Chris Exton

Academic

University of Limerick

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Dr. Chris Exton is currently a lecturer in the department of Computer Science and Information Systems at University of Limerick. He holds a B.Sc. in Psychology and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Monash University, Melbourne. He has worked extensively in the commercial software development field in a variety of different industries and countries included Software Engineering positions in Australia, Ireland and the UK, where he has worked in a number of diverse companies from electronic manufacturing to banking. In addition his academic positions includes a number of Schools and Departments including Monash University Australia, University College Dublin and Uppsala University, Sweden. He has worked on a number of research projects in the area of programmer psychology and software tools and more recently in the area of medical decision support systems. He has researched and published in these areas for over 15 years, as well as taking an active role as a reviewer for the International Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution and The Software Quality Journal.

Publications

2019

Razzaq A, Le Gear A, Exton C, Buckley J. 2019. An empirical assessment of baseline feature location techniques. Empirical Software Engineering.

2018

Campbell MJ, Toth A, Moran AP, Kowal M, Exton C. 2018. eSports: A new window on neurocognitive expertise? Sport and the Brain: The Science of Preparing, Enduring and Winning, Part C. 240:161-174.

Razzaq A, Wasala A, Exton C, Buckley J. 2018. The State of Empirical Evaluation in Static Feature Location. ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.. 28:2:1–2:58.

Kowal M, Toth A, Exton C, Campbell M. 2018. Different cognitive abilities displayed by action video gamers and non-gamers . Computers in Human Behavior. 88:255-262.

Dantas R, Exton C, LeGear A. 2018. Bandwidth performance analysis of Mobile VoIP Solutions. 43rd International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science .

Dantas R, Exton C, Le Gear A. 2018. Comparing Network Performance of Mobile VoIP Solutions. 2018 6th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Cloud Computing, Services, and Engineering (MobileCloud).

Buckley J, DeWille T, Exton C, Exton G, Murray L. 2018. A Gamification–Motivation Design Framework for Educational Software Developers. Journal of Educational Technology Systems. 47:004723951878315.

2016

Buckley J, Rosik J, Herold S, Wasala A, Botterweck G, Exton C. 2016. FLINTS: A Tool for Architectural-level Modeling of Features in Software Systems. Proccedings of the 10th European Conference on Software Architecture Workshops.

2015

Sharif K.Y, English M, Ali N, Exton C, Collins J.J., Buckley J. 2015. An empirically-based characterization and quantification of information seeking through mailing lists during Open Source developers’ software evolution. Information and Software Technology. 57(1)

Sharif KY, English M, Ali N, Exton C, Collins J.J., Buckley J. 2015. An empirically-based characterization and quantification of information seeking through mailing lists during Open Source developers’ software evolution. Information and Software Technology. 57