• DocumentCode
    750270
  • Title

    Pleasure and pain: perceptual bias and its implications for software engineering

  • Author

    Guilford, Sheila ; Rugg, Gordon ; Scott, Niall

  • Volume
    19
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    2002
  • Firstpage
    63
  • Lastpage
    69
  • Abstract
    There is a bias in human perception that has practical and ethical implications for product evaluation in general and software evaluation in particular. A user´s recall of an experience can significantly differ from his or her feelings during the experience. This article describes its implications for software engineering
  • Keywords
    professional aspects; software engineering; ethical implications; perceptual bias; software engineering; software evaluation; Arithmetic; Collaboration; Decision making; Humans; Pain; Programming; Psychology; Software design; Software engineering; Usability;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Software, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0740-7459
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MS.2002.1003458
  • Filename
    1003458