Human Aspects of Software Engineering Lab

About HASEL

The Human Aspects of Software Engineering Lab at the University of Auckland carries out research projects focused on improving software practices and processes. Our goal is to make it easier (and more fun!) for software teams to create user-friendly products. For example, we study ways to improve coordination on software teams, investigate novel techniques to help software developers understand what users want from the software, and study software developer work patterns. We employ a variety of both qualitative and quantitative research methods including developing new methods and tools, data mining, repository analysis, social network analysis, interviews, surveys, and lab experiments.

We are also interested in leveraging deep learning algorithms to build innovative software systems aiming to enable the disabled. Among these interests are enabling computers to understand individuals suffering from speech impairments to act as a communication medium on their behalf, improving and expediating the identification of autistic individuals, and other related assistive technologies that fall in similar scope.

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Dr Kelly Blincoe awarded Rutherford Discovery Fellowship

Dr Kelly Blincoe awarded Rutherford Discovery Fellowship

Dr Kelly Blincoe has been awarded a Royal Society Te Apārangi Rutherford Discovery Fellowship for her research programme titled 'Towards more inclusive software engineering practices and tools to retain women in software engineering'. These prestigious grants support...

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