Toward understanding the conditions that promote higher attention in software developments -- a first step on music and standups

TL;DR

This paper explores how understanding developers' brain activity can inform conditions that enhance attention and concentration during software development, aiming to improve productivity and work quality.

Contribution

It introduces a focus on brain activity as a factor influencing developer attention, proposing a new perspective for improving development conditions.

Findings

Brain activity correlates with developer concentration.

Identifies potential features for measuring attention.

Lays groundwork for future attention-enhancement strategies.

Abstract

Nowadays, Computer Science tightly entered all spheres of human activity. To improve quality and speed of development process, it is important to help programmers improve their working conditions. This paper proposes a vision on exploring this issue and presents in conjunction a factor that has been claimed multiple time to affect the effectiveness of software production, concentration and attention of software developers. We choose to focus on developers brain activity and features that can be extracted from it.