QuoDocs: Improving developer engagement in software documentation through gamification

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1531-1536

  Sukale, Ryan ^a   Pfaff, Mark S ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaborative writing; Knowledge building; Software documentation; Wiki

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SCIENCE; ERGONOMICS;

COLLABORATIVE WRITING; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; KNOWLEDGE BUILDING; OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS; PERSONALIZATIONS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPER; SOFTWARE DOCUMENTATION; WIKI;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

EID: 84900537539     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2559206.2581263     Document Type: Conference Paper

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