Third International Workshop on Human Factors in Modeling (HuFaMo’18)

Overview

What it is all about.

Modeling is a genuinely human enterprise, so many of the questions related to modeling can only be answered by empirical studies of human factors. The HuFaMo workshop series is the venue for early stage empirical research involving human factors in modeling. Our goal is to improve the state of the science and professionalism in empirical research in the Model Based Engineering community. Typical examples of such questions might consider the usability of a certain approach such as a method or language, or the emotional states or personal judgements of modelers.

We invite submissions regarding empirical studies of the following aspects.

Emotion and preference of users in the face of modeling related tools and activities

Stress, load, and performance involving modeling activities and artifacts

Communicative and cognitive strategies and styles connected to modeling activities

Training and testing of modeling, modeling tools, and related practices

Capabilities and competencies

Team and group behavior, including behavior across (social) media

Other topics that fit into the general frame of this workshop are also welcome.

Program

A day full of fun!

09:00-10:30 Opening
Keynote / Invited speaker Blazho Nastov GenMyModel R&D manager
"Requests within the customer service of GenMyModel: the place of human factors."
Discussions and open announcements/demos

11:00-12:30 Support for modeling
Using sketch recognition for capturing developer’s mental models
Emmanuel Renaux, Tatiana De-Wyse, José Mennesson
ModelByVoice - towards a general purpose model editor for blind people
João Lopes, Joao Cambeiro, Vasco Amaral
Discussions and open announcements/demos

14:00-15:30 Experimenting for comparing
Comparing the comprehensibility of numeric versus symbolic contribution labels in goal models: an experimental design
Sotirios Liaskos, Wisal Tambosi
Comparing the Developer Experience with two Multi-Agents Systems DSLs: SEA_ML++ and DSML4MAS - Study Design
João Silva, Ankica Barisic, Vasco Amaral, Miguel Goulão, Baris Tekin Tezel, Ömer Faruk Alaca, Moharram Challenger, Geylani Kardas
Discussions about the replication of the experiment from the Silva’s paper

16:00-17:30 Working on modeling languages
Visual Inheritance for Designing Visual Notation Based on a Metamodel
Nungki Selviandro, Tim Kelly, Richard Hawkins
Modeling and Analyzing Information Flow in Development Teams as a Pipe System
Jil Klünder, Oliver Karras, Nils Prenner, Schneider
Discussions and open announcements/demos

Discussions in HuFaMo

You talkin' to me?

You want to talk about something you’re working on? Tool, experiment…

There is a way for that in HuFaMo, participate to Discussions and open announcements and demos interludes.

HuFaMo's program includes one invited talk and 6 presentations of research work, all related to human factors in modelling. These 7 presentations will be divided into 4 sessions of 1 hour and 30 minutes. To avoid the "head stuffing" effect, we wish to leave a significant part to the discussions in each sessions (1 hour of presentation/questions, 30 minutes of discussions).

In order to have enriching discussions and allow the HuFaMo community to grow, we plan to allow participants to come and present (or simply discuss)

work in progress in their team,
tools they have developed (or started to develop),
or simply tools, initiatives or work they have seen elsewhere and want to share with other participants.

There is no need to send a summary for this, all you have to do is to send us an email and to indicate in one sentence what you want to talk about. You can use slides or not, and make a demo (or not). The format is completely open.

Please just send us an email!

Submission Types

Put your shoulder to the wheel!

We solicit four types of submissions, each with their specific quality and review criteria.

1. Empirical Study

of human factors in modeling, including replication studies and negative results. We strongly encourage authors to submit raw data and analysis scripts.

2. Study Designs

investigating human factors in modeling. These contributions will be evaluated based on the quality of the study design alone, i.e., whether the reviewers deem them promising to obtain meaningful, valid, and interesting results. No actual study results are expected.

3. Theory Papers

contributing to, or develop, a theory of some aspect of human factors relevant in modeling. No empirical validation is required, but a thorough analysis of the existing work from all relevant elds (including e.g., psychology, sociology, philosophy and more as appropriate) is expected.

4. Tool Papers

that present any software developed to support experiments related to human factors in modeling. We intend here to promote tools that can speed up the software implementation of an experiment. We typically seek for libraries, frameworks, API... that gather data about human actions and/or interactions between humans and electronic devices.

All of these should have between 6 and 8 pages in length, including references, appendices, and figures. All submissions should clearly state in their title, to which of the above category they belong. All accepted submissions will be discussed in the workshop. Publication requires at least one of the authors to be present at the workshop. We particularly encourage researchers that need to design a study but lack experience in this field to come forward and present study designs so these may be discussed and improved, leading to better quality research.

Submissions must conform to the MODELS'18 formatting guidelines.

All submissions must be uploaded through EasyChair.

Works

Batman would be jealous.

Design & Conduct your Experiment

A Controlled Experiment Template for Evaluating the Understandability of Model Transformation Languages

HuFaMo'16

Max E. Kramer
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
max.e.kramer@kit.edu

Georg Hinkel
FZI – Research Center for Information Technology
hinkel@fzi.de

Heiko Klare
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
heiko.klare@kit.edu

Michael Langhammer
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
langhammer@kit.edu

Erik Burger
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
burger@kit.edu

Next Generation Software Design Tools

A Vision on a New Generation of Software Design Environments

HuFaMo'15

Michel R.V. Chaudron

Rodi Jolak
Joint Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Chalmers University of Technology and Gothenburg University
Gothenburg, Sweden
{chaudron, jolak}@chalmers.se

First International Workshop on Human Factors in Modeling

Proceedings preface

Introduction

Modeling is a human-intensive enterprise. As such, many research questions related to modeling can only be answered by empirical studies employing human factors. The Inter- national Workshop Series on Human Factors in Modeling (HuFaMo) is dedicated to the discussion of empirical research involving human factors in modeling. Our goal is to improve the state of the science and professionalism in empirical research in the Model Based Engineering community. Typical examples of research questions might consider the usability of a certain approach, such as a method or language, or the emotional states or personal judgements of modelers. While concerned with foundations and framework support for modeling, the community has been somehow neglecting the issue of human factors in this context. There is a growing need from the community concerned with quality factors to understand the best practices and systematic approaches to assert usability in modeling and confirm the claims of productivity. This workshop creates a space for discussion being a get together of both MDE, Usability, Human Interfaces and the Experimental Software engineering community. HuFaMo expressly focuses on human factors, in order to raise the awareness for these topics and the associated research methods and questions in the modeling community, providing an outlet for research of this type, guaranteeing high quality reviews by people that apply these research methods themselves. Along with fully complete empirical evaluations, the workshop organizers explicitly encouraged researchers new to empirical methods to discuss study designs before conduct- ing their empirical evaluations. The rationale was to create a constructive environment where the HuFaMo participants could contribute to improving the proposed study designs so that stronger (and more easily replicable) empirical designs and results can be obtained. Ultimately, we aim to congregate a community of researchers and practitioners that promotes (possibly independently replicated) empirical assessments on claims related to human factors in modeling.

HuFaMo'15

Harald Störrle
DTU Compute Technical University of Denmark Lyngby, Denmark
hsto@dtu.dk

Michel R. V. Chaudron
Chalmers University of Technology and Gothenburg University Gothenburg, Sweden
chaudron@chalmers.se

Vasco Amaral and Miguel Goulão
NOVA LINCS, DI, FCT Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
vma@fct.unl.pt, mgoul@fct.unl.pt

Overview

Program

Discussions in HuFaMo

Invited talk