Kind Computing

Faeq Alrimawi, Bashar Nuseibeh

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Abstract

Kindness can boost happiness and wellbeing. It can benefit individuals (e.g., increasing resilience) as well as society (e.g., increasing trust). With digital technology permeating our daily lives, there are increasing opportunities for such technology to enable, mediate, and amplify kindness in society. In this paper, we propose kind computing, a new computing paradigm that explicitly incorporates kindness into the development and use of digital technology. We envisage software engineering as a discipline that can deliver such technology. However, software engineering techniques do not provide explicit abstractions, formalisms, and tools to consider, analyse, and implement software that delivers such technology. With reference to related work, we elaborate on kind computing and the role of software engineering in enabling it, identify open research challenges, elicit three categories of kind computing requirements, and sketch a research agenda for future work.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2022 ACM/IEEE 44th International Conference on Software Engineering
Subtitle of host publicationNew Ideas and Emerging Results, ICSE-NIER 2022
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages61-65
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781665495967
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022
Externally publishedYes
Event44th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering: New Ideas and Emerging Results, ICSE-NIER 2022 - Pittsburgh, United States
Duration: 22 May 202227 May 2022

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering
ISSN (Print)0270-5257

Conference

Conference44th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering: New Ideas and Emerging Results, ICSE-NIER 2022
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityPittsburgh
Period22/05/2227/05/22

Keywords

  • Computing
  • Kindness
  • Software Engineering

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