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Slides for Towards the Assessment of Stress and Emotional Responses of a Salutogenesis-Enhanced Software Tool Using Psychophysiological Measurements
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posted on 2017-05-22, 01:21 authored by Jan-Peter Ostberg, Daniel GraziotinDaniel Graziotin, Stefan WagnerStefan Wagner, Birgit DerntlSemotion'17 slides for "Towards the Assessment of Stress and Emotional Responses of a Salutogenesis-Enhanced Software Tool Using Psychophysiological Measurements"
Abstract--Software development is intellectual, based on collaboration, and performed in a highly demanding economic
market. As such, it is dominated by time pressure, stress,
and emotional trauma. While studies of affect are emerging in
software engineering research, stress has yet to find its place in
the literature despite that it is highly related to affect. In this
paper, we study stress coping with the affect-laden framework
of Salutogenesis, which is a validated psychological framework
for enhancing mental health through a feeling of coherence.
We propose a controlled experiment for testing our hypotheses
that a static analysis tool enhanced with the Salutogenesis
model will bring 1) a higher number of fixed quality issues,
2) reduced cognitive load, 3) reduction of the overall stress, and
4) positive affect induction effects to developers. The experiment
will make use of validated physiological measurements of stress
as proxied by cortisol and alpha-amylase levels in saliva samples, a psychometrically validated measurement of mood and
affect disposition, and stress inductors such as a cognitive load
task. Our hypotheses, if empirically supported, will lead to the
creation of environments, methods, and tools that alleviate stress
among developers while enhancing affect on the job and task
performance.