2017 IEEE 5th International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health (SeGAH)
This paper presents the design, implementation and evaluation of a home based intervention target... more This paper presents the design, implementation and evaluation of a home based intervention targeting economically disadvantaged children to improve asthma clinical outcomes. The monitoring and intervention activities were delivered within an embedded astronaut-themed game to promote user acceptance and compliance to the clinical protocol. An iterative, user-centered design process was used to prototype the asthma home monitoring system (Aspira) involving a tablet application, digital spirometer and a particulate monitor linked to a data management server. Children of low socioeconomic demographic populations were the main target group for this study as they have significantly high asthma rates and lack of condition awareness. Aspira is the first intervention of its kind that provides the target audience an easy to use and low-cost inhome monitoring application. Aspira's design is grounded in the principles of social cognitive theory and aims to increase use, participation and efficacy in the target population. We present the results of a pilot study to determine feasibility and preliminary efficacy of the resulting high-fidelity Aspira prototype among four families with asthmatic children living in the Seattle metropolitan area.
Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
This paper presents the latest version of the Pain Reporting and Management mHealth Platform for ... more This paper presents the latest version of the Pain Reporting and Management mHealth Platform for adolescent Sickle Cell Disease, developed in collaboration by Arizona State University and the Children's National Health System. This platform supports a cross-platform mHealth app, reporting and task management API, and portal dashboard for care provider monitoring. Extending our prior work, the latest version adds enhanced app features (games, power-ups, badges, notifications) to promote sustained adherence to the reporting protocol, and enhanced reporting features for providers that track high fidelity compliance measures and aggregate outcome scores. This paper summarizes the architecture and principle features of the platform, and presents data supporting improved compliance.
This paper is a position statement on the benefits that an Open Source toolkit can bring to the f... more This paper is a position statement on the benefits that an Open Source toolkit can bring to the field of image guided surgery. The particular example discussed here is the IGSTK toolkit. IGSTK is an open source software project designed for supporting the development of image guided surgery software applications. It provides functionalities for interfacing with optical and electromagnetic trackers, reading and visualizing DICOM datasets, as well as loading and displaying geometrical models resulting from image segmentation. These functionalities are enveloped by a simplified API implemented in a layer designed with emphasis on patient safety. The Toolkit is designed to ease the development of IGS applications, providing the basic functionalities related to the management of basic components. IGSTK is based on the Insight Toolkit (ITK) and the Visualization Toolkit (VTK), and can be combined with GUI toolkits such as FLTK and Qt. The IGSTK toolkit is distributed under a BSD license. ...
Proceedings of the 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (2017), 2017
Tablet-based healthcare technologies automating clinical triage procedures hold exciting promise ... more Tablet-based healthcare technologies automating clinical triage procedures hold exciting promise for increased precision and expediency. These point-ofcare (POC) solutions are often complex, and their introduction to the marketplace may encounter cost and usability barriers. One example triage procedure is wound measurement. This paper demonstrates an innovative approach to POC wound measurement by introducing a free "light" version of a wound measurement mobile app that serves as a teaser for a full-featured commercial offering. We first describe the commercial offering; a 3D wound assessment tablet application. Then we present the smartphone app that inherits features from the tablet app. The smartphone app adopts a simple scaling algorithm to address the lack of a highly advanced computer vision system for the automated wound measurement task that exists in the tablet app. This paper describes the design process for developing this smartphone app, provides a detailed exposition of the scaling algorithm, and discusses the significance of this approach to app development and distribution.
2017 IEEE 30th Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T), 2017
Undergraduate programs in software engineering are relatively new. The first ABET accredited prog... more Undergraduate programs in software engineering are relatively new. The first ABET accredited programs received accreditation in 2001. There are currently 31 ABET accredited software engineering programs worldwide with additional programs being added each year. In this session, panelists will discuss their experience starting new programs, developing curriculum, and navigating accreditation issues.
2017 IEEE 15th International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications (SERA), 2017
The Software Enterprise at ASU aims at equipping students with practical knowledge of modern soft... more The Software Enterprise at ASU aims at equipping students with practical knowledge of modern software practices through a multi-year instructional sequence that employs an iterative feedback pedagogical model in order for graduates to be adequately prepared for the workforce upon graduation. By means of the Software Enterprise Website, the community of teaching practitioners in this area having similar beliefs and approaches can find a great deal of support and free resources for the purpose of Software Engineering Education. The goal of this project is to incorporate a versioning tool to a Content Management Framework (CMF) that allows the website administrator to create, moderate and publish content revisions, particularly that of the Curricular Modules which comprise of content representing topics offered in courses, while versioning the actual content using GitHub, a web-based repository hosting service. In this case, the CMF used was Drupal 7, which is PHPwritten and open-source, and provides a back-end framework for a broad range of web sites worldwide from blogs and microsites to collaborative social communities. The versioning module was developed in PHP while employing the Drupal 7 API for menu structuring and CMS integration, and the GitHub API for versioning and performing easy syncing with contents on GitHub via a RESTful interface.
This paper describes the impact of an agile process support environment in helping faculty manage... more This paper describes the impact of an agile process support environment in helping faculty manage software engineering capstone projects and the learning outcomes associated with the capstone experience. Software engineering capstone projects are notoriously time-consuming to manage for faculty mentors. Team projects often fall behind due to the inexperience of the students and the external pressures they face. They may be accustomed to performing heroic acts on prior individual class projects, and think they can be successful this way again. But in a significantly sized real-world team project, they find out too late that this approach will not work. Students remain successful often by significant effort on the part of a faculty mentor. The mentor may setup a process infrastructure to enables project monitoring. Mentors may find themselves asking for frequent in-class project reviews, out-of-class appointments, and significant documentation. Mentoring a capstone project, while a po...
Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming – Workshops, 2021
Due to the fast-paced nature of the software industry and the success of small agile projects, re... more Due to the fast-paced nature of the software industry and the success of small agile projects, researchers and practitioners are interested in scaling agile processes to larger projects. Agile software development (ASD) has been growing in popularity for over two decades. With the success of small-scale agile transformation, organizations started to focus on scaling agile. There is a scarcity of literature in this field making it harder to find plausible evidence to identify the science behind large scale agile transformation. The objective of this paper is to present a better understanding of the current state of research in the field of scaled agile transformation and explore research gaps. This tertiary study identifies seven relevant peer reviewed studies and reports research findings and future research avenues.
2006 Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings
The traditional software engineering instruction model asks students to first take survey-of-thef... more The traditional software engineering instruction model asks students to first take survey-of-thefield style course that exposes them to a breadth of software engineering practices and processes but typically lacks depth in any given area. The results are students who can recite the basic principles, but who lack the comprehension to apply them. These types of courses are then followed by courses that delve into a specific process area in significant depth, for example a Software Design or a Software Quality Assurance course. These courses focus on deep skills development within the narrow process area. Students then complete the program with the capstone project, which asks them to apply this knowledge in a full semester project. Students do not get exposure to the full engineering process spectrum in a manner that allows them to apply the deeper skillsets they may have developed in a particular area. The results are students who can claim knowledge of a particular skill, but lack the context in which to apply this knowledge. A typical conversation an interviewer might have with a graduating student might be "well, yes I did a few use cases in my Software Requirements class, but no I have not done one of that size nor do I understand how to use that model to drive analysis and test planning." This paper presents an alternative approach underway at Arizona State University's Polytechnic campus. In this approach, students are accelerated through the knowledge, comprehension, application levels through a hybrid teaching and learning model that combines multiple pedagogical approaches with a process-guided exposure to software engineering. project. We elaborate on this approach in the next section.
International Journal on Innovations in Online Education, 2020
Arizona State Universityʼs bachelor of science in software engineering is the first Accreditation... more Arizona State Universityʼs bachelor of science in software engineering is the first Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) accredited software engineering program offered in an online modality. ASUʼs online software engineering program has experienced rapid growth, to over 1000 students in a 5-year span. The programʼs design is the same as the on-campus offering, featuring a unique curriculum centered on a professional spine comprised of team-oriented project-based learning courses. The scale of the program and its growth, combined with a hands-on applied learning approach, creates challenges that have mandated innovative and adaptable processes to be successful. Specifically, the faculty have led a three-year effort on pedagogical innovations and internal quality process improvements to address unique aspects of online software engineering education delivery. In this paper we will present the evolution of the online program and the innovations required to support scale and growth while producing industry-ready software engineers. These innovations have resulted in an upward trend in student satisfaction, reversing a prior three-year downward trend from the inception of the online program.
Proceedings of the conference on Wireless Health, 2015
This paper presents the design of an mHealth application for prevention and early intervention of... more This paper presents the design of an mHealth application for prevention and early intervention of childhood anxiety. The application is based on REACH, a preventative-early intervention protocol for childhood anxiety. This paper describes the multidisciplinary design process, sharing lessons learned in developing an effective mHealth application. This mHealth application is unique due to participant age, preventive-early intervention focus, and utilization of mobile technology in a situated manner. A design process inspired by user-centered leveraging key informant interviews was used to identify application features, including game based strategies and an animated motivational avatar. Validation was performed through external review and a usability study performed with target end users of the application. Results suggest overall satisfaction, ease of use, and increased motivation.
Proceedings 13th IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (Cat. No.98EX239)
Only recently has the research community started to consider how to make software process models ... more Only recently has the research community started to consider how to make software process models interoperable and reusable. The task is difficult. Software processes are inherently creative and dynamic, difficult to define and repeat at an enactable level of detail. Additionally, interoperability and reusability have not been considered important issues. Recent interoperability and reusability solutions advocate the development of standard process model representations based on common concepts or generic schemas, which are used as a basis for translating between heterogeneous process representations. In this paper we propose an alternative approach through the development of process-based components. We present the Open Process Components Framework, a componentbased framework for software process modeling. In this approach, process models are constructed as sets of components which interact in meaningful ways. Interoperability and reuse are obtained through encapsulation of process representations, an explicit representation of process state, and an extendable set of class relationships.
The software engineering community touts component-based software engineering as a solution for m... more The software engineering community touts component-based software engineering as a solution for many of its woes including reducing cycle time, reducing costs, increasing productivity, allowing easier integration to name just a few. Indeed, many Web-based systems are now built with open-source and vendor provided component technologies. While these advances have led to improvements in the development process, they have also led to a great deal of pressure on downstream processes as these systems must be deployed, tuned, and supported. The complexities in deploying and supporting component-based software for distributed and Web-based applications are not understood in the academic or professional communities. This chapter stresses the need for addressing this problem by presenting component-based software for Web applications from a deployment perspective, characterizing the issues through real-world experiences with highly component-based applications, and presents strategies and directions for the community to pursue.
2017 IEEE 5th International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health (SeGAH)
This paper presents the design, implementation and evaluation of a home based intervention target... more This paper presents the design, implementation and evaluation of a home based intervention targeting economically disadvantaged children to improve asthma clinical outcomes. The monitoring and intervention activities were delivered within an embedded astronaut-themed game to promote user acceptance and compliance to the clinical protocol. An iterative, user-centered design process was used to prototype the asthma home monitoring system (Aspira) involving a tablet application, digital spirometer and a particulate monitor linked to a data management server. Children of low socioeconomic demographic populations were the main target group for this study as they have significantly high asthma rates and lack of condition awareness. Aspira is the first intervention of its kind that provides the target audience an easy to use and low-cost inhome monitoring application. Aspira's design is grounded in the principles of social cognitive theory and aims to increase use, participation and efficacy in the target population. We present the results of a pilot study to determine feasibility and preliminary efficacy of the resulting high-fidelity Aspira prototype among four families with asthmatic children living in the Seattle metropolitan area.
Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
This paper presents the latest version of the Pain Reporting and Management mHealth Platform for ... more This paper presents the latest version of the Pain Reporting and Management mHealth Platform for adolescent Sickle Cell Disease, developed in collaboration by Arizona State University and the Children's National Health System. This platform supports a cross-platform mHealth app, reporting and task management API, and portal dashboard for care provider monitoring. Extending our prior work, the latest version adds enhanced app features (games, power-ups, badges, notifications) to promote sustained adherence to the reporting protocol, and enhanced reporting features for providers that track high fidelity compliance measures and aggregate outcome scores. This paper summarizes the architecture and principle features of the platform, and presents data supporting improved compliance.
This paper is a position statement on the benefits that an Open Source toolkit can bring to the f... more This paper is a position statement on the benefits that an Open Source toolkit can bring to the field of image guided surgery. The particular example discussed here is the IGSTK toolkit. IGSTK is an open source software project designed for supporting the development of image guided surgery software applications. It provides functionalities for interfacing with optical and electromagnetic trackers, reading and visualizing DICOM datasets, as well as loading and displaying geometrical models resulting from image segmentation. These functionalities are enveloped by a simplified API implemented in a layer designed with emphasis on patient safety. The Toolkit is designed to ease the development of IGS applications, providing the basic functionalities related to the management of basic components. IGSTK is based on the Insight Toolkit (ITK) and the Visualization Toolkit (VTK), and can be combined with GUI toolkits such as FLTK and Qt. The IGSTK toolkit is distributed under a BSD license. ...
Proceedings of the 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (2017), 2017
Tablet-based healthcare technologies automating clinical triage procedures hold exciting promise ... more Tablet-based healthcare technologies automating clinical triage procedures hold exciting promise for increased precision and expediency. These point-ofcare (POC) solutions are often complex, and their introduction to the marketplace may encounter cost and usability barriers. One example triage procedure is wound measurement. This paper demonstrates an innovative approach to POC wound measurement by introducing a free "light" version of a wound measurement mobile app that serves as a teaser for a full-featured commercial offering. We first describe the commercial offering; a 3D wound assessment tablet application. Then we present the smartphone app that inherits features from the tablet app. The smartphone app adopts a simple scaling algorithm to address the lack of a highly advanced computer vision system for the automated wound measurement task that exists in the tablet app. This paper describes the design process for developing this smartphone app, provides a detailed exposition of the scaling algorithm, and discusses the significance of this approach to app development and distribution.
2017 IEEE 30th Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T), 2017
Undergraduate programs in software engineering are relatively new. The first ABET accredited prog... more Undergraduate programs in software engineering are relatively new. The first ABET accredited programs received accreditation in 2001. There are currently 31 ABET accredited software engineering programs worldwide with additional programs being added each year. In this session, panelists will discuss their experience starting new programs, developing curriculum, and navigating accreditation issues.
2017 IEEE 15th International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications (SERA), 2017
The Software Enterprise at ASU aims at equipping students with practical knowledge of modern soft... more The Software Enterprise at ASU aims at equipping students with practical knowledge of modern software practices through a multi-year instructional sequence that employs an iterative feedback pedagogical model in order for graduates to be adequately prepared for the workforce upon graduation. By means of the Software Enterprise Website, the community of teaching practitioners in this area having similar beliefs and approaches can find a great deal of support and free resources for the purpose of Software Engineering Education. The goal of this project is to incorporate a versioning tool to a Content Management Framework (CMF) that allows the website administrator to create, moderate and publish content revisions, particularly that of the Curricular Modules which comprise of content representing topics offered in courses, while versioning the actual content using GitHub, a web-based repository hosting service. In this case, the CMF used was Drupal 7, which is PHPwritten and open-source, and provides a back-end framework for a broad range of web sites worldwide from blogs and microsites to collaborative social communities. The versioning module was developed in PHP while employing the Drupal 7 API for menu structuring and CMS integration, and the GitHub API for versioning and performing easy syncing with contents on GitHub via a RESTful interface.
This paper describes the impact of an agile process support environment in helping faculty manage... more This paper describes the impact of an agile process support environment in helping faculty manage software engineering capstone projects and the learning outcomes associated with the capstone experience. Software engineering capstone projects are notoriously time-consuming to manage for faculty mentors. Team projects often fall behind due to the inexperience of the students and the external pressures they face. They may be accustomed to performing heroic acts on prior individual class projects, and think they can be successful this way again. But in a significantly sized real-world team project, they find out too late that this approach will not work. Students remain successful often by significant effort on the part of a faculty mentor. The mentor may setup a process infrastructure to enables project monitoring. Mentors may find themselves asking for frequent in-class project reviews, out-of-class appointments, and significant documentation. Mentoring a capstone project, while a po...
Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming – Workshops, 2021
Due to the fast-paced nature of the software industry and the success of small agile projects, re... more Due to the fast-paced nature of the software industry and the success of small agile projects, researchers and practitioners are interested in scaling agile processes to larger projects. Agile software development (ASD) has been growing in popularity for over two decades. With the success of small-scale agile transformation, organizations started to focus on scaling agile. There is a scarcity of literature in this field making it harder to find plausible evidence to identify the science behind large scale agile transformation. The objective of this paper is to present a better understanding of the current state of research in the field of scaled agile transformation and explore research gaps. This tertiary study identifies seven relevant peer reviewed studies and reports research findings and future research avenues.
2006 Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings
The traditional software engineering instruction model asks students to first take survey-of-thef... more The traditional software engineering instruction model asks students to first take survey-of-thefield style course that exposes them to a breadth of software engineering practices and processes but typically lacks depth in any given area. The results are students who can recite the basic principles, but who lack the comprehension to apply them. These types of courses are then followed by courses that delve into a specific process area in significant depth, for example a Software Design or a Software Quality Assurance course. These courses focus on deep skills development within the narrow process area. Students then complete the program with the capstone project, which asks them to apply this knowledge in a full semester project. Students do not get exposure to the full engineering process spectrum in a manner that allows them to apply the deeper skillsets they may have developed in a particular area. The results are students who can claim knowledge of a particular skill, but lack the context in which to apply this knowledge. A typical conversation an interviewer might have with a graduating student might be "well, yes I did a few use cases in my Software Requirements class, but no I have not done one of that size nor do I understand how to use that model to drive analysis and test planning." This paper presents an alternative approach underway at Arizona State University's Polytechnic campus. In this approach, students are accelerated through the knowledge, comprehension, application levels through a hybrid teaching and learning model that combines multiple pedagogical approaches with a process-guided exposure to software engineering. project. We elaborate on this approach in the next section.
International Journal on Innovations in Online Education, 2020
Arizona State Universityʼs bachelor of science in software engineering is the first Accreditation... more Arizona State Universityʼs bachelor of science in software engineering is the first Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) accredited software engineering program offered in an online modality. ASUʼs online software engineering program has experienced rapid growth, to over 1000 students in a 5-year span. The programʼs design is the same as the on-campus offering, featuring a unique curriculum centered on a professional spine comprised of team-oriented project-based learning courses. The scale of the program and its growth, combined with a hands-on applied learning approach, creates challenges that have mandated innovative and adaptable processes to be successful. Specifically, the faculty have led a three-year effort on pedagogical innovations and internal quality process improvements to address unique aspects of online software engineering education delivery. In this paper we will present the evolution of the online program and the innovations required to support scale and growth while producing industry-ready software engineers. These innovations have resulted in an upward trend in student satisfaction, reversing a prior three-year downward trend from the inception of the online program.
Proceedings of the conference on Wireless Health, 2015
This paper presents the design of an mHealth application for prevention and early intervention of... more This paper presents the design of an mHealth application for prevention and early intervention of childhood anxiety. The application is based on REACH, a preventative-early intervention protocol for childhood anxiety. This paper describes the multidisciplinary design process, sharing lessons learned in developing an effective mHealth application. This mHealth application is unique due to participant age, preventive-early intervention focus, and utilization of mobile technology in a situated manner. A design process inspired by user-centered leveraging key informant interviews was used to identify application features, including game based strategies and an animated motivational avatar. Validation was performed through external review and a usability study performed with target end users of the application. Results suggest overall satisfaction, ease of use, and increased motivation.
Proceedings 13th IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (Cat. No.98EX239)
Only recently has the research community started to consider how to make software process models ... more Only recently has the research community started to consider how to make software process models interoperable and reusable. The task is difficult. Software processes are inherently creative and dynamic, difficult to define and repeat at an enactable level of detail. Additionally, interoperability and reusability have not been considered important issues. Recent interoperability and reusability solutions advocate the development of standard process model representations based on common concepts or generic schemas, which are used as a basis for translating between heterogeneous process representations. In this paper we propose an alternative approach through the development of process-based components. We present the Open Process Components Framework, a componentbased framework for software process modeling. In this approach, process models are constructed as sets of components which interact in meaningful ways. Interoperability and reuse are obtained through encapsulation of process representations, an explicit representation of process state, and an extendable set of class relationships.
The software engineering community touts component-based software engineering as a solution for m... more The software engineering community touts component-based software engineering as a solution for many of its woes including reducing cycle time, reducing costs, increasing productivity, allowing easier integration to name just a few. Indeed, many Web-based systems are now built with open-source and vendor provided component technologies. While these advances have led to improvements in the development process, they have also led to a great deal of pressure on downstream processes as these systems must be deployed, tuned, and supported. The complexities in deploying and supporting component-based software for distributed and Web-based applications are not understood in the academic or professional communities. This chapter stresses the need for addressing this problem by presenting component-based software for Web applications from a deployment perspective, characterizing the issues through real-world experiences with highly component-based applications, and presents strategies and directions for the community to pursue.
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