their contacts. Traversing these networks can be seen as a dialogue and discovery of shared experiences. By visualizing collaborative traces of developers's availability (including their responsiveness and accessibility) and their benevolence (including who fixes whose bugs), Theseus can help developers set expectations for their colleagues when a new project begins.

Theseus is currently in a prototype phase.

Ariadne

Previously, I worked with David Redmiles and Cleidson de Souza on the Ariadne project, a Java-based plug-in to the Eclipse IDE that visualizes the social networks derived from distributed software projects.

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I just received a 2008 IBM Jazz Innovation Award for work on Ariadne.

My research team received a grant from the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) in 2004, as well as an Eclipse Innovation Grant in 2005 for our work on Ariadne. For the latter grant, I presented Ariadne with my colleague Stephen Quirk at the Eclipse Technology Exchange (ETX) workshop at the OOPSLA conference in October of 2005.

In spring 2008 and spring 2009, I was a Teacher's Assistant for In4matx 143: Information Visualization.

Consortiums

• Trainer, E. "Connecting the Social and Technical Aspects of Computing with Visualization," In Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human Centric Computing, IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, 2008, pp. 272-273.

Workshop Papers

• Trainer, E., Al-Ani, B., and Redmiles, D.F. "Impact of Collaborative Traces on Trustworthiness",In Proceedings of the 2011 International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE), held in conjunction with The 2011 International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), ACM, New York, NY, in press.


• Trainer, E. and Redmiles, D.F., Towards an Infrastructure for Software Visualization Research," In First International Workshop on Infrastructure for Research in Collaborative Software Engineering (IReCoSE), held in conjunction with The 16th International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), ACM, New York, available at http://home.segal.uvic.ca/~IRCoSE-2008/.


• Al-Ani, B., Trainer, E., Ripley, R., Sarma, A., van der Hoek, A., Redmiles, D.F., "Continuous Coordination within the Context of Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering," In Proceedings of the 2008 International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE), held in conjunction with The 2008 International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), ACM, New York, NY, pp. 1-4.


• Trainer, E., Quirk, S., de Souza, C. R. B., Redmiles, D.F., "Bridging the Gap between Technical and Social Dependencies with Ariadne," In Proceedings of the 2005 OOPSLA Workshop on Eclipse Technology Exchange, ACM, New York, pp. 26-30.


• de Souza, C.R.B., Dourish, P., Redmiles, D.F., Quirk, S., and Trainer, E., "From Technical Dependencies to Social Dependencies," In Proceedings of the 2004 Workshop on Social Networks, held in conjunction with The 2004 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), available at http://www.ischool.washington.edu/mcdonald/cscw04/

Journals

• Al-Ani, B., Redmiles, D., van der Hoek, A., Alvim, M., da Silva, I., Mangano, N., Trainer, E., Sarma, A., "Continuous Coordination within Software Engineering Teams: Concepts and Tool Support," In Journal of Computer Science and Engineering in Arabic, Special Issue on Software Engineering, V. x, 2008, pp. x-x.


• Redmiles, D., van der Hoek, A., Al-Ani, B., Hildenbrand, T., Quirk, S., Sarma, A., Silveira Silva Filho, R., de Souza, C., Trainer, E., "Continuous Coordination: A New Paradigm to Support Globally Distributed Software Development Projects", Wirtschaftsinformatik, Special Issue on the Industrialization of Software Development, V. 49, 2007, pp. 28-38.

Book Chapters

• A. Sarma, B. Al-Ani, E. Trainer, R. S. Silva Filho, I. da Silva, D. Redmiles, A. van der Hoek. Continuous Coordination Tools and their Evaluation. Collaborative Software Engineering, ch. 14. (Springer, Heidelberg, 2009) (in press).

Conference Proceedings

• Trainer, E., Quirk, S., de Souza, C.R.B., and Redmiles, D.F., "Analyzing a Socio-Technical Visualization Tool Using Usability Inspection Methods," In Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human Centric Computing, IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, 2008, pp. 78-81.


• de Souza, C.R.B., Quirk, S., Trainer, E., and Redmiles, D.F., "Supporting Collaborative Software Development through the Visualization of Socio-Technical Dependencies", In Proceedings of the 2007 International ACM Conference on Supporting Group Work, ACM, New York, NY, 2007, pp. 147-156.