Ford, Denae

Taking Flight with Copilot: Early insights and opportunities of AI-powered pair-programming tools

Bird, C., Ford, D., Zimmermann, T., Forsgren, N., Kalliamvakou, E., Lowdermilk, T., & Gazit, I. (2022) · Queue

Software Engineering ResearchSoftware Engineering Techniques and Practices

Cited by 158

Accessibility in Software Practice: A Practitioner’s Perspective

Bi, T., Xia, X., Lo, D., Grundy, J., Zimmermann, T., & Ford, D. (2022) · ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

Digital Accessibility for DisabilitiesSoftware Engineering Techniques and Practices

Cited by 109

Investigating and Designing for Trust in AI-powered Code Generation Tools

Wang, R., Cheng, R., Ford, D., & Zimmermann, T. (2024) · The 2024 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency

Software Engineering ResearchSoftware Engineering Techniques and Practices

Cited by 87

Including Everyone, Everywhere: Understanding Opportunities and Challenges of Geographic Gender-Inclusion in OSS

Prana, G. A. A., Ford, D., Rastogi, A., Lo, D., Purandare, R., & Nagappan, N. (2022) · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Open Source Software InnovationsGender and Technology in Education

Cited by 66

"It would work for me too": How Online Communities Shape Software Developers' Trust in AI-Powered Code Generation Tools

Cheng, R., Wang, R., Zimmermann, T., & Ford, D. (2024) · ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems

Software Engineering ResearchSoftware Engineering Techniques and Practices

Cited by 47

From Lived Experience to Insight: Unpacking the Psychological Risks of Using AI Conversational Agents

Chandra, M., Naik, S., Ford, D., Okoli, E., De Choudhury, M., Ershadi, M., Ramos, G., Hernandez, J., Bhattacharjee, A., Warreth, S., et al. (2025) · Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency

Ethics and Social Impacts of AIDigital Mental Health Interventions

Cited by 44

Characterizing Software Engineering Work with Personas Based on Knowledge Worker Actions

Ford, D., Zimmermann, T., Bird, C., & Nagappan, N. (2017) · 2017 ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM)

Software Engineering Techniques and PracticesPersona Design and Applications

Cited by 37

Ten simple rules for helping newcomers become contributors to open projects

Sholler, D., Steinmacher, I., Ford, D., Averick, M., Hoye, M., & Wilson, G. (2019) · PLOS Computational Biology

Open Source Software InnovationsAcademic Publishing and Open Access

Cited by 35

Make Your Tools Sparkle with Trust: The PICSE Framework for Trust in Software Tools

Johnson, B., Bird, C., Ford, D., Forsgren, N., & Zimmermann, T. (2023) · 2023 IEEE/ACM 45th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Practice (ICSE-SEIP)

Software Engineering Techniques and PracticesSoftware Engineering Research

Cited by 27

Can GPT-4 Replicate Empirical Software Engineering Research?

Liang, J. T., Badea, C., Bird, C., DeLine, R., Ford, D., Forsgren, N., & Zimmermann, T. (2024) · Proceedings of the ACM on Software Engineering

Software Engineering ResearchSoftware Engineering Techniques and Practices

Cited by 19