Emotional Awareness in Software Development: Theory and Measurement

Emotions have an effect on developers' progress during software development tasks. The purpose of this position paper is to investigate the effects of emotional awareness, specifically type clarity, on developers' progress. A proposal for this investigation, and a discussion of the current work implicating the effects of emotion in software development, are presented.

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