Publications

2026

Michaels, E., Wallace, R., Robison, M., Huang, Y., McMillan, C., “Human Attention During Localization of Memory Bugs in C Programs”, in ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), accepted. [arXiv] [data/code]

Dhakal, M., Su, C., Wallace, R., Fakhimi, C., Bansal, A., Li, T., Huang, Y., McMillan, C., “A Grounded Theory Study to Guide AI-Driven Code Comment Improvement”, in Journal of Software: Evolution and Process (JSEP), accepted.

Fang, Z., Wallace, R., Karas, Z., Li., T., McMillan, C., Huang, Y., “Investigating the Feasibility of Conducting Webcam-Based Eye-Tracking Studies in Code Comprehension”, in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), accepted. [data]

2025

McLoughlin, S., Karas, Z., Wallace, R., Bansal, A., McMillan, C., Huang, Y., “Programmers’ Visual Attention on Function Call Graphs During Code Summarization”, in 40th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE ‘25), Nov. 16 - 20, 2025. ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award. [pdf] [data]

Wallace, R., Bansal, A., Karas, Z., Tang, N., Huang, Y., Li, T., McMillan, C., “Programmer Visual Attention During Context-Aware Code Summarization” in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 51, no. 05, pp. 1524-1537, May 2025 [arXiv] [data]

2019

Wallace, R., McMillan, C., “EyeDoc: Documentation Navigation with Eye Tracking”, University of Notre Dame Technical Report, Notre Dame, IN, March 4, 2019. [arXiv]