Prof Helen Sharp Email: h.c.sharp@open.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0)1908 653638 Fax: +44 (0)1908 652140

I am Professor of Software Engineering in the Computing Department of The Open University, where I lead the Empirical Studies of Software Development research group.

My main research interest focuses on the human and social aspects of software engineering, leveraging my expertise in both Interaction Design and Software Engineering. In particular, I am interested in the practice of software engineering and therefore have established and maintain a wide range of industrial collaborations. I am actively involved in the development and organisation of several academic and industrial conferences in software engineering, HCI and agile development, including SPA, Agile; XP; OOPSLA (now called SPLASH); and HCI. I was Associate Editor in Chief for IEEE Software with responsibility for human and social aspects from 2008 to 2010 and am now co-editor of the Voice of Evidence column.

The Academic Research Programme for the Agile Alliance has been discontinued, but reports of the exciting research that it supported are still available on the website.

I am joint author for one of the leading HCI text books and am co-founder of the International Pedagogical Patterns project.

Selected publications are listed below.

• Plonka, L.F., Sharp, H. and van der Linden, J. (2012) Disengagement in Pair Programming: does it matter? In Proceedings of ICSE 2012.
• with Yvonne Rogers and Jenny Preece (2011) Interaction Design: beyond human-computer interaction (3^nd edition), John Wiley (with associated website).
• Ferreira, J., Sharp, H. and Robinson, H.M. (2011) User Experience Design and Agile Development: Managing cooperation through articulation work, Software Practice and Experience, 41(9) 963-974.
• Robinson, H. and Sharp, H. (2009) The emergence of object-oriented technology: the role of community, Behaviour and Information Technology 21(3) pp. 211-222.
• Kollman, J., Sharp, H. and Blandford, A. (2009) The role of user experience practitioners on agile project in Proceedings of Agile 2009.
• Hall, T., Beecham, S., Baddoo, N., Sharp, H. and Robinson, H. (2009) A Systematic Review of Theory Use in Studies Investigating the Motivations of Software Engineers, ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 18(3)
• Sharp, H., Robinson, H.M. and Petre, M. (2009) The Role of Physical Artefacts in Agile Software Development: two complementary perspectives, Interacting with Computers, 21(1-2) 108-116
• Hall, T., Sharp, H., Beecham, S., Baddoo, N., and Robinson, H. (2008) What do we know about motivation?, IEEE Software July/August 2008 92-94
• Sharp, H. and Robinson, H. (2008) Collaboration and Co-ordination in mature eXtreme Programming teams, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 66, 506-518.
• Capiluppi, A., Ramil, J.F., Higman, J., Sharp, H. and Smith, N. (2007) An empirical study of evolution patterns for an agile system, that combines qualitative and quantitative approaches, in Proceedings of ICSE 2007, ACM, pp 511-518.
• Robinson, H., Segal, J. and Sharp, H. (2007) Ethnographically-informed Empirical Studies of Software Practice, Information and Software Technology, 49(6) 540-551

• Petre, M., Johnson, J. and Sharp, H. (2006) Simple elements given complexity through combination: a combinatorial account of knitwear design, Design Studies, 27(2), 183-222
• Sharp, H., Hovenden, F. and Woodman, M. (2005) Using metaphor to analyse qualitative data: Vulcans and Humans in software development, Empirical Software Engineering 10(3) 343 - 365.
• Sharp, H. and Robinson, H. (2004) An ethnographic study of XP practices, Empirical Software Engineering 9(4), 353-375.
• Sharp, H., Woodman, M. and Hovenden, F. (2004) Tensions in the adoption and evolution of software quality management systems: a discourse analytic approach, International Journal of Human Computer Studies, 61(2), 219-236.
• Sharp, H., Manns, M.L. and Eckstein, J. (2003) Evolving Pedagogical Patterns: the work of the pedagogical patterns project, Computer Science Education, 13(4), 315-330.