TY - GEN
T1 - Kind Computing
AU - Alrimawi, Faeq
AU - Nuseibeh, Bashar
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 IEEE.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Computing
KW - Kindness
KW - Software Engineering
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85132996513&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ICSE-NIER55298.2022.9793532
DO - 10.1109/ICSE-NIER55298.2022.9793532
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85132996513
T3 - Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering
SP - 61
EP - 65
BT - Proceedings - 2022 ACM/IEEE 44th International Conference on Software Engineering
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 44th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering: New Ideas and Emerging Results, ICSE-NIER 2022
Y2 - 22 May 2022 through 27 May 2022
ER -