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Adopting Augmented Reality for the Purpose of Software Development Process Training and Improvement: An Exploration

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Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement (EuroSPI 2018)

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Augmented reality (AR) is a technological field of study that bridges the physical and digital world together with a view to improving user experience. AR holds great potential to change the delivery of software services or software process improvement by utilizing a specific set of components. The purpose of this exploratory study is to propose an integration framework to support AR for improving the onboarding process, notably in introducing new hires to the development process while performing their daily tasks. In addition, it also aims to enhance the software development workflow process using AR. Similar to a GPS device that can guide you from point A to point B, our goal is to create software artifacts like navigation components where software teams may benefit from digitally enhanced working conditions provided using AR. After conducting a review in the literature, we confirmed that there is lack of studies about the combination of augmented reality with software engineering disciplines for onboarding. In this paper, we formalized our approach based on the benefits of AR. Ultimately; we propose an AR-based preliminary model for improving the software development process.

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  1. Department of Computer Engineering, Çankaya University, Ankara, Turkey

    İpek Ohri, İrem Öge, Bora Orkun & Murat Yilmaz

  2. Virtual Reality Research and Development Laboratory, Çankaya University, Ankara, Turkey

    İpek Ohri, İrem Öge, Bora Orkun & Murat Yilmaz

  3. Department of Computer Engineering, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey

    Eray Tuzun

  4. School of Computing, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland

    Paul Clarke & Rory V. O’Connor

  5. Lero – The Irish Software Research Centre, Limerick, Ireland

    Paul Clarke & Rory V. O’Connor

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Ohri, İ. et al. (2018). Adopting Augmented Reality for the Purpose of Software Development Process Training and Improvement: An Exploration. In: Larrucea, X., Santamaria, I., O'Connor, R., Messnarz, R. (eds) Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement. EuroSPI 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 896. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97925-0_16

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