Academic Writing

Peer-reviewed articles, working papers, and other scholarly pieces.

Last updated: July 2026. For the most up-to-date list, see my Google Scholar profile.

• Taking a Pulse on How Generative AI is Reshaping the Software Engineering Research Landscape
  Bianca Trinkenreich, Fabio Calefato, Kelly Blincoe, Viggo Tellefsen Wivestad, Antonio Pedro Santos Alves, Júlia Condé Araújo, Marina Condé Araújo, Paolo Tell, Marcos Kalinowski, Thomas Zimmermann, Margaret-Anne Storey · arXiv preprint (arXiv:2604.11184) · April 2026
  A survey of 457 software engineering researchers on how generative AI is used across research activities, with taxonomies of use cases, risks, mitigation strategies, and governance needs.
• Developer Productivity With and Without GitHub Copilot: A Longitudinal Mixed-Methods Case Study
  Viktoria Stray, Elias Goldmann Brandtzæg, Viggo Tellefsen Wivestad, Astri Barbala, Nils Brede Moe · HICSS-59: 59th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences · January 2026
  A longitudinal mixed-methods case study at NAV IT analyzing 26,317 commits from 703 repositories over two years, comparing Copilot users and non-users. Received the Best Paper Award in the Software Technology Track.
• Human-AI Collaboration in Software Development: A Mixed-Methods Study of Developers' Use of GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT
  Viktoria Stray, Astri Barbala, Viggo Tellefsen Wivestad · FSE Companion '25: 33rd ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering · June 2025
  A mixed-methods study of how developers use GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT in their day-to-day work, and how the two tools support different parts of the development process.
• Attitudes Towards LLM Use Among Software Engineering Researchers: Results From A Two-Phase Survey Study
  Viggo Tellefsen Wivestad, Astri Moksnes Barbala · FSE Companion '25: 33rd ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering · June 2025
  A two-phase survey study of software engineering researchers' attitudes towards using large language models in their own research practice.
• Generative AI in the Workplace: Affective Affordances and Employee Flourishing
  Astri Barbala, Rasmus Ulfsnes, Viggo Tellefsen Wivestad, Viktoria Stray · HICSS-58: 58th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences · January 2025
  Based on interviews with 30 employees across four tech-intensive companies, this study examines the emotional dimensions of generative AI use at work and its potential to support employee flourishing.
• Copilot's Island of Joy: Balancing Individual Satisfaction with Team Interaction in Agile Development
  Viggo Tellefsen Wivestad, Astri Barbala, Viktoria Stray · XP 2024 Workshops – Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming (Springer LNBIP) · June 2024
  Explores how GitHub Copilot affects individual developer satisfaction and team interaction in agile development, and the tension between the two.
• A Journey Through SPACE: Unpacking the Perceived Productivity of GitHub Copilot
  Viggo Tellefsen Wivestad, Rasmus Ulfsnes · XP 2024 Workshops – Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming (Springer LNBIP) · June 2024
  A cross-sectional survey using the SPACE framework to examine how developers in two large-scale agile organizations perceived changes in productivity after the introduction of GitHub Copilot.