Software Engineering and Human-Computer Interaction

Overview

The Software Engineering and Human-Computer Interaction group is a multi-perspective group focusing on a single problem: how to help people develop software that is effective and accurate. The people we are trying to help range from professional programmers to end users who use special-purpose tools to create their own software.

The approaches we use in conducting this research range from automated behind-the-scenes reasoning about the software being created, to human-computer-interaction methods for targeting software tools to the needs of the human programmers using it, to formal methods of reasoning precisely about the properties of software being developed, to language design to create the right kind of language for the kind of task the software is trying to address.

Our work is collaborative, spanning across department boundaries and beyond, with collaborators at IBM, Microsoft, and numerous other industrial and university researchers involved. In some of our research thrusts, such as end-user software engineering, we are regarded as international leaders.

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Sub Areas

End-User Software Engineering
Programming Tools, Environments, and Analysis
Human Factors in Software Engineering
Software Maintenance and Evolution

Related Courses

CS 519: Special topics
CS 561: Software engineering
CS 562: Applied software engineering
CS 569: Special topics in software engineering
CS 581: Programming languages
CS 582: Object-oriented analysis and programming
CS 583: Functional programming
CS 584: Human factors of programming languages
CS 589: Special topics in programming languages

Faculty

Julie A. Adams

Professor
College of Engineering Dean's Professor

julie.a.adams@oregonstate.edu

Collaborative Robotics and Intelligent Systems Institute | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Artificial Intelligence and Robotics | Software Engineering and Human-Computer Interaction

Margaret Burnett

Distinguished Professor

burnett@oregonstate.edu

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Software Engineering and Human-Computer Interaction | Computer Science Education

Raffaele De Amicis

Associate Professor

raffaele.deamicis@oregonstate.edu

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Software Engineering and Human-Computer Interaction | Computer Graphics and Visualization

Christopher Hundhausen

Professor | Associate Head for Online Education

chris.hundhausen@oregonstate.edu

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Software Engineering and Human-Computer Interaction | Computer Science Education

Heather Knight

Assistant Professor

heather.knight@oregonstate.edu

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Artificial Intelligence and Robotics | Software Engineering and Human-Computer Interaction

Anita Sarma

Professor | Associate Head for Research

anita.sarma@oregonstate.edu

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Software Engineering and Human-Computer Interaction

Affiliated Faculty

Glencora Borradaile

Associate Dean of Graduate Programs
Interim Associate Dean for Faculty and Staff Advancement

glencora@oregonstate.edu

College of Engineering | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Cybersecurity | Theoretical Computer Science

Martin Erwig

Professor

erwig@oregonstate.edu

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Software Engineering and Human Computer Interaction | Programming Languages | Computer Science Education