Publications

Bergum, A., Maurer, A.-M., Peitek, N., Bader, R., Mecklinger, A., Demberg, V., Siegmund, J., & Apel, S. (2024). Unexpected but Informative: What Fixation-Related Potentials Tell Us about the Processing of Ambiguous Program Code.
Hartmann, E. M., Bergum, A., Gorgosch, D., Peitek, N., Apel, S., & Siegmund, J. (2024). Tapping into the Natural Language System with Artificial Languages when Learning Programming.
Dörzapf, T., Peitek, N., Wyrich, M., & Apel, S. (2024). Data Analysis Tools Affect Outcomes of Eye-Tracking Studies. Proc. Int’l Symposium Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM), 96–106.

Peitek, N. (2023). Eine neurokognitive Perspektive auf Programmverständnis. In Ausgezeichnete Informatikdissertationen 2022 (Band D23) (pp. 211–220). Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.

Peitek, N. (2022). A Neuro-Cognitive Perspective of Program Comprehension [PhD thesis]. University of Technology Chemnitz.
Peitek, N., Bergum, A., Rekrut, M., Mucke, J., Nadig, M., Parnin, C., Siegmund, J., & Apel, S. (2022). Correlates of Programmer Efficacy and Their Link to Experience: A Combined EEG and Eye-Tracking Study. Proc. Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering.

Peitek, N., Apel, S., Parnin, C., Brechmann, A., & Siegmund, J. (2021). Program Comprehension and Code Complexity Metrics: An fMRI Study. ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award. In Proc. Int’l Conf. Software Engineering (ICSE). ACM.
Siegmund, J., Peitek, N., Apel, S., & Siegmund, N. (2021). Mastering Variation in Human Studies: The Role of Aggregation. Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol. (TOSEM), 30(1).
Aqeel, A., Peitek, N., Apel, S., Mucke, J., & Siegmund, J. (2021). Understanding Comprehension of Iterative and Recursive Programs with Remote Eye Tracking. Annual Conf. Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG), 1–17.
Neumann, A., Peitek, N., Brechmann, A., Tabelow, K., & Dickhaus, T. (2021). Utilizing Anatomical Information for Signal Detection in Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging. WIAS Preprints.

Siegmund, J., Peitek, N., Brechmann, A., Parnin, C., & Apel, S. (2020). Studying Programming in the Neuroage: Just a Crazy Idea? Communications of the ACM.
Peitek, N., Siegmund, J., & Apel, S. (2020). What Drives the Reading Order of Programmers? An Eye Tracking Study. In Proc. Int’l Conf. Program Comprehension (ICPC) (pp. 342–353). ACM.
Peitek, N., Siegmund, J., Apel, S., Kästner, C., Parnin, C., Bethmann, A., Leich, T., Saake, G., & Brechmann, A. (2020). A Look into Programmers’ Heads. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 46(4), 442–462.

Bauer, J., Siegmund, J., Peitek, N., Hofmeister, J., & Apel, S. (2019). Indentation: Simply a Matter of Style or Support for Program Comprehension? Proc. Int’l Conference Program Comprehension (ICPC), 154–164.
Peitek, N., Apel, S., Brechmann, A., Parnin, C., & Siegmund, J. (2019). CodersMUSE: Multi-Modal Data Exploration of Program-Comprehension Experiments. Best Tool Demo Award. Proc. Int’l Conference Program Comprehension (ICPC), 126–129.

Peitek, N., Siegmund, J., Parnin, C., Apel, S., Hofmeister, J., & Brechmann, A. (2018). Simultaneous Measurement of Program Comprehension with fMRI and Eye Tracking: A Case Study. Proc. Int’l Symposium Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM), 24:1–24:10.
Peitek, N., Siegmund, J., Parnin, C., Apel, S., & Brechmann, A. (2018). Beyond Gaze: Preliminary Analysis of Pupil Dilation and Blink Rates in an fMRI Study of Program Comprehension. Proc. Int’l Workshop on Eye Movements in Programming, 4:1–4:5.
Peitek, N., Siegmund, J., Parnin, C., Apel, S., & Brechmann, A. (2018). Toward Conjoint Analysis of Simultaneous Eye-Tracking and fMRI Data for Program-Comprehension Studies. Proc. Int’l Workshop on Eye Movements in Programming, 1:1–1:5.
Peitek, N., Siegmund, J., Parnin, C., Apel, S., Hofmeister, J., Kästner, C., Begel, A., Bethmann, A., & Brechmann, A. (2018). Neural Efficiency of Top-Down Program Comprehension. Proc. of Software Engineering (SE), 151–152.
Peitek, N. (2018). A Neuro-Cognitive Perspective of Program Comprehension. Companion Proc. of Int’l Conf. on Software Engineering, 496–499.

Siegmund, J., Peitek, N., Parnin, C., Apel, S., Hofmeister, J., Kästner, C., Begel, A., Bethmann, A., & Brechmann, A. (2017). Measuring Neural Efficiency of Program Comprehension. Proc. Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering, 140–150.
Parnin, C., Siegmund, J., & Peitek, N. (2017). On the Nature of Programmer Expertise. Proc. Annual Conf. Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG), 109–118.
Peitek, N., Siegmund, J., & Brechmann, A. (2017). Enhancing fMRI Studies of Program Comprehension with Eye-Tracking. In Proc. Int’l Workshop on Eye Movements in Programming (pp. 22–23). Freie Universität Berlin.
Hofmeister, J., Bauer, J., Siegmund, J., Apel, S., & Peitek, N. (2017). Comparing Novice and Expert Eye Movements during Program Comprehension. In Proc. Int’l Workshop on Eye Movements in Programming (pp. 17–18). Freie Universität Berlin.

Neumann, R., Peitek, N., & Cuadrado-Gallego, J. J. (2012). Geopointing on Indoor Maps: Enhancing Compass Sensor Accuracy to Enable Interactive Digital Object Selection in Smartphone-Based Map Applications. Proc. Int’l Symposium on Mobility Management and Wireless Access, 63–70.