Dipl.-Inform. Ulrike Abelein - Alumni since 2015

Ulrike Abelein is a PhD Student in the Software Engineering group of Prof. Dr. Barbara Paech, University of Heidelberg, Institute of Computer Science.

She holds a master's degree in Computer Science from Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT) (formerly: University of Karlsruhe)

Research Interests

• Communication with end users in IT-Projects
• Causes of communications gaps in IT-Projects
• Means of communication to integrate end users in large software development
• Granularity of information for end user communication
• Business-IT Alignment

Publications

• Abelein, U, Paech, B (2015). Evaluation of the Simulated Application of the UCD-LSI Method. Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE 2015) at the ICSE 2015 Florence, May 18th, 2015,   (preversion) Paper 
• Abelein, U, Paech, B (2015). Understanding the Influence of User Participation and Involvement on System Success - a Systematic Mapping Study. Journal of Empirical Software Engineering, February 2015, Volume 20, Issue 1, pp 28-81. (preversion) Paper The orginial version is available at springer.com
• Abelein, U, Paech, B (2014). State of Practice of User-Developer Communication in Large-Scale IT Projects. Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (pp. 95-111). Springer International Publishing. Paper The orginial version is available at springer.com
• Abelein, U, Sharp, H, Paech, B (2013). Does Involving Users in Software Development Really Influence System Success?. Software, IEEE, 30(6), 17-23. Paper The orginial version is available at ieeexplore.ieee.org
• Abelein, U, Paech, B (2013). A Descriptive Classification for End User-Relevant Decisions of Large-Scale IT Projects. Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE 2013) at the ICSE 2013 San Francisco, May 25th, 2013, IEEE 2013. Paper Poster The orginial version is available at ieeexplore.ieee.org
• Abelein, U. (2013). Developer-User Communication in Large-Scale IT Projects. In Doctoral Symposium of the 19th International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ’13), Essen (Germany). Paper Poster  The orginial version is available at http://refsq.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Abelein-2013-REFSQ-DS-User-developer-communication-in-large-scale-IT-projects.pdf
• Abelein, U.; Paech, B. 2012, A Proposal for Enhancing User-Developer Communication in Large IT Projects. Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE 2012) at the ICSE 2012 Zurich, June 2nd, 2012, IEEE 2012. Paper Poster The orginial version is available at ieeexplore.ieee.org

• Abelein, U.; Habryn, F.; Becker, A. 2009, Towards a Holistic Framework for Describing and Evaluating Business Benefits of a Service Oriented Architecture. Proceedings of the first Workshop on Service oriented Enterprise Architecture for Enterprise Engineering.