Co-Chairs: Walid Maalej (Universität Hamburg), Alexander Felferning (TU Graz)
“Software systems are developed by humans for humans”. This motto represents the main driver of this track. On one hand, social and human factors influence software engineering activities (and their productivity) as well as software systems (and their quality). Particularly empirical research has aimed during the last decade to understand, leverage, and consider human and social factors when developers, testers, managers, and users interact in software engineering projects. On the other hand, software is pervasive in our lives: it mediates people-to-people communication, supports human choices, and might even have far-reaching impact on human lives, economies, and planet. Software and its development needs to accommodate a wide range of social and human values, such as trust, governance, reputation, privacy, and sustainability – which by itself should be reflected in design, engineering, and deployment processes. This track brings together the core contributing communities on socio-technical design and value orientation to present and discuss cutting edge research and to further advance the field. We particularly target the communities: software engineering, information systems, CSCW/Social Computing, and Societal Computing but are also seeking to cross boundaries to related fields.