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Erik Trainer

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Publications

Dissertation

• Trainer, E. (2012). "Supporting the Development of Trust in Globally Distributed Software Teams: The Impact of Visualized Collaborative Traces on Perceived Trustworthiness." Ph.D. Dissertation. University of California, Irvine.

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Conference Proceedings

• Trainer, E., Kalyanasundaram, A., Herbsleb, J.D. (2017). E-Mentoring for Software Engineering: A Socio-technical Perspective, In Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2017, Buenos Aires, Argentina), in press.
• Filippova, A., Trainer, E., Herbsleb, J.D. (2017). From Diversity by Numbers to Diversity as Process: Supporting Inclusiveness in Software Teams with Brainstorming, In Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2017, Buenos Aires, Argentina), in press.
• Trainer, E., Kalyanasundaram, A., Chaihirunkarn, C., Herbsleb, J.D. (2016). How to Hackathon: Socio-technical Tradeoffs in Brief, Intensive Collocation, In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer-supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW 2016, San Francisco, CA), pp. 1118-1130.
• Trainer, E., Chaihirunkarn, C., Kalyanasundaram, A., Herbsleb, J.D. (2015). From Personal Tool to Community Resource: What's the Extra Work and Who Will Do It? In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer-supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW 2015, Vancouver, BC, Canada), pp. 417-430.
• Trainer, E., Chaihirunkarn, C., Kalyanasundaram, A., Herblseb, J.D. (2014). Community Code Engagements: Summer of Code & Hackathons for Supporting Community Building in Scientific Software, In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Supporting Group Work (GROUP 2014, Sanibel Island, FL), pp. 111-121.
• Al-Ani, B., Bietz, M., Wang, Y., Trainer, E., Koehne, B., Marczak, S., Redmiles, D.F., Prikladnicki, R. (2013). Globally Distributed System Developers: Their Trust Expectations and Processes, In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer-supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2013, San Antonio, TX), pp. 563-573.
• Al-Ani B., Wang, Y., Marczak, S., Trainer, E., and Redmiles, D. (2012). Distributed Development Teams and Non-Use of the Web 2.0 Technologies: A Proclivity Framework, In Proceedings of the International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE 2012, Porto Alegre, Brazil), pp. 104-113.
• Trainer, E. and Redmiles, D.F. (2012). Foundations for the Design of Visualizations that Support Trust in Distributed Teams, In Proceedings of the International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI 2012, Capri Island, Italy), pp. 34-41.
• Al-Ani, B., Trainer, E., Redmiles, D., and Simmons, E. (2012). Trust and Surprise in Distributed Teams: Towards an Understanding of Expectations and Adaptations, In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Intercultural Collaboration (ICIC 2012, Bengaluru, India), pp. 97-106.
• Trainer, E., Quirk, S., de Souza, C.R.B., and Redmiles, D.F. (2008). Analyzing a Socio-Technical Visualization Tool Using Usability Inspection Methods, In Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human Centric Computing (VL/HCC 2008, Herrsching am Ammersee, Germany), pp. 78-81.
• de Souza, C.R.B., Quirk, S., Trainer, E., and Redmiles, D.F. (2007). Supporting Collaborative Software Development through the Visualization of Socio-Technical Dependencies, In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Supporting Group Work (GROUP 2007, Sanibel Island, FL), pp. 147-156.

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Workshop and Position Papers

• Trainer, E. (2016). Hackathons, Codefests, and Sprints: A Case for Attention in CSCW on Community Coding Events, Research "Boaster" Presented at Human Computer Interaction Consortium Workshop (HCIC 2016, Watsonville, CA), 8 pp.
• Trainer, E. and Herbsleb, J.D. (2014). Beyond Code: Prioritizing Issues, Sharing Knowledge, and Establishing Identity at Hackathons for Science, In Workshop on Sharing, Re-Use and Circulation of Resources in Cooperative Scientific Work, held in conjunction with the ACM Conference on Computer-supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2014, Baltimore, MD), 2 pp.
• Trainer, E., Chaihirunkarn, C., Herbsleb, J.D. (2013). The Big Effects of Short-term Efforts: A Catalyst for Community Engagement in Scientific Software, In Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practices and Experiences (WSSSPE), held in conjunction with the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC 2013, Denver, CO), 4 pp.
• Wang, Y., Trainer, E., Al-Ani, B., Redmiles, D., and Marczak, S. (2012). Attitude and Usage of Collaboration Tools in GSE: A Practitioner Oriented Theory, In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE), held in conjunction with the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2012, Zurich, Switzerland), pp. 135-137.
• Al-Ani, B., Marczak, S., Trainer, E., Redmiles, D., and Prikladnicki, R. (2012). Distributed Developers' Perspectives of Web 2.0 Technologies in Supporting the Development of Trust, In The Future of Collaborative Software Development Workshop, held in conjunction with the ACM Conference on Computer-supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2012, Seattle, WA), 3 pp.
• Trainer, E., Al-Ani, B., and Redmiles, D.F. (2011). Impact of Collaborative Traces on Trustworthiness, In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE), held in conjunction with the International Conference on Software Engineering(ICSE 2011, Honolulu, HI), pp. 40-47.
• Trainer, E. (2008). Connecting the Social and Technical Aspects of Computing with Visualization, In Doctoral Consortium of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human Centric Computing (VL/HCC 2008, Herrsching am Ammersee, Germany), pp. 272-273.
• Trainer, E. and Redmiles, D.F. (2008). Towards an Infrastructure for Software Visualization Research, In International Workshop on Infrastructure for Research in Collaborative Software Engineering (IReCoSE), held in conjunction with the International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2008, Atlanta, GA), available at http://home.segal.uvic.ca/~IRCoSE-2008/.
• Al-Ani, B., Trainer, E., Ripley, R., Sarma, A., van der Hoek, A., Redmiles, D.F. (2008). Continuous Coordination within the Context of Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering, In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE), held in conjunction with the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2008, Leipzig, Germany), pp. 1-4.
• Al-Ani, B., Sarma, A., Bortis, G., Almeida da Silva, I., Trainer, E., van der Hoek, A., Redmiles, D. (2006). Continuous Coordination (CC): A New Collaboration Paradigm, In Proceedings of the Workshop on Supporting the Social Side of Large Scale Software Development, held in conjunction with the ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2006, Banff, Alberta, Canada), pp. 4-10.
• Trainer, E., Quirk, S., de Souza, C. R. B., Redmiles, D.F. (2005). Bridging the Gap between Technical and Social Dependencies with Ariadne, In Proceedings of the OOPSLA Workshop on Eclipse Technology Exchange (ETX 2005, San Diego, CA), pp. 26-30.
• de Souza, C.R.B., Dourish, P., Redmiles, D.F., Quirk, S., and Trainer, E. (2004). From Technical Dependencies to Social Dependencies, In Proceedings of the Workshop on Social Networks, held in conjunction with the ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2004, Chicago, IL), available at http://www.ischool.washington.edu/mcdonald/cscw04/.

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Journals

• Trainer. E, Chaihirunkarn, C., Herbsleb, J.D. (2014). The Big Effects of Short-term Efforts: Mentorship and Code Integration in Open Source Scientific Software, Journal of Open Research Software, vol. 2, no. 1, 2014, available at http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/jors.bc.
• Al-Ani, B., Redmiles, D.F., van der Hoek, A., Alvim, M., da Silva, I., Mangano, N., Trainer, E., Sarma, A. (2008). Continuous Coordination within Software Engineering Teams: Concepts and Tool Support, Journal of Computer Science and Engineering in Arabic: special issue on Software Engineering, vol. 1, no. 3, 2008, pp. 10-33.
• Redmiles, D., van der Hoek, A., Al-Ani, B., Hildenbrand, T., Quirk, S., Sarma, A., Silveira Silva Filho, R., de Souza, C., Trainer, E. (2007). Continuous Coordination: A New Paradigm to Support Globally Distributed Software Development Projects, Wirtschaftsinformatik, Special Issue on the Industrialization of Software Development, vol. 49, 2007, pp. 28-38.

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Book Chapters

• Sarma, A., Al-Ani, B., Trainer, E., Silva Filho, R.S., da Silva, I., Redmiles, D., van der Hoek, A. Continuous Coordination Tools and their Evaluation, in I. Mistrik, J. Grundy, A. van der Hoek, J. Whitehead (eds.), Collaborative Software Engineering, Springer, Ch. 8, pp. 153-178.

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Technical Reports

• Trainer, E., Quirk, S., de Souza, C.R.B., and Redmiles, D.F. (2012). Usability Inspection Method-based Analysis of a Socio-Technical Visualization Tool, Technical Report UCI-ISR-12-6. University of California, Irvine, Institute for Software Research.
• Trainer, E. and Redmiles, D.F. (2010). Initial Successes and Failures Prototyping Socio-technical Visualizations Using a Collaboration Infrastructure, Technical Report UCI-ISR-10-5. University of California, Irvine, Institute for Software Research.
• Trainer, E. and Redmiles, D.F. (2009). A Survey of Visualization Tools that Promote Awareness of Software Development Activities, Technical Report UCI-ISR-09-5. University of California, Irvine, Institute for Software Research.

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Professional Presentations

• Trainer, E., Chaihirunkarn, C., Kalyanasundaram, A., Herbsleb, J.D. (2014). Hackathons for Scientific Software: How and When do they Work? Presentation at Science of Team Science Conference (SciTS 2014, Bethesda, MD). [PPT Presentation]