Description

Modeling is a genuinely human enterprise, so many of the questions related to modeling can only be answered by empirical studies of human factors. The HuFaMo workshop series is the venue for early stage empirical research involving human factors in modeling. Our goal is to improve the state of the science and professionalism in empirical research in the Model Based Engineering community. Typical examples of such questions might consider the usability of a certain approach such as a method or language, or the emotional states or personal judgements of modelers.

We invite submissions regarding empirical studies of emotion, cognition, personality traits of modelers as well as studies about activities and communities of modelers, their culture and capabilities.

Beyond conventional papers, we also seek to publish study designs, negative results, and, in fact, suggestions for actual studies to be carried out at the workshop.

Submission types

We solicit four types of submissions, each with their specific quality and review criteria:

1. Empirical Study: Papers that present research results of empirical studies of human factors in modeling. This includes replication studies, negative results, and workshop papers presenting a novel approach that prioritizes interesting ideas over consolidated results. We want to encourage contributors to not just submit a paper presenting their work, but also the raw data and data analysis scripts.
2. Study Design: Papers that motivate, describe, and evaluate study designs. They will be evaluated based on the quality of the study design alone, i.e., whether the reviewers deem them promising to obtain meaningful, valid, and interesting results. No actual study or study results are expected. This kind of submission may be considered a community-shepherding process similar to what is common in the patterns community.
3. Empirical Theory: Papers that contribute to or develop a theory of some aspect of a human factor relevant in modeling. No empirical validation is required, but a thorough analysis of the existing work from all relevant fields (including e.g., psychology, sociology, philosophy, and more as appropriate).
4. Empirical Activity: Papers describe a study design that is to be carried out as part of the HuFaMo workshop, with the workshop participants as study participants. The proposal should contain a detailed study design as well as a justification of why it should be run at this particular venue. We will select max. two (2) such activities, and they will have the same amount of time as other presentations. Result summaries

All of these may be submitted either as a short paper (up to 4 pages) or a long paper (6-8 pages), depending on their ambition and quality as determined in the review process. Submissions should mark clearly in their title, to which category they pertain.

All accepted submissions will be discussed openly in the workshop. Publication requires at least one of the quthors to be present at the workshop. We particularly encourage researchers that need to design a study but lack experience in this field to come forward and present study designs so these may be discussed and improved, leading to better quality research.

Submissions must conform to the same formatting guidelines as for the main conference.

All submissions must be uploaded through EasyChair.

Dissemination

• All workshop papers will be available as a preprint at the workshop electronically.
• After the workshop, there will be post proceedings in a dedicated CEUR-WS volume.
• We strongly encourage authors to publicly archive additional materials like raw data or analysis scripts before submitting: https://zenodo.org/collection/user-hufamo.
• The authors of the best papers papers will be invited to extend them and submit to a Special Issue of Springer's Software Quality Journal (SQJ).

Important dates

• Abstracts submission deadline: July 3, 2016
• Papers submission deadline: July 10, 2016
• Authors notification: August 7, 2016
• Final preprint: September 13, 2016
• Workshop date: October 4, 2016
• Post proceedings: October 31, 2016

Program

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Organizers

• Harald Störrle, Technical University of Denmark (Denmark): Moderation, Liaison
• Michel Chaudron, Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden) and University of Gothenburg (Sweden): PC, Review
• (to be confirmed) Miguel Goulão, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal): Proceedings
• Vlad Acretoaie, configit ApS (Denmark): Web, Social Media

Program committee (to be confirmed)

• Silvia Abrahão, Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain)
• Muhammad Ali Babar, University of Adelaide (Australia) and IT Univeristy of Copenhagen (Denmark)
• Laura Beckwith, Configit UX (Denmark)
• Fernando Brito e Abreu, ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (Portugal)
• Håkan Burden, Viktoria Swedish ICT (Sweden)
• Marcela Genero, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha (Spain)
• Regina Hebig, LIP6 - Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie (France)
• Emílio Insfran, Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain)
• Geylani Kardas, Ege University (Turkey)
• Grischa Liebel, Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden) and University of Gothenburg (Sweden)
• Xavier Le Pallec, Université Lille (France)
• Marjan Mernik, University of Maribor (Slovenia) and University of Alabama at Birmingham (USA)
• Lutz Prechelt, Freie Universität Berlin (Germany)
• Jean-Sébastien Sottet, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (Luxembourg)
• Juha-Pekka Tolvanen, MetaCase (Finland)