EmoReflex: an AI-powered emotion-centric developer insights platform

Kashumi Madampe; John Grundy; Minh Nguyen; Ellen Welstead-Cloud; Vinh Tuan Huynh; Linh Doan; William Lay; Sayed Hashim

doi:10.1007/s10515-025-00488-7

EmoReflex: an AI-powered emotion-centric developer insights platform

Kashumi Madampe
, John Grundy
, Minh Nguyen
, Ellen Welstead-Cloud
, Vinh Tuan Huynh
, Linh Doan
, William Lay
, Sayed Hashim

Department of Software Systems & Cybersecurity

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Abstract

There has been great interest in better understanding software engineer emotions during development. But how to do this? We built a prototype AI-powered Emotion-centric Developer Insights Platform, EmoReflex, to support developers to report and reflect how they feel when working on various tasks across different metrics. It also assists their managers to get insights into their team’s emotional health, and provides them with recommendations to guide them handle the team’s emotional wellbeing. We present our tool prototype and evaluation results generated by a user study conducted with two user groups consisting of twenty developers and twenty managers. We present some design implications derived from our user study that can be used to inform design decisions in emotion-centric software development tools.

Original language	English
Article number	22
Number of pages	32
Journal	Automated Software Engineering
Volume	32
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10515-025-00488-7
Publication status	Published - 20 Feb 2025

Keywords

Affects
Agile
Changes
Developer tools
Emotional intelligence
Emotions
Human factors
Productivity
Requirements
Socio-technical grounded theory
Software engineering
Software teams
Team goals
Well-being
Workplace awareness

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