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SUMMARY:Behavioral Software Engineering
DESCRIPTION:According to the traditional economic theory\, markets are full
 y efficient and humans operate in them in a rational way. In the late 70s 
 Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky started disproving this efficient markets
  hypothesis\, contrasting the consistently logical Homo Economicus (Econ) 
 they depicted\, with the more realistic Human who takes decisions based on
  his questionable points of view. Doing so they gave birth to the study of
  the psychological factors involved in the making of these decisions\, cal
 led Behavioral Economics.The same flawed reasoning also impacts other fiel
 ds like software engineering: we cannot behave as cold Econ when spending 
 or investing our money\, or as rational Engeen when coding. We are humans 
 and this inevitably influences our choices.The anchoring effect and the av
 ailability bias affect how we benchmark and evaluate the performances of o
 ur programs. The pro-innovation and bandwagon biases drive our technical d
 ecisions\, making us to blindly follow hypes and gurus. The not-invented-h
 ere syndrome pushes us to create homemade tools instead of using de-facto 
 standards. The framing effect makes us solving the same problem in differe
 nt ways\, depending on how it is presented.During this talk we will go thr
 ough these and other heuristics and shortcuts used by our brain\, as found
  by behavioral economists in almost 50 years of research\, and examine the
 m in the context of software engineering\, discussing their consequences o
 n the quality of our work.\nSpeakers: Mario Fusco\nTrack: People & Culture
URL:https://vdt26.voxxeddays.ch/talk/behavioral-software-engineering/
LOCATION:Room A\nPalazzo dei Congressi\nLugano\, Switzerland
CATEGORIES:People & Culture
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