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If anyone wants to get a PhD in this topic, let me know :)

• jdc 8y ago
  Your website is the first I've heard of "Information Foraging" as a field of study. Absolutely fascinating. Any recommendations on where I might dive into the topic?
  • azhenley 8y ago
    A good start that is easy to read would be: An Information Foraging Theory Perspective on Tools for Debugging, Refactoring, and Reuse Tasks https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2430551 https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2430551 The paper applies IFT to software engineering, but IFT has also been applied to navigating websites or even physical offices. Use Scholar.Google.com to find a PDF of the paper if you don't have ACM access.
• mcritz 8y ago
  I was seriously considering this until I remembered something. Didn’t Tennessee pass a law saying they’d stop abortion in the event of rape, incest, even to save the mother’s life? Hard pass.
• yazr 8y ago
  Not for PhD, but for research purposes ;) Can u point out any work on refactoring existing code for reduced code complexity? Obtaining same (non)functional behavior using less code. EDIT: i will read the CodeDeviant paper
  • azhenley 8y ago
    The related work cited in the CodeDeviant paper may help. CodeDeviant itself is a tool to help programmers perform manual refactorings without unit tests (in a visual programming language), so it may not be helpful for you :)