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Irwin Kwan
Researcher at Oregon State University
Publications - 32
Citations - 1820
Irwin Kwan is an academic researcher from Oregon State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: End user & Debugging. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 32 publications receiving 1529 citations. Previous affiliations of Irwin Kwan include University of Victoria & MathWorks.
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Too much, too little, or just right? Ways explanations impact end users' mental models
TL;DR: It is suggested that completeness is more important than soundness: increasing completeness via certain information types helped participants' mental models and, surprisingly, their perception of the cost/benefit tradeoff of attending to the explanations.
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Awareness in the Wild: Why Communication Breakdowns Occur
TL;DR: Observations show that organizational culture has an effect on how developers are made aware of changes related to the implementation of work items, and that communication-based social networks revolving around particular work items are dynamic throughout development, and therefore awareness needs to be maintained in infrastructures of work.
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Tell me more?: the effects of mental model soundness on personalizing an intelligent agent
TL;DR: The results suggest that by helping end users understand a system's reasoning, intelligent agents may elicit more and better feedback, thus more closely aligning their output with each user's intentions.
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GenderMag: A Method for Evaluating Software's Gender Inclusiveness
Margaret Burnett,Simone Stumpf,Jamie Macbeth,Stephann Makri,Laura Beckwith,Irwin Kwan,Anicia Peters,William Jernigan +7 more
TL;DR: This work devised the GenderMag method, the first systematic method to find gender-inclusiveness issues in software, so that practitioners can design and produce problem-solving software that is more usable by everyone.
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Does Socio-Technical Congruence Have an Effect on Software Build Success? A Study of Coordination in a Software Project
TL;DR: There is a relationship between socio-technical congruence and build success probability, but only for certain build types, and it is observed that in some situations, higher congruency actually leads to lower build success rates.