@article{sedhain_diwanji_solomon_leon_kuttal_2024, title={Developers' information seeking in Question & Answer websites through a gender lens}, volume={79}, ISSN={["2665-9182"]}, url={https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cola.2024.101267}, DOI={10.1016/j.cola.2024.101267}, abstractNote={Question & Answer websites for developers, such as Stack Overflow, contain enormous programming knowledge which can be redundant and cost substantial time and cognitive effort. We investigated the information seeking behavior of developers on Stack Overflow using Information Foraging Theory. To understand the influence of gender on foraging patterns, we conducted a gender-balanced think-aloud lab study with 12 participants, followed by retrospective interviews. The participants performed two debugging tasks: (1) understand foraging between question variants and (2) understand foraging between answer variants, on Stack Overflow. Various cues and strategies were utilized by the participants to find relevant question and optimal answer on Stack Overflow. Gender effect on their foraging pattern was observed as men participants used 19.7% more cues and spent 55% more time than women participants. We also categorized various cues in terms of cost-value proposition and reported a debugging foraging model for Stack Overflow. Our study has implications for Question and Answer websites as well as Information Foraging Theory.}, journal={JOURNAL OF COMPUTER LANGUAGES}, author={Sedhain, Abim and Diwanji, Vaishvi and Solomon, Helen and Leon, Shahnewaz and Kuttal, Sandeep Kaur}, year={2024}, month={Jun} }
 @article{leon_tamanna_kuttal_2023, title={Comparing Foraging Behavior Across Code Hosting and Q&A Platforms through a Gender Lens}, ISSN={["1943-6092"]}, DOI={10.1109/VL-HCC57772.2023.00040}, abstractNote={This study compares the information foraging behavior of developers on two prominent platforms, StackOverflow and GitHub, which are widely used for code hosting and question and answer purposes. Understanding how developers seek and retrieve information is crucial for designing effective interfaces. In a gender and expertise-balanced study involving 12 developers, we utilized Information Foraging Theory to analyze their foraging behavior. Our findings revealed contrasting patterns, with women spending 30% more time and utilizing 21.24% more cues on GitHub, while men utilized 55% more time and 19.7% more cues on StackOverflow. These insights have significant implications for optimizing website design and information presentation to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of developers' information seeking processes.}, journal={2023 IEEE SYMPOSIUM ON VISUAL LANGUAGES AND HUMAN-CENTRIC COMPUTING, VL/HCC}, author={Leon, Shahnewaz and Tamanna, Mahzabin and Kuttal, Sandeep Kaur}, year={2023}, pages={235–238} }
 @inbook{sedhain_leon_raasch_kuttal_2023, title={Developers Foraging Behavior in Code Hosting Sites: A Gender Perspective}, url={https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35129-7_42}, DOI={10.1007/978-3-031-35129-7_42}, abstractNote={Code hosting sites, like GitHub, contains an overwhelming number of projects, making it challenging for developers to forage through these sites to find the right repository or project. To understand the foraging behavior of developers, we conducted a gender-balanced (6 men and 6 women) think-aloud lab study. The participants completed the tasks of finding a repository and finding a bug within a project. We analyzed the participants’ foraging behavior using Information Foraging Theory. Our results revealed the cues and strategies used by both men and women developers. The results have implications to improve gender-inclusivity in code hosting sites.}, author={Sedhain, Abim and Leon, Shahnewaz and Raasch, Riley and Kuttal, Sandeep Kaur}, year={2023} }