Towards Supporting Emotion Awareness in Retrospective Meetings

Daniela Grassi; Filippo Lanubile; Nicole Novielli; Alexander Serebrenik

doi:10.1109/ICSE-NIER58687.2023.00024

Towards Supporting Emotion Awareness in Retrospective Meetings

Daniela Grassi, Filippo Lanubile, Nicole Novielli, Alexander Serebrenik

Software Engineering and Technology

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Abstract

Emotion awareness is a key antecedent to team effectiveness and the use of biometrics can help software developers in gaining awareness of emotions at the individual and team level. In this paper, we propose an approach to include emotional feedback in agile retrospective meetings as a proxy to identify developers’ feelings in association with the activity performed by the team. As a proof of concept, we developed an emotion visualization tool that provides an integrated visualization of self-reported emotions, activities, and biometrics. We run a pilot study to evaluate our approach with the agile retrospective meetings of a software engineering capstone project. The preliminary findings suggest that integrated emotion visualization can be useful to inform discussion and reflection around the potential causes of unhappiness, thus triggering actionable insights that could enhance team productivity and improve collaboration.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering: New Ideas and Emerging Results
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Pages	101-105
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	979-8-3503-0039-0
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE-NIER58687.2023.00024
Publication status	Published - 12 Jul 2023
Event	IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering: New Ideas and Emerging Results - Melbourne, Australia Duration: 14 May 2023 → 20 May 2023 Conference number: 45 https://conf.researchr.org/home/icse-2023

Conference

Conference	IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering
Abbreviated title	ICSE-NIER
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Melbourne
Period	14/05/23 → 20/05/23
Internet address	https://conf.researchr.org/home/icse-2023

Funding

ACKNOWLEDGMENT The research of Daniela Grassi is partially funded by D.M. 352/2022, Next Generation EU - PNRR, in the scope of the project ”Recognition of emotions of cognitive workers using non-invasive biometric sensors”, co-supported by Exprivia, CUP H91I22000410007.

Keywords

emotion awareness
agile teams
retrospective meetings
biometric sensors
visualization
Emotion awareness

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Grassi, D, Lanubile, F, Novielli, N & Serebrenik, A 2023, Towards Supporting Emotion Awareness in Retrospective Meetings. in IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering: New Ideas and Emerging Results. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, pp. 101-105, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering, Melbourne, Australia, 14/05/23. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE-NIER58687.2023.00024

Towards Supporting Emotion Awareness in Retrospective Meetings. / Grassi, Daniela; Lanubile, Filippo; Novielli, Nicole et al.
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering: New Ideas and Emerging Results. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2023. p. 101-105.

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