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Supporting Brainstorming Activities with Bots in Software Engineering Education

Farah, Juan Carlos  
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La Scala, Jérémy Alain  
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Ingram, Sandy  
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2025
Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Bots in Software Engineering
6th International Workshop on Bots in Software Engineering
47th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering

The recent rise in the performance and availability of large language models (LLMs) has fueled the adoption of generative artificial intelligence (AI) to support software engineering. Technologies such as Copilot and ChatGPT have become ubiquitous in software engineering, both in academic and professional settings. Nevertheless, the effects of such technologies on how engineers collaborate to build software are relatively unknown, raising questions regarding the impact they have on computer-supported collaborative work (CSCW). To explore these effects, we conducted a within-subjects empirical case study with 24 undergraduate software engineering students. Students were divided into seven groups, completing four brainstorming tasks related to a software engineering project for a course on frontend development. For each group, two of the tasks were supported by LLM-powered bots, while the other two tasks did not include bots. Our findings show that when the brainstorming process was supported by bots, students proposed significantly fewer ideas and reported significantly less sense of authorship and sense of responsibility with respect to the ideas selected for implementation. These results motivate the need for frameworks to guide how software engineers collaborate with AI-powered technologies.

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conference paper
Author(s)
Farah, Juan Carlos  

EPFL

La Scala, Jérémy Alain  

EPFL

Ingram, Sandy  

EPFL

Gillet, Denis  

EPFL

Date Issued

2025

Published in
Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Bots in Software Engineering
Subjects

software engineering

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bots

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large language models

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education

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brainstorming

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CSCW

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Conference's website

http://botse.org/
Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

EPFL units
SCI-STI-DG  
AVP-E-LEARN  
Event nameEvent acronymEvent placeEvent date
6th International Workshop on Bots in Software Engineering

BotSE 2025

Ottawa, Canada

2025-04-27

47th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering

ICSE 2025

Ottawa, Canada

2025-04-27 - 2025-05-03

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April 22, 2025
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/246663.2
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