Stuck and Frustrated or in Flow and Happy: Sensing Developers' Emotions and Progress

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• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  2015 IEEE/ACM 37th IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering

• Publication date

  2015-05-16

• Fields of study

  Computer Science, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1109/ICSE.2015.334
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