Special Issue on Emotions and People-Oriented Programming

摘要

...Even if a design is elegant and functional, it will not have a place in our lives unless it can appeal at a deeper level, to our emotions. -Hartmut Esslinger (Sweet, 1999, p. 9). There is a growing appreciation in software engineering research and practice that traditional software development and programming paradigms do not adequately consider social objectives (Baxter & Sommerville, 2010; Rahwan, Juan, & Sterling, 2006; Walenstein, 2003). For example, Baxter and Sommerville note the lack of modelling approaches that consider socio-technical considerations: Modelling and abstraction is fundamental to software engineering, with models of different types being used by engineers to communicate. The practical use of socio-technical approaches has to acknowledge this by providing a means of modelling, and by integrating with existing approaches. [...] The abstractions currently used in technical system modelling (e.g., use-cases, objects, etc.) do not seem to us to be sufficient to represent socio-technical considerations. -Baxter and Sommerville (2010).