Norman Peitek

Postdoc researching program comprehension with fMRI, EEG, and eye tracking @SIC_Saar / @Saar_Uni & @LIN_Magdeburg 🧠

[Norman Peitek @peitek]

Late to the party, but: [email protected]

[Eye Movements in Programming 👀 @emipws]

EMIP 2023 will be co-located with @ETRA_conference
in Tübingen, Germany. The workshop will be hybrid.

We just published the call for papers: https://t.co/vEcBP6A877

We invite several types of contributions (new research results, new ideas, demos, work-in-progress).

[Norman Peitek @peitek]

@GraphicsRunner I agree, that would be really interesting. It's just tough to properly design a study around it, since dependencies bring in a lot of potential confounding factors.

[Norman Peitek @peitek]

Despite similar education and background, programmers can exhibit vast differences in their abilities!

In our latest study, we dug deeper into the topic! I'll :
1) explore programmers' brains and eyes, and
2) undermine conventional programming experience measures...

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[Norman Peitek @peitek]

@GraphicsRunner Thank you for participating! 😀

[Norman Peitek @peitek]

@neilccbrown Yep, that's certainly true!

On the other hand, that also seems to be one main demographic for many studies in our field :)

[Norman Peitek @peitek]

If this quick overview was interesting, read the full paper for more details and an in-depth discussion. The preprint is already available: https://t.co/8F2X0Pj20O

Our replication package is here: https://t.co/arNT6JbAqg

If you have questions or comments, let me know!

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[Norman Peitek @peitek]

The paper reporting on this study was accepted at ESEC/FSE 2022 (@FSEconf) 🎉

Thank you for all the collaborators: @AnnabelleBergum, Maurice Rekrut, @JonasMucke, Matthias Nadig, @chrisparnin, @JanetSiegmund, and @SvenApel! 🙏

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[Norman Peitek @peitek]

@shbonita @JanetSiegmund Thank you :)

[Norman Peitek @peitek]

In line with my research, I should have monitored my brain 🧠 during my thesis defense, but I wasn't allowed to bring the fMRI scanner home.

But, I tracked my heart rate throughout the day. It was not as high as I expected, but still concerning for just sitting in a chair 😅