Research

Dr. Frank Maurer is the head of the Agile Software Engineering (ase) group at the University of Calgary. His research interests are

• agile software methodologies
• engineering digital table applications
• executable acceptance test driven development
• integrating agile methods and interaction design
• framework and API usability
• tools for agile teams, specifically for globally distributed software development
• experience and knowledge management

More information about his research can be found at the web site of the Agile Software Engineering research group. Currently, the group focuses on empirical investigations of agile techniques as well as on tool development for agile software teams. Recent publications are available at the group's web library web library.

The ebe Group closely collaborates with industrial and acedemic partners to ensure the business relevance of the research.

He is a member of the Agile Alliance, a Certified Scrum Master, a founding member of the Canadian Agile Network (CAN) - Le Réseau Agile Canadien (RAC), part of the organizers of the Calgary Agile Methods Users Group and Asscoiate Editor of IEEE Software responsible for the Process and Practices area.

Beside working on research and development, I'm interested in arts, specifically: photography. See Uninspired Design for more.

News

NSERC SurfNet was officially announced on February 2, 2010. The official project start date is March 1.

At the NCE meeting in Ottawa on Dec 1, I was able to get my astronaut number to 1. Julie Payette, a Canadian Astronaut, was giving an inspirational keynote about her travel to space and I was able to shake her hand. That is probably the closest that I will ever get to space.

The NSERC SurfNet Network is a Canadian research alliance of academic researchers, industry partners, and government collaborators and I have the priviledge to serve as its principal investigator. The goal of SurfNet is to improve the development, performance, and usability of software applications for surface computing environments: non- traditional digital display surfaces including multi-touch screens, tabletops, and wall-sized displays. NSERC SurfNet will officially start in Spring 2010.

In September 2009, I became a TRLabs Scientist.

Prospective Students

We If you are interested in joining the Agile Software Engineering research group for an undergrad project or graduate research, please look at the New Projects Page.

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Conferences and Workshop

International Conference on Software Process (ICSP'2010), Paderborn, Germany, July 8-9, 2010.

7th International Summer School on Software Engineering, July 5 - 9, 2010 - University of Salerno, Italy.

4th International Conference on Software – Science, Technology & Engineering (SwSTE 2010), Herzliyah, Israel, June 15-16, 2010.

ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems, Berlin, Germany - June 21-23, 2010

Other conferences and workshops

Contact

Dr Frank Maurer, ITCP
University of Calgary
Department of Computer Science
2500 University Drive NW
Calgary, Alberta,T2N 1N4
Canada
frank.maurer@ucalgary.ca
P: (403) 220 5454
P: (403) 220 3531
F: (403) 284 4707
Office: ICT Room 550