Human Values Dashboard
A web tool that visualises how human values manifest in software repository artefacts.
Overview
The Human Values Dashboard is a web-based analytical tool that visualises how human values are expressed in software repository artefacts such as issues, commits, and discussions. It grew out of my doctoral research at Monash University as a proof-of-concept for automated human values detection.
Motivation
Human values — things like security, self-direction, or social justice — surface implicitly in the text developers write while building software, but they are rarely made visible or tracked. The dashboard demonstrates that these signals can be detected automatically and surfaced back to a team in an interpretable way.
What it does
- Applies automated human values detection to software development artefacts.
- Aggregates the results into a dashboard so that the presence and distribution of values across a repository can be inspected visually.
- Serves as a demonstration vehicle for the detection methods developed during the underlying research.
Related publications
- Human values in software development artefacts — Information and Software Technology.
- A human values dashboard for software development — Empirical Software Engineering, 2023.
- Towards a human values operationalisation review — IEEE Access, 2022.
Status
The live instance is temporarily unavailable due to ongoing server maintenance.