Ann Barcomb, PhD

PhD in Computer Science/Information Systems, Software Engineering specialization, University of Limerick, Ireland
MSc in International Business, Information Systems specialization, Maastricht University, Netherlands
Dr. Ann Barcomb

Areas of Research

Software engineering, open source software, human and social aspects of software engineering, human factors, research methods, collaboration, community management
Dr. Barcomb's research goals are to improve interpretation and understanding of textual data, and to make software development better for participants. They want to facilitate the exchange of knowledge between practitioners and researchers, and to understand and generalize processes and practices in the following areas: Research Area I: Improving Textual Data Analysis, Research Area II: Participation in Software Development, and Research Area III: Software Developer Attributes.

Supervising degrees

Electrical and Computer Engineering - Masters: Accepting Inquiries
Electrical and Computer Engineering - Doctoral: Accepting Inquiries

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Detailed overview of research topics
List of current available funded positions in the research group
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Research profile (ResearchGate)
Research Profile (ORCiD)
Research Profile (Google Scholar)

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