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Teaching variability engineering to cognitive psychologists

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Christoph Seidl,

Irena DomachowskaAuthors Info & Claims

SPLC '14: Proceedings of the 18th International Software Product Line Conference: Companion Volume for Workshops, Demonstrations and Tools - Volume 2

Pages 16 - 23

https://doi.org/10.1145/2647908.2655961

Published: 15 September 2014 Publication History

Abstract

In research of cognitive psychology, experiments to measure cognitive processes may be run in many similar yet slightly different configurations. Variability engineering offers techniques to handle variable configurations both conceptually and technically. However, these techniques are largely unknown to cognitive psychologists so that experiment configurations are specified informally or too coarse grain. This is problematic, because it becomes difficult to get an overview of paradigm configurations used in the so far conducted experiments. Variability engineering techniques provide, i.a., concise notations for capturing variability in software and can also be used to express the configurable nature of a wide range of experiments in cognitive psychology. Furthermore, it enables cognitive psychologists to structure configuration knowledge, to identify suitably similar experiment setups and to more efficiently identify individual configuration options as relevant reasons for a particular effect in the outcome of an experiment. In this paper, we present experiences with teaching variability engineering to cognitive psychologists along with a suitable curriculum.

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Teaching variability engineering to cognitive psychologists
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    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education
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2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Designing software
      1. Software implementation planning
        Software design techniques
    2. Software development process management
      1. Software development methods

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DOI:10.1145/2647908

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