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Prof Helen Sharp
Email: h.c.sharp@open.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)1908 653638
Fax: +44 (0)1908 652140
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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. Since
2000, I have been 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; and HCI. I am Associate Editor in Chief for IEEE
Software with responsibility for human and social aspects.
The Agile Alliance’s Academic Research Programme has been discontinued,
but reports of the exciting
research that it supported are still available on the website.
I have been an investigator for externally-funded grants from EPSRC and
ESRC: Models of motivation in software engineering (EPSRC; £52K; Jan to Dec
2006); Mechanisms of Innovation in Design (ESRC Cognitive Engineering
Programme; £80K; April 1996 to December 1998); Facilitating communication
across domains of engineering (EPSRC; £220K; Feb 1995 to April 1997).
I am joint author for one of the leading HCI text books and am co-founder of the International Pedagogical Patterns project, which celebrated 10 years of activity in 2006.
Some of my recent publications are listed below.
- 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.
with
Yvonne Rogers and Jenny Preece (2007) Interaction
Design: beyond human-computer interaction (2nd edition),
John Wiley (with associated website)
- 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.
- Armitage, U., Wilson, S., and
Sharp, H.C. (2004) 'Can Creating Navigation Aids Benefit Learning with
Electronic Texts?', Journal of ITSE (Interactive Technology and Smart
Education), 1(2).
- 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.