This is the system used for the study that investigated whether there is a difference in how people react emotionally to different types of words, depending on the professional context.
The sysem allows to assess the emotions posed by the words, as if they occurred in bug tracking systems, commits' descriptions or comments in the source code of the application.
The emotions evaluation is conducted using SAM figures. SAM shows three different kinds of feelings: Happy vs. Unhappy (top), Excited vs. Calm (middle), and Controlled vs. In-control (bottom).
This study was conducted by Michał Wróbel, Assistant Professor of the Departament of Software Engineeting, Gdańsk University of Technology. It is part of the exampleresearch on role of the emotions in software development process. The instruction for participants was based on Bradley, Margaret M., and Peter J. Lang. Affective norms for English words (ANEW): Instruction manual and affective ratings. Technical Report C-1, The Center for Research in Psychophysiology, University of Florida, 1999.
The system can be used freely in accordance with the terms of the MIT licence.