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A professional career with Autism: findings from a Literature review in the Software engineering domain

MacMahon, Silvana Togneri ORCID: 0000-0003-0179-2436, Costello, Emma, Kilbride, Sara, Milne, Zoe, Clarke, Paul ORCID: 0000-0002-4487-627X, Yilmaz, Murat ORCID: 0000-0002-2446-3224 and MacMahon, Silvana Togneri ORCID: 0000-0003-0179-2436 (2021) A professional career with Autism: findings from a Literature review in the Software engineering domain. In: 28th European Conference on Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement. (EuroSPI 2021), 1-3 Sept 2021, Krems, Austria. ISBN 978-303085520-8

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Abstract

Autistic individuals possess many unique skills that are beneficial to the workforce, especially the technology industry. However, research shows the unemployment rate is still considerably high among the autistic population compared to their neurotypical peers. It has been suggested that some autistic individuals may excel in software engineering roles. This paper presents a Multivocal Literature Review (MLR) to highlight the cognitive style and talents of individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). An analysis is carried out to fully understand the challenges faced by autistic individuals transitioning into the workplace while also highlighting the challenges faced in their day to day working life. These challenges include workplace environments as well as workplace ceremonies, including, for example, daily stand-up meetings. Many neurotypical software engineers, software engineering firms and academics can benefit from this information as they work towards a more inclusive and more effective software engineering community.

Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Event Type:Conference
Refereed:Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:Diseases; Employment; Process engineering; Software engineering; Neurodiversity
Subjects:UNSPECIFIED
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Computing
Research Initiatives and Centres > Lero: The Irish Software Engineering Research Centre
Published in: EuroSPI 2021: Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement. Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) 1442. Springer. ISBN 978-303085520-8
Publisher:Springer
Official URL:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85521-5_23
Copyright Information:© 2021 Springer
Funders:Science Foundation Ireland grant 13/RC/2094_2, European Regional Development Fund through the Southern & Eastern Regional Operational Programme
ID Code:26829
Deposited On:24 Mar 2022 16:41 by Vidatum Academic . Last Modified 12 Sep 2022 14:19

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