@article{brown_parnin_2021, title={Nudging Students Toward Better Software Engineering Behaviors}, DOI={10.1109/BotSE52550.2021.00010}, abstractNote={Student experiences in large undergraduate Computer Science courses are increasingly impacted by automated systems. Bots, or agents of software automation, are useful for efficiently grading and generating feedback. Current efforts at automation in CS education focus on supporting instructional tasks, but do not address student struggles due to poor behaviors, such as procrastination. In this paper, we explore using bots to improve the software engineering behaviors of students using developer recommendation choice architectures, a framework incorporating behavioral science concepts in recommendations to improve the actions of programmers. We implemented this framework in class-bot, a novel system designed to nudge students to make better choices while working on programming assignments. This work presents a preliminary evaluation integrating this tool in an introductory programming course. Our results show that class-bot is beneficial for improving student development behaviors increasing code quality and productivity.}, journal={2021 IEEE/ACM THIRD INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON BOTS IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING (BOTSE 2021)}, author={Brown, Chris and Parnin, Chris}, year={2021}, pages={11–15} }
 @article{brown_2019, title={Digital Nudges for Encouraging Developer Actions}, DOI={10.1109/ICSE-Companion.2019.00082}, abstractNote={Researchers have examined a wide variety of practices to help software engineers complete different programming tasks. Despite the fact that studies show software engineering practices and tools created to improve the software development process are useful for preventing bugs, decreasing debugging costs, reducing debugging time, and providing additional benefits, software engineers rarely use them in practice. To persuade humans to alter and adopt new behaviors, psychologists have studied the concept of nudges. My research aims to investigate how digital nudges, or the process of using technology to automatically create nudges, can be beneficial in helping software developers and teams adopt software engineering activities and integrate them into their normal workflow.}, journal={2019 IEEE/ACM 41ST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING: COMPANION PROCEEDINGS (ICSE-COMPANION 2019)}, author={Brown, Chris}, year={2019}, pages={202–205} }