Publications
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2024
Predicting Code Comprehension: A Novel Approach to Align Human Gaze with Code using Deep Neural Networks
FSE 2024. Tarek Alakmeh, David Reich, Lena Jäger, Thomas Fritz
Examining the Use of VR as a Study Aid for University Students with ADHD
CHI 2024. Isabelle Cuber, Juliana Souza, Irene Jacobs, Caroline Lowman, David Shepherd, Thomas Fritz, and Joshua M. Langberg
Supporting Web-based API Searches in the IDE Using Signatures
ICSE 2024. N. Bradley, T. Fritz, R. Holmes.
Feeling Stressed and Unproductive? A Field Evaluation of a Therapy-Inspired Digital Intervention for Knowledge Workers
CHI 2024. K. Chow, T. Fritz, L. Holsti, S. Barbic, J. McGrenere.
On the Helpfulness of Answering Developer Questions on Discord with Similar Conversations and Posts from the Past
ICSE 2024. Alexander Lill, André N. Meyer, Thomas Fritz.
2023
Ready Worker One? High-Res VR for the Home Office
VRST 2023. Anastasia Ruvimova, Felipe Fronchetti, Boden Kahn, Luiz Susin, Zekeya Hurley, Thomas Fritz, Mark Hancock, David C. Shepherd.
Cultivating a Team Mindset about Productivity with a Nudge: A Field Study in Hybrid Development Teams
CSCW 2023. Thomas Fritz, Alexander Lill, André N. Meyer, Gail C. Murphy, Lauren Howe.
Semi-Automatic, Inline and Collaborative Web Page Code Curations
ICSE 2023. Roy Rutishauser, André N. Meyer, Reid Holmes, Thomas Fritz.
2022
Sources of software development task friction
EMSE 2022. Nick Bradley, Thomas Fritz, Reid Holmes.
An Exploratory Study of Productivity Perceptions in Software Teams
ICSE 2022. Anastasia Ruvimova, Alexander Lill, Jan Gugler, Lauren Howe, Elaine Huang, Gail Murphy, Thomas Fritz.
2021
Enabling Good Work Habits in Software Developers through Reflective Goal-Setting
TSE 2021. André Meyer, Gail Murphy, Thomas Zimmermann, Thomas Fritz.
Observing and predicting knowledge worker stress, focus and awakeness in the wild
IJHCS 2021. M. Soto, C. Satterfield, T. Fritz, G. C. Murphy, D. C. Shepherd and N. Kraft.
2020
“Transport Me Away”: Fostering Flow in Open Offices through Virtual Reality
CHI 2020. Anastasia Ruvimova, Junhyeok Kim, Thomas Fritz, Mark Hancock, David C. Shepherd.
Identifying and Describing Information Seeking Tasks
ASE'20. C. Satterfield, T. Fritz, G. C. Murphy.
Biometric Measurement in Software Engineering
Contemporary Empirical Methods in Software Engineering. F. Fagerholm, T. Fritz.
Detecting Developers’ Task Switches and Types
TSE’20. André Meyer, Chris Satterfield, Manuela Züger, Katja Kevic, Gail Murphy, Thomas Zimmermann, and Thomas Fritz.
Supporting Software Developers’ Focused Work on Window-Based Desktops
CHI'20. J. Pilzer, R. Rosenast, A. N. Meyer, E. M. Huang, T. Fritz.
Is Your Time Well Spent? Reflecting on Knowledge Work More Holistically
CHI 2020. H. Guillou, K. Chow, T. Fritz, J. McGrenere.
2019
Dissertation Fostering Software Developer Productivity through Awareness Increase and Goal-Setting.
Dissertation. André Meyer.
Today was a Good Day: The Daily Life of Software Developers
TSE'19. André Meyer, Earl Barr, Christian Bird. Thomas Zimmermann.
Reducing Interruptions at Work with FlowLight
Book Chapter. M. Züger, A. Meyer, T. Fritz, and D. Shepherd.
Fitbit for Developers: Self-Monitoring at Work
Book Chapter. A. Meyer, T. Fritz, and T. Zimmermann.
Developers’ Diverging Perceptions of Productivity
Book Chapter. A. Meyer, G. C. Murphy, T. Fritz, and T. Zimmermann.
The Sound of Software Development: Music Listening Among Software Engineers
IEEE Software 2019. L. E. Barton, G. Candan, T. Fritz, T. Zimmermann, and G. C. Murphy.
2018
Sensing Interruptibility in the Office: A Field Study on the Use of Biometric and Computer Interaction Sensors
CHI 2018 (Honorable Mention). M. Züger, S. Müller, A. N. Meyer, T. Fritz.
Context-Aware Conversational Developer Assistants
ICSE 2018. N. Bradley, T. Fritz and R. Holmes.
2017
Design Recommendations for Self-Monitoring in the Workplace: Studies in Software Development
CSCW 2017. A. N. Meyer, G. C. Murphy, T. Zimmermann, T. Fritz.
Characterizing Software Developers by Perceptions of Productivity
ESEM 2017. A. N. Meyer, T. Zimmermann, T. Fritz.
Reducing Interruptions at Work: A Large-Scale Field Study of FlowLight
CHI 2017. M. Züger, C. Corley, A. N. Meyer, B. Li, T. Fritz, D. C. Shepherd, P. Francis, N. Kraft, and W. Snipes
The Work Life of Developers: Activities, Switches and Perceived Productivity
TSE 2017. A. N. Meyer, L. E. Barton, G. C. Murphy, T. Zimmermann, and T. Fritz.
2016
Leaders of Tomorrow on the Future of Software Engineering: A Roundtable
IEEE 2016. F. Hermans, J. Siegmund, T. Fritz, G. Bavota, M. Nagappan, A. Hindle, Y. Kamei, A. Mesbah, B. Adams.
Eye Gaze and Interaction Contexts for Change Tasks – Observations and Potential
JSS 2016. Katja Kevic, Braden M Walters, Timothy R Shaffer, Bonita Sharif, David C Shepherd, Thomas Fritz.
Leveraging Biometric Data to Boost Software Developer Productivity
SANER 2016. Thomas Fritz, Sebastian Müller.
2015
iTrace: Enabling Eye Tracking on Software Artifacts within the IDE to Support Software Engineering Tasks
FSE'15. Timothy R. Shaffer, Jenna L. Wise, Braden M. Walters, Sebastian C. Müller, Michael Falcone, Bonita Sharif
A Practical Guide to Analyzing IDE Usage Data
Book Chapter. W. Snipes, E. Murphy-Hill, T. Fritz, M. VAkilian, K. DAmevski, A. R. Nair, D. Shepherd.
Tracing Software Developers’ Eyes and Interactions for Change Tasks
FSE'15. Katja Kevic, Braden M. Walters, Timothy R. Shaffer, Bonita Sharif, David C. Shepherd, Thomas Fritz.
The Making of Cloud Applications – An Empirical Study on Software Development for the Cloud
ESEC/FSE 2015. Jürgen Cito, Philipp Leitner, Thomas Fritz, Harald Gall.
Stuck and Frustrated or In Flow and Happy: Sensing Developers’ Emotions and Progress
ICSE 2015. Sebastian C Müller, Thomas Fritz
Interruptibility of Software Developers and its Prediction Using Psycho-Physiological Sensors
CHI 2015. Manuela Züger, Thomas Fritz.
A Field Study on Fostering Structural Navigation
ICSE SEIP 2015. Vinay Augustine, Patrick Francis, Xiao Qu, David Shepherd, Will Snipes, Christoph Braunlich.
2014
Developers’ Code Context Models for Change Tasks
FSE'14. Thomas Fritz, David C. Shepherd, Katja Kevic, Will Snipes, Christoph Bräunlich.
Software Developers’ Perceptions of Productivity
FSE'14. A. N. Meyer, T. Fritz, G. C. Murphy, T. Zimmermann.
CoMoGen: An Approach to Locate Relevant Task Context by Combining Search and Navigation
ICSME 2014. K. Kevic, T. Fritz, D. C. Shepherd.
CloudWave: Where Adaptive Cloud Management Meets DevOps
MoCS 2014. D. Bruneo, T. Fritz, S. Keidar-Barner, P. Leitner, F. Longo, C. Marquezan, A. Metzger, K. Pohl, A. Puliafito, D. Raz, A. Roth, E. Salant, I. Segall, M. Villari, Y. Wolfsthal, C. Woods.
Using Psycho-Physiological Measures to Assess Task Difficulty in Software Development
ICSE 2014. T. Fritz, A. Begel, S. Müller, S. Yigitt-Elliott, M. Züger.
Bug Reproduction: A Collaborative Practice within Software Maintenance Activities
COOP 2014. D. Vyas, T. Fritz, D. Shepherd.
Persuasive Technology in the Real World: A Study of Long-Term Use of Activity Sensing Devices for Fitness
CHI 2014. T. Fritz, E. M. Huang, G. C. Murphy, T. Zimmermann.
Collecting and processing interaction data for recommendation systems
Recommendation Systems in Software Engineering. W. Maalej, T. Fritz, R. Robbes.
2013
Stakeholders’ Information Needs for Artifacts and their Dependencies in a Real World Context
ICSM 2013. S. Müller, T. Fritz (Nominated for Best Paper Award)
Collaborative Bug Triaging using Textual Similarities and Change Set Analysis
CHASE 2013. K. Kevic, S. Müller, T. Fritz, H. C. Gall.
Degree-of-Knowledge: Modeling a Developer’s Knowledge of Code
TOSEM 2013. Fritz, Murphy, Murphy-Hill, Ou, Hill.
2012
Sando: An Extensible Local Code Search Framework
FSE 2012. David Shepherd, Kostadin Damevski, Bartosz Ropski, Thomas Fritz.
An Approach for Collaborative Code Reviews Using Multi-Touch Technology
ICSE 2012. Sebastian Müller, Michael Würsch, Thomas Fritz, Harald C. Gall.
2011
Using Rational Team Concert for a software engineering class project
developerWorks, IBM 2011. T. Fritz, M. Allen.
Developer-Centric Models: Easing Access to Relevant Information in a Software Development Environment
Dissertation. Thomas Fritz.
Determining Relevancy: How Software Developers Determine Relevant Information in Feeds
CHI 2011. Thomas Fritz, Gail C. Murphy.
2010
Using Information Fragments to Answer the Questions Developers Ask
ICSE 2010. Thomas Fritz, Gail C. Murphy.
A Degree-of-Knowledge Model to Capture Source Code Familiarity
ICSE 2010. Thomas Fritz, Jingwen Ou, Gail C. Murphy, Emerson Murphy-Hill.
Staying Aware of Relevant Feeds in Context
ACM SRC @ ICSE 2010 (3rd place). Thomas Fritz.
2009
Search, stitch, view: Easing information integration in an IDE
ICSE 2009. Thomas Fritz, Gail Murphy.
2008
How can diagramming tools help support programming activities?
VL/HCC 2008. Seonah Lee, Gail C. Murphy, Thomas Fritz, Meghan Allen.
2007
Does a programmer’s activity indicate knowledge of code?
ESEC/FSE 2007. Thomas Fritz, Gail C. Murphy, Emily Hill.
2006
A reflexive Extension to Arachne’s Aspect Language.
ODAL Workshop at AOSD 2006. Nicolas Loriant, Marc Ségura-Devillechaise, Thomas Fritz, Jean-Marc Menaud.
Dynamic adaptation of the squid Web cache with Arachne
IEEE Software 2006. Marc Ségura-Devillechaise, Jean-Marc Menaud, Nicolas Loriant, Rémi Douence, Mario Südholt, Thomas Fritz, Egon Wuchner.
2005
An application of dynamic AOP to medical image generation
Dynamic Aspect Workshop at AOSD 2005. Thomas Fritz, Marc Ségura, Mario Südholt, Egon Wuchner, Jean-marc Menaud.
An Expressive Aspect Language for System Applications With Arachne
AOSD 2005. Rémi Douence, Thomas Fritz, Nicolas Loriant, Jean-Marc Menaud, Marc Ségura-Devillechaise, Mario Südholt.
Using Domain Driven Development for Monitoring Distributed Systems
ECMDA-FA 2005. Rainer Burgstaller, Egon Wuchner, Ludger Fiege, Michael Becker, Thomas Fritz.
Automating Adaptive Image Generation for Medical Devices Using AOP
ETFA 2005. Thomas Fritz, Marc Segura, Mario Stidholt, Egon Wuchner, Jean-Marc Menaud.
2003
Refactoring to aspects: an interactive approach
OOPSLA workshop on eclipse technology eXchange 2003. Jan Hannemann, Thomas Fritz, Gail C. Murphy.