• Program Comprehension
• Programmer Expertise
• fMRI, Eye Tracking and Psycho-Physiological Measures of Programmers' Cognition
• Multi-Modality

2024

• Timon Dörzapf, Norman Peitek, Marvin Wyrich, and Sven Apel. Data Analysis Tools Affect Outcomes of Eye-Tracking Studies. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM). ACM, October 2024. Acceptance rate: 24% (34 / 139); to appear.
   

2022

• Norman Peitek, Annabelle Bergum, Maurice Rekrut, Jonas Mucke, Matthias Nadig, Chris Parnin, Janet Siegmund, and Sven Apel. Correlates of Programmer Efficacy and their Link to Experience: A Combined EEG and Eye-Tracking Study. In Proceedings of the ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE), pages 120–131. ACM, November 2022. Acceptance rate: 22% (99 / 449).
   
• Norman Peitek. A Neuro-Cognitive Perspective of Program Comprehension. PhD thesis, Faculty of Computer Science, University of Technology Chemnitz, May 2022. Dissertation Award of the Chemnitz University of Technology.
   

2021

• Norman Peitek, Sven Apel, Chris Parnin, André Brechmann, and Janet Siegmund. Program Comprehension and Code Complexity Metrics: An fMRI Study. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), pages 524–536. IEEE, May 2021. Acceptance rate: 23% (138 / 602); ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award.
   
• Janet Siegmund, Norman Peitek, Sven Apel, and Norbert Siegmund. Mastering Variation in Human Studies: The Role of Aggregation. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 30(1):2, January 2021.
   

2020

• Norman Peitek, Janet Siegmund, and Sven Apel. What Drives the Reading Order of Programmers? An Eye Tracking Study. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), pages 342–353. ACM, October 2020. Acceptance rate: 38% (32 / 84).
   
• Janet Siegmund, Norman Peitek, André Brechmann, Chris Parnin, and Sven Apel. Studying Programming in the Neuroage: Just a Crazy Idea?. Communications of the ACM (CACM), 63(6):30–34, June 2020.
   
• Norman Peitek, Janet Siegmund, Sven Apel, Christian Kästner, Chris Parnin, Anja Bethmann, Thomas Leich, Gunter Saake, and André Brechmann. A Look into Programmers' Heads. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 46(4):442–462, April 2020.
   

2019

• Jennifer Bauer, Janet Siegmund, Norman Peitek, Johannes Hofmeister, and Sven Apel. Indentation: Simply a Matter of Style or Support for Program Comprehension?. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), pages 154–164. IEEE, May 2019.
   
• Norman Peitek, Sven Apel, André Brechmann, Chris Parnin, and Janet Siegmund. CodersMUSE: Multi-Modal Data Exploration of Program-Comprehension Experiments. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), pages 126–129. IEEE, May 2019.
   

2018

• Norman Peitek, Janet Siegmund, Chris Parnin, Sven Apel, Johannes Hofmeister, and André Brechmann. Simultaneous Measurement of Program Comprehension with fMRI and Eye Tracking: A Case Study. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM), page 24. ACM, October 2018. Acceptance rate: 18% (30 / 164).
   
• Norman Peitek, Janet Siegmund, Chris Parnin, Sven Apel, and André Brechmann. Beyond Gaze: Preliminary Analysis of Pupil Dilation and Blink Rates in an fMRI Study of Program Comprehension. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Eye Movements in Programming (EMIP), page 4. ACM, June 2018.
   
• Norman Peitek, Janet Siegmund, Chris Parnin, Sven Apel, and André Brechmann. Toward Conjoint Analysis of Simultaneous Eye-Tracking and fMRI Data for Program-Comprehension Studies. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Eye Movements in Programming (EMIP), page 1. ACM, June 2018.
   

2017

• Janet Siegmund, Norman Peitek, Chris Parnin, Sven Apel, Johannes Hofmeister, Christian Kästner, Andrew Begel, Anja Bethmann, and André Brechmann. Measuring Neural Efficiency of Program Comprehension. In Proceedings of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE), pages 140–150. ACM, September 2017. Acceptance rate: 24% (72 / 295).