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Overcoming public speaking anxiety of software engineers using virtual reality exposure therapy.

Nazligul, Merve Denizci, Yilmaz, Murat orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-2446-3224, Güleç, Ulaş orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-6084-3590, Ali Gozcu, Mert, O'Connor, Rory orcid logoORCID: 0000-0001-9253-0313 and Clarke, Paul orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-4487-627X (2017) Overcoming public speaking anxiety of software engineers using virtual reality exposure therapy. In: 24th European Conference on Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement (EuroSPI 2017), 6-8 Sept 2017, Ostrava, Czech Republic. ISBN 978-3-319-64218-5

Abstract
Public speaking anxiety is a type of social phobia, which might be commonly seen in novice software engineers. It is usually triggered by a fear of social performance especially when the performer is unfamiliar with the audience. Today, many software engineering activities (e.g. code inspection, peer review, daily meetings, etc.) require social gatherings where individuals need to present their work. However, novice software engineers may not be able to reduce their performance anxiety during their course of education. In this study, we propose a vir- tual reality approach to construct a practice environment for improving novice software engineers’ pubic speaking experiences. Consequently, we examine the effects of virtual reality intervention on the public speaking experience of six novice software engineers from a computer engineering department. We designed a virtual auditorium to simulate the presentation delivery environment and findings suggest that using this infrastructre for training purposes can reduce presenter anxiety levels which is consistent with related published studies. We believe that this virtual auditorium environment can deliver benefits for students and practitioners alike in terms of addressing the anxiety that is often associated with early stage career presenters
Metadata
Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Event Type:Conference
Refereed:Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:Virtual reality; Public speaking anxiety; Personal process improvement
Subjects:Computer Science > Software engineering
DCU Faculties and Centres:Research Initiatives and Centres > Lero: The Irish Software Engineering Research Centre
DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Computing
Published in: Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement. Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) 748. Springer. ISBN 978-3-319-64218-5
Publisher:Springer
Official URL:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64218-5_15
Copyright Information:© 2017 Springer. The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com
Use License:This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License
ID Code:22020
Deposited On:21 Sep 2017 12:20 by Rory O'connor . Last Modified 23 Oct 2019 13:07
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