April 2012 - My team's full paper, "Distributed Development Teams and Non-Use of the Web 2.0 Technologies: A Proclivity Framework," was accepted at the
2012 International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE) in Porto Alegre, Brazil!
March 2012 - Our team's paper, "Attitude and Usage of Collaboration Tools in GSE: A Practitioner Oriented Theory," was accepted at the
CHASE Workshop for ICSE 2012.
February 2012 - My paper, "Foundations for the Design of Visualizations that Support Trust in Distributed Teams," was accepted for publication at the
2012 ACM Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI)!
February 2012 - I am designing an experiment to evaluate Theseus, a software proof-of-concept, which is the subject of my dissertation.
January 2012 - I am planning to finish my dissertation by June of this year!
January 2012 - My research group submitted a
NSF VOSS proposal on the topic of global software engineers' attitudes toward and usage of web 2.0 technologies.
December 2011 - I submitted a full paper to the
Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI) conference.November 2011 - I passed my topic defense!
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 UC Irvine in
2005.
My advisor is David
Redmiles and I am a member of the CRADL research group.
Broadly, I am interested in the following areas: computer-supported cooperative work, visual interface design, awareness, and globally distributed software engineering. In particular, I am interested in visualizations of collaborative activity to support awareness and engender trust in distributed software teams. My dissertation committee is comprised of Professors
David Redmiles,
André van der Hoek, and
James Jones.
Theseus
The hypothesis of my dissertation is: a software tool can usefully provide information that engenders affective trustworthiness among distributed team members. The contribution of my dissertation work is therefore a proof-of-concept software tool, Theseus (Fig. 1).
Figure 1 - Theseus supports the development of trust by showing key information about distributed developers.
Existing literature on trust has shown that swift trust, trust that is pre-supposed at the beginning of new collaborations, can lead to productive and innovative results but is fragile and easily broken. For example, without the knowledge that a distributed collaborator is involved in multiple projects and located several time zones away, a team member may unfairly assume the former is not responsive enough and consequently distrust them from that point forward. To help overcome the lack of this knowledge, this research aims to show that, in contrast to traditional views of trust requiring physical interaction or a priori assumptions, trust can, in fact, be engendered through the use of interfaces that expose information about others acquired from software artifacts. This shifts how we view the development of trust in its early stages from a focus on presumptions about others to a focus on consumption of information about others through visual interfaces.
Theseus is currently in a prototype phase.
Ariadne
Previously, I worked with Stephen Quirk and
Cleidson de
Souza on the
Ariadne (Fig. 2) project, a
Java-based plug-in to the
Eclipse
IDE that visualizes the social networks derived from source-code.
Figure 2 - Ariadne shows interdependencies between developers based on code they write.
In
spring 2008 and
spring 2009, I was a Teacher's Assistant for In4matx 143: Information Visualization.
