Biography
Chris Exton holds a BSc in Psychology and a Ph.D. in Computer Science (Monash University, Melbourne). Before he worked in academia he worked in industry in several Software Engineering positions in Australia, Ireland and the UK. He has worked on a number of projects in the area of programmer psychology, software tools and related research methods, and lately in the area of medical decision support systems. He has researched and published in these areas for over 10 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.
Research Interests
Chris Exton holds a BSc in Psychology and a Ph.D. in Computer Science (Monash University, Melbourne). Before he worked in academia he worked in industry in several Software Engineering positions in Australia, Ireland and the UK. He has worked on a number of projects in the area of programmer psychology, software tools and related research methods, and lately in the area of medical decision support systems. He has researched and published in these areas for over 10 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
Book Chapter
Distributed Component Object Model
Thompson, D; Watkins, D; Exton, C; Garrett, L; Sajeev, ASM
Advanced Software Development Series: Information Systems Interoperability
Conference Publication
ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
English M., Exton C., Rigon I., Cleary B.
DOI: 10.1145/1540438.1540462
14TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PROGRAM COMPREHENSION (ICPC 2006), PROCEEDINGS
Desmond, M; Storey, MA; Exton, C
14TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PROGRAM COMPREHENSION (ICPC 2006), PROCEEDINGS
Grandfield, A; Exton, C
3rd IEEE International Workshop on Visualizing Software for Understanding and Analysis, Proceeedings
Cleary, B; Le Gear, A; Exton, C; Buckley, J
STEP 2004 Proceedings - The 12th International Workshop on Software Technology and Engineering Practice
Buckley J., Exton C., Good J.
DOI: 10.1109/STEP.2004.7
2005 International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering (ISESE), Proceedings
Glynn, E; Fitzgerald, B; Exton, C
2005 International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering (ISESE), Proceedings
Carew, D; Exton, C; Buckley, J
13TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON PROGRAM COMPREHENSION, PROCEEDINGS
OShea, P; Exton, C
Architecture Description Languages
Galvin, S; Collins, JJ; Exton, C; McGurren, F
IWPC 2003: 11TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON PROGRAM COMPREHENSION
Buckley, J; Exton, C
Other Journal
Describing Software Visualisation Abstractions
O'Shea, P; Exton, C
PPIG Newletter
Other Publication
Assisting Concept Location in Software Comprehension
Cleary, B; Exton, C
Making a Reuse Aspectual View Explicit in Existing Software
LeGear, A; Cleary, B; Buckley, J; Collins, JJ; Exton, C
An Investigation of Java Abstraction Usage for Program Modifications
O'Shea, P; Exton, C
American Journal Of Physiology-Heart And Circulatory Ph
Application of Helix Cone Tree Visualizations to Dynamic Call Graph Illustration=
Joshi, J; Cleary, B; Exton, C
American Journal Of Physiology-Heart And Circulatory Ph
CHIVE - A Program Source Visualisation Framework
Cleary, B; Exton, C
American Journal Of Physiology-Heart And Circulatory Ph
Eclipse plug-in to monitor the programmer behaviour
McKeogh, J; Exton, C
American Journal Of Physiology-Heart And Circulatory Ph
The Application of Content Analysis to Programmer Mailing Lists as a Requirements Method for a Software Visualisation Tool
O'Shea, P; Exton, C
American Journal Of Physiology-Heart And Circulatory Ph
CORBAview : A visualisation tool to aid in the understanding of CORBA-based distributed applications
Ryan, D; Exton, C
American Journal Of Physiology-Heart And Circulatory Ph
Application of Helix Cone Tree Visualizations to Dynamic Call Graph Illustration
Joshi, J; Cleary, B; Exton, C
PicoVis: A Dynamic Visualisation Tool for Simulating a Bluetooth Communication Environment Enhancing Student Understanding
Doyle, T; Exton, C
American Journal Of Physiology-Heart And Circulatory Ph
THORR - A Focus + Context Method for Visualizing Large Software Systems
McCarthy, E; Exton, C
American Journal Of Tropical Medicine And Hygiene
Enhancing the Role of Interfaces in Software Architecture Description Languages (ADLs)
Galvin, S; Collins, JJ; Exton, C; McGurren, F
American Journal Of Physiology-Heart And Circulatory Ph
Investigating Patterns and Task Type correlations in Open Source Online Mailing Lists
O'Shea, P; Exton, C
American Journal Of Physiology-Heart And Circulatory Ph
Does the empirical evidence support visualisation?
O'Shea, P; Exton, C
American Journal Of Physiology-Heart And Circulatory Ph
Blooms' Taxonomy: A Framework for Assessing Programmers' Knowledge of Software Systems
Buckley, J; Exton, C
American Journal Of Physiology-Heart And Circulatory Ph
Constructivism and Program Comprehension Strategies
Exton, C
American Journal Of Physiology-Heart And Circulatory Ph
COOPE: A Tool for Representing Concurrent Object-Oriented Program Execution through Visualisation
Leroux, H; Exton, C
American Journal Of Physiology-Heart And Circulatory Ph
Towards an Object-Oriented Distributed Programming Environment for Mobile Computing
Schmidt, HW; Sajeev, ASM; Exton, C
American Journal Of Physiology-Heart And Circulatory Ph
Peer Reviewed Journal
To share or not to share: an insight into an academic Community of Practice
Dundon, A., Diggins, Y. and Exton, C.
AISHE-J: The All Ireland Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
A Micro-Crowdsourcing implementation: the Babel Software Project
Chris Exton, Brendan Spillane , Jim Buckley
Localisation Focus
Micro Crowdsourcing: A new Model for Software Localisation
Chris Exton, Asanka Wasala, Jim Buckley, Reinhard Schäler
Localisation Focus
An empirical analysis of information retrieval based concept location techniques in software comprehension
Cleary, B; Exton, C; Buckley, J; English, M
Empirical Software Engineering
DOI: 10.1007/s10664-008-9095-3
Eye tracking technology: A fresh approach in delirium assessment?
Exton, C; Leonard, M
International Review Of Psychiatry
DOI: 10.1080/09540260802675106
Encapsulating targeted component abstractions using software Reflexion Modelling
Buckley, J; LeGear, AP; Exton, C; Cadogan, R; Johnston, T; Looby, B; Koschke, R
Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice
DOI: 10.1002/smr.364
Towards a Framework for Characterising Concurrent Comprehension
Hughes, C; Buckley, J; Exton, C; O'Carroll, D
Computer Science Education