Human Factors in Software Development and Design

• #1. Open Innovation: Assessing the Socio-Economic Factors of Global Software Development
• #2. Innovations in Information and Communication Technology Platforms for Public Administration: Consulting the British Public in the Digital Age
• #3. Software Engineering and New Emerging Technologies: The Involvement of Users for Development Applications for Tablets
• #4. The Games People Play: The Politics of Software Platform Development and ICT Project Design for Public Sector Administration Reform
• #5. Investigating the Success of OSS Software Projects
• #6. Creating Effective Communication among User-Centered Technology Design Groups
• #7. Managing Differences in Situational Awareness Due to Roles in the Design-Use Process of Complex Systems
• #8. Improving Novice Programmers' Skills through Playability and Pattern Discovery: A Descriptive Study of a Game Building Workshop
• #9. Wiki for Agility
• #10. A Semantic Approach for Multi-Agent System Design
• #11. Model to Estimate the Human Factor Quality in FLOSS Development
• #12. From Knowledge Management to Knowledge Governance: A System-Centred Methodology for Designing Indigenous Knowledge Management System
• #13. Usability Evaluation Methods: A Systematic Review
• #14. Personas and Scenarios Based on Functioning and Health Conditions
• #15. Role of Usability in E-Learning System: An Empirical Study of OWASP WebGoat

Saqib Saeed is an assistant professor at the Computer Science department at Bahria University, Islamabad, Pakistan. He has a PhD in Information Systems from the University of Siegen, Germany, and a Master’s degree in Software Technology from Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences, Germany. Dr. Saeed is also a certified software quality engineer from the American Society for Quality. He is a member of advisory boards of several international journals besides being guest editor of several special issues. Dr. Saeed’s research interests lie in the areas of human-centered computing, computer supported cooperative work, empirical software engineering, and ICT4D, and he has more than 50 publications to his credit.

Imran Sarwar Bajwa is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Pakistan. He has worked on various research projects in University of Birmingham, UK (2009-2012) and University of Coimbra, Portugal (2006-2007). His research interests are Natural Language Processing, Automated Software Modelling, Enterprise Computing, and Image Processing.

Zaigham Mahmood is a researcher and author. He has an M.Sc. in Mathematics, M.Sc. in Computer Science, and Ph.D. in Modelling of Phase Equilibria. Dr Mahmood is a Senior Technology Consultant at Debesis Education UK, a researcher at the University of Derby UK, and Professor Extraordinaire at the North West University in South Africa. He is, currently, also a Foreign Professor at NUST Islamabad Pakistan.

Professor Mahmood has published over 100 articles in international journals and conference proceedings in addition to four books on cloud computing and two reference texts on e-government: E-Government Implementation and Practice in Developing Countries and Developing E-Government Projects: Frameworks and Methodologies. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of E-Government Studies and Best Practices and Series Editor-in-Chief of the IGI book series on Advances in Electronic Government, Digital Divide & Regional Development (AEGDDRD).

Professor Mahmood is an active researcher; he also serves as editorial board member of several journals, books and conferences; guest editor for journal special issues; organiser and chair of conference tracks and workshops; and keynote speaker at conferences. His research interests encompass subject areas including e-government studies, project management, software engineering, enterprise computing and cloud computing.