Creating synergy between usability courses and open source software projects

Hepting, Daryl H.; Peng, Lijuan; Maciag, Timothy; Gerhard, David; Maguire, Brien

doi:10.1145/1383602.1383649

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“…An upsurge in the number of green consumers has increased the demand for green products which has allowed these businesses to thrive (Huang & Kung, 2011;Molina-Azorín, Claver-Cortés, López-Gamero, & Tarí, 2009 Environmental knowledge involves the information an individual has to determine and confirm the issues concerning the environment, which, in turn, gives the consumer the ability to transform such knowledge into an influential behavior. Environmental knowledge is the consumers' evaluation of, and reaction to, the process of consumption behavior and its effects on the environment as well as the demand for green products (Haryanto, 2014;Hepting, Peng, Maciag, Gerhard, & Maguire, 2008;Laroche & Bergeron, 2001). Environmental knowledge contributes to environmental attitude and environmental behavior (Kollmuss & Agyeman, 2002).…”

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Green consumption: Environmental knowledge, environmental consciousness, social norms, and purchasing behavior

2018

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The 2015 Paris Agreement is the first historical global accord aiming to palliate global warming. Climate change has caused ecological, economic, and social disasters, among other things and has made not only nations review their environmental protection issues but also the consumers paying more attention to the environment and encouraging green oriented buying behaviors. This study targets Taiwan's consumers, and 649 valid questionnaires were recovered. Exploratory factor analysis was applied to extract the trait factors, whereas confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling were used for the verification of the scale and structural model, respectively. The result shows that the consumers' environmental knowledge, environmental consciousness, and the social norms have had a positive effect on their environmental attitude, as do their environmental knowledge and the social norms to a sense of well‐being. Consumers purchasing intention and behavior are pointing towards green products. Therefore, companies need to respond to the consumers' demand and fulfill their social responsibility to release the green products so as to satisfy the consumers' needs.

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Green consumption: Environmental knowledge, environmental consciousness, social norms, and purchasing behavior

2018

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“…Several studies address how to identify or choose adequate projects by providing comments, directions or even a list of established criteria (Buchta, Petrenko, Poshyvanyk, & Rajlich, 2006;Ellis, Hislop, Chua, and Dziallas, 2011;Ellis, Morelli, de Lanerolle, Damon, & Raye, 2007;Gehringer, 2011;German, 2005;Hepting, Peng, Maciag, Gerhard, & Maguire, 2008;Jaccheri & ∅sterlie, 2007;Kamthan, 2007;Meneely, Williams, and Gehringer, 2008;Papadopoulos et al, 2012;Sowe & Stamelos, 2007;Sowe et al, 2006;Stroulia, Bauer, Craig, Reid, & Wilson, 2011;Toth, 2006). However, two studies are devoted only to the process of selecting OS projects.…”

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“…Elaborating on this facet, we uncovered that Hepting et al (2008) use a predefined project for their students, although, in the end, authors decided to allow students to select a project that better matches their interests in future editions of the course. In another example, although students could freely choose their projects, they appreciated the instructor's help on this task .…”

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“…From the studies that mention assessment, 57.6% applied both perspectives (26.4% from all selected papers). Reading the 72 studies, we detected six studies that apply Peer Review for grading (Budd, 2009;Hepting et al, 2008;Papadopoulos et al, 2012;Raj & Kazemian, 2006;Sabin, 2011), although this instrument is not mandatory in last paper. The study described by Sabin (2011) was the only selected study to report self-assessment, which was part of students' final grade.…”

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Open source projects in software engineering education: a mapping study

Nascimento

Bittencourt

Chávez

2015

Computer Science Education

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Context: It is common practice in academia to have students work with "toy" projects in software engineering (SE) courses. One way to make such courses more realistic and reduce the gap between academic courses and industry needs is getting students involved in open source projects (OSP) with faculty supervision. Objective: This study aims to summarize the literature on how OSP have been used to facilitate students' learning of SE. Method: A systematic mapping study was undertaken by identifying, filtering and classifying primary studies using a predefined strategy. Results: 72 papers were selected and classified. The main results were: (a) most studies focused on comprehensive SE courses, although some dealt with specific areas; (b) the most prevalent approach was the traditional project method; (c) studies' general goals were: learning SE concepts and principles by using OSP, learning open source software or both; (d) most studies tried out ideas in regular courses within the curriculum; (e) in general, students had to work with predefined projects; (f) there was a balance between approaches where instructors had either inside control or no control on the activities performed by students; (g) when learning was assessed, software artefacts, reports and presentations were the main instruments used by teachers, while surveys were widely used for students' self-assessment; (h) most studies were published in the last seven years. Conclusions: The resulting map gives an overview of the existing initiatives in this context and shows gaps where further research can be pursued.

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“…They have also been used to teach basic and advanced programming and software development concepts. These works have adopted varied approaches for project selection; allowing students to choose with or without guidance [30, 24,18]; selection by faculty from familiar projects [16,8,21,22], or popular ones such as Apache and Mozilla [4], JUnit [3], software studio [22], or pertaining to specific domains such as Web and Web 2.0 [34] or tools [5]; software written in graduate and upper division courses [17,11,10,20], and soliciting projects from academia and industry [32]. Meneeley et al [20] also faced disappointing results at Sourceforge when searching subject to similar criteria.…”

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Selecting open source software projects to teach software engineering

Smith

McCartney

Gokhale

et al. 2014

Proceedings of the 45th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

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Aspiring software engineers must be able to comprehend and evolve legacy code, which is challenging because the code may be poorly documented, ill structured, and lacking in human support. These challenges of understanding and evolving existing code can be illustrated in academic settings by leveraging the rich and varied volume of Open Source Software (OSS) code. To teach SE with OSS, however, it is necessary to select uniform projects of appropriate size and complexity. This paper reports on our search for suitable OSS projects to teach an introductory SE course with a focus on maintenance and evolution. The search turned out to be quite labor intensive and cumbersome, contrary to our expectations that it would be quick and simple. The chosen projects successfully demonstrated the maintenance challenges, highlighting the promise of using OSS. The burden of selecting projects, however, may impede widespread integration of OSS into SE and other computing courses.

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Creating synergy between usability courses and open source software projects

Cited by 12 publications

References 6 publications

Green consumption: Environmental knowledge, environmental consciousness, social norms, and purchasing behavior

Green consumption: Environmental knowledge, environmental consciousness, social norms, and purchasing behavior

Open source projects in software engineering education: a mapping study

Selecting open source software projects to teach software engineering

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