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TY - GEN
T1 - Dwelling in Software
T2 - Aspects of the Felt-Life of Engineers in Large Software Projects
AU - Harper, Richard
AU - Bird, Christian
AU - Zimmermann, Thomas
AU - Murphy, Brendan
A2 - Bertelsen, Olav W.
A2 - Ciolfi, Luigina
A2 - Grasso, Maria Antonietta
A2 - Papadopoulos, George Angelos
A2 - Bertelsen, O.
A2 - Ciolfi, L.
A2 - Grasso, M.
A2 - Papadopoulos, G.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - The organizational and social aspects of software engineering (SE) are now increasingly well investigated. This paper proposes that there are a number of approaches taken in research that can be distinguished not by their method or topic but by the different views they construct of the human agent acting in SE. These views have implications for the pragmatic outcome of the research, such as whether systems design suggestions are made, proposals for the development of practical reasoning tools or the effect of Social Network Systems on engineer’s sociability. This paper suggests that these studies tend to underemphasize the felt-life of engineers, a felt-life that is profoundly emotional though played in reference to ideas of moral propriety and ethics. This paper will present a study of this felt-life, suggesting it consists of a form of digital dwelling. The perspective this view affords are contrasted with process and ‘scientific’ approaches to the human agent in SE, and with the more humanistic studies of SE reasoning common in CSCW.
AB - The organizational and social aspects of software engineering (SE) are now increasingly well investigated. This paper proposes that there are a number of approaches taken in research that can be distinguished not by their method or topic but by the different views they construct of the human agent acting in SE. These views have implications for the pragmatic outcome of the research, such as whether systems design suggestions are made, proposals for the development of practical reasoning tools or the effect of Social Network Systems on engineer’s sociability. This paper suggests that these studies tend to underemphasize the felt-life of engineers, a felt-life that is profoundly emotional though played in reference to ideas of moral propriety and ethics. This paper will present a study of this felt-life, suggesting it consists of a form of digital dwelling. The perspective this view affords are contrasted with process and ‘scientific’ approaches to the human agent in SE, and with the more humanistic studies of SE reasoning common in CSCW.
U2 - 10.1007/978-1-4471-5346-7_9
DO - 10.1007/978-1-4471-5346-7_9
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
SN - 9781447153450
SP - 163
EP - 180
BT - ECSCW 2013: Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 21-25 September 2013, Paphos, Cyprus
PB - Springer
CY - London
ER -