A Grounded Theory Study of Programming in Artist-Programmer Collaborations

  • Authors:

  • Greg Turner;Alastair Weakley;Yun Zhang;Ernest Edmonds

  • Affiliations:

  • Institute for Information and Communication Technologies, Creativity and Cognition Studios, Faculty of IT, University of Technology, Sydney, PO Box 123, Broadway NSW, Australia;Institute for Information and Communication Technologies, Creativity and Cognition Studios, Faculty of IT, University of Technology, Sydney, PO Box 123, Broadway NSW, Australia;Institute for Information and Communication Technologies, Creativity and Cognition Studios, Faculty of IT, University of Technology, Sydney, PO Box 123, Broadway NSW, Australia;Institute for Information and Communication Technologies, Creativity and Cognition Studios, Faculty of IT, University of Technology, Sydney, PO Box 123, Broadway NSW, Australia

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2005 conference on New Trends in Software Methodologies, Tools and Techniques: Proceedings of the fourth SoMeT_W05
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

This paper presents findings from a grounded theory study of the social and technical roles of programmers in art-technology collaborations. The process of 'attuning' between the actors and artefacts involved is a recurring theme in our study and one that we think is central to transdisciplinary collaboration and for non programmer-focussed software development. We reflect on the use of grounded theory to study software engineering social processes and conclude that the methodology can bring designers and researchers rich theoretical understandings that can be used to develop new tools to support different types of software engineering.