Publications

You can also find my articles on Google Scholar. Ordered by year (newest first).

2026
In-Situ Immersive Analytics Authoring through Ergonomic Keyboard Support
Leonel Merino, Begoña Juliá-Nehme, and Santiago Viana
International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 2026
Journal ✦ Accepted
On the use of extended reality to support software development activities: A systematic literature review
Tiara Rojas-Stambuk, Juan Pablo Sandoval Alcocer, Leonel Merino, and Andres Neyem
Information and Software Technology, page 107999, 2026
Journal WoS Q1 Elsevier
2025
Metaverse security and privacy research: A systematic review
Argianto Rahartomo, Leonel Merino, and Mohammad Ghafari
Computers & Security, 157:104602, 2025
Journal WoS Q1 Elsevier
Collaborative scenario experimentation for strategy formulation to shape desirable futures
Paula Wuth, Ricardo J Hernández, Leonel Merino, Sebastian Negrete, and Ignacio Pavez
Research-Technology Management, 68(6):73–91, 2025
Journal WoS Q2 Taylor & Francis
The dilemma of privacy protection for developers in the metaverse
Argianto Rahartomo, Leonel Merino, Yoshiki Ohshima, and Mohammad Ghafari
IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW), pp. 284–290, 2025
Workshop Preprint
2024
GitTruck@ Duck — Interactive time range selection in hierarchy-oriented polymetric visualization of Git repository evolution
Adrian Hoff, Thomas Hoffmann Kilbak, Leonel Merino, and Mircea Lungu
IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME), pp. 853–857, 2024
Conference CORE A IEEE
Speculative labs: Shaping future management practices through collaborative scenario experimentation
Paula Wuth, Ricardo J Hernandez, Leonel Merino, and Sebastián Negrete
Touchpoint, 14(3), 2024
Journal
A developer's guide to building and testing accessible mobile apps
Juan Pablo Sandoval Alcocer, Leonel Merino, Alison Fernandez-Blanco, William Ravelo-Mendez, Camilo Escobar-Velásquez, and Mario Linares-Vásquez
Companion Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), pp. 713–715, 2024
Workshop CORE A* ACM
2023
An eye-tracking study on the use of split/unified code change views for bug detection
Juan Pablo Sandoval Alcocer, Alejandra Cossio-Chavalier, Tiara Rojas-Stambuk, and Leonel Merino
IEEE Access, 11:136195–136205, 2023
Journal WoS Q2 IEEE
DGT-AR: Visualizing code dependencies in AR
Dussan Freire-Pozo, Kevin Cespedes-Arancibia, Leonel Merino, Alison Fernandez-Blanco, Andres Neyem, and Juan Pablo Sandoval Alcocer
IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT), pp. 95–99, 2023
Conference CORE B IEEE
Augmented Software Visualization
Leonel Merino, Craig Anslow, Takashi Ishio, and Alexandre Bergel
National Institute of Informatics, 2023
Book Chapter Preprint
2022
Git-truck: Hierarchy-oriented visualization of git repository evolution
K Højelse, T Kilbak, J Røssum, E Järpelt, L Merino, and M Lungu
IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT), pp. 131–140, 2022
Conference CORE B Preprint
Toward in-situ authoring of situated visualization with chorded keyboards
Sarah Dosdall, Katrin Angerbauer, Leonel Merino, Michael Sedlmair, and Daniel Weiskopf
15th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction (VINCI), pp. 1–5, 2022
Conference CORE C Preprint
2021
TransVis: Using visualizations and chatbots for supporting transient behavior in microservice systems
Samuel Beck, Sebastian Frank, Alireza Hakamian, Leonel Merino, and André van Hoorn
IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT), pp. 65–75, 2021
Conference CORE B Preprint
VR-based user interactions to exploit infinite space in programming activities
Víctor Stefano Segura Castillo, Leonel Merino, Geoffrey Hecht, and Alexandre Bergel
IEEE 40th International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society (SCCC), pp. 1–5, 2021
Conference Preprint
2020
A systematic literature review of modern software visualization
Noptanit Chotisarn, Leonel Merino, Xu Zheng, Supaporn Lonapalawong, Tianye Zhang, Mingliang Xu, and Wei Chen
Journal of Visualization, 23(4):539–558, 2020
Journal WoS Q2 Preprint
Evaluating mixed and augmented reality: A systematic literature review (2009–2018)
Leonel Merino, Magdalena Schwarzl, Matthias Kraus, Michael Sedlmair, Dieter Schmalstieg, and Daniel Weiskopf
IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), pp. 438–451, 2020
Conference CORE A* Preprint
Unleashing the potentials of immersive augmented reality for software engineering
Leonel Merino, Mircea Lungu, and Christoph Seidl
IEEE 27th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), pp. 517–521, 2020
Conference CORE A Preprint
Toward agile situated visualization: An exploratory user study
Leonel Merino, Boris Sotomayor-Gómez, Xingyao Yu, Ronie Salgado, Alexandre Bergel, Michael Sedlmair, and Daniel Weiskopf
Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA), pp. 1–7, 2020
Conference CORE A* Preprint
Evaluating a visual approach for understanding JavaScript source code
Martin Dias, Diego Orellana, Santiago Vidal, Leonel Merino, and Alexandre Bergel
28th International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), pp. 128–138, 2020
Conference CORE A Preprint
Can a chatbot support software engineers with load testing? Approach and experiences
Dušan Okanović, Samuel Beck, Lasse Merz, Christoph Zorn, Leonel Merino, André van Hoorn, and Fabian Beck
11th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE), pp. 120–129, 2020
Conference CORE B Preprint
Toward requirements engineering with immersive augmented reality
Nitish Patkar, Leonel Merino, and Oscar Nierstrasz
Conference Companion of the 4th International Conference on Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming (NIP), pp. 55–60, 2020
Workshop ACM
2019
VISON: An ontology-based approach for software visualization tool discoverability
Leonel Merino, Ekaterina Kozlova, Oscar Nierstrasz, and Daniel Weiskopf
IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT), pp. 45–55, 2019
Conference CORE B Preprint
PerfVis: Pervasive visualization in immersive augmented reality for performance awareness
Leonel Merino, Mario Hess, Alexandre Bergel, Oscar Nierstrasz, and Daniel Weiskopf
10th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE), pp. 13–16, 2019
Conference CORE B Preprint
CorpusVis — Visualizing software metrics at scale
Jack Slater, Craig Anslow, Jens Dietrich, and Leonel Merino
IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT), pp. 99–109, 2019
Conference CORE B IEEE
2018
A systematic literature review of software visualization evaluation
Leonel Merino, Mohammad Ghafari, Craig Anslow, and Oscar Nierstrasz
Journal of Systems and Software, 144:165–180, 2018
Journal WoS Q1 Preprint
Towards actionable visualization for software developers
Leonel Merino, Mohammad Ghafari, and Oscar Nierstrasz
Journal of Software: Evolution and Process, 2018
Journal WoS Q1 Preprint
Overcoming issues of 3D software visualization through immersive augmented reality
Leonel Merino, Alexandre Bergel, and Oscar Nierstrasz
IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT), pp. 54–64, 2018
Conference CORE B 🏆 Distinguished Paper Award Preprint
2017
On the impact of the medium in the effectiveness of 3D software visualization
Leonel Merino, Johannes Fuchs, Michael Blumenschein, Craig Anslow, Mohammad Ghafari, Oscar Nierstrasz, Michael Behrisch, and Daniel Keim
IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT), pp. 11–21, 2017
Conference CORE B Preprint
CityVR: Gameful software visualization
Leonel Merino, Mohammad Ghafari, Craig Anslow, and Oscar Nierstrasz
IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME), pp. 633–637, 2017
Conference CORE A Preprint
2016
Towards actionable visualisation in software development
Leonel Merino, Mohammad Ghafari, and Oscar Nierstrasz
IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT), 2016
Conference CORE B 🏆 Best Paper Award Preprint
MetaVis: Exploring actionable visualization
Leonel Merino, Mohammad Ghafari, Oscar Nierstrasz, Alexandre Bergel, and Juraj Kubelka
IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT), 2016
Conference CORE B Preprint
Walls, pillars and beams: A 3D decomposition of quality anomalies
Yuriy Tymchuk, Leonel Merino, Mohammad Ghafari, and Oscar Nierstrasz
IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT), pp. 126–135, 2016
Conference CORE B Preprint
CommunityExplorer: A framework for visualizing collaboration networks
Leonel Merino, Dominik Seliner, Mohammad Ghafari, and Oscar Nierstrasz
International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies (IWST), pp. 2:1–2:9, 2016
Workshop Preprint
Network visualization
Leonel Merino
In Alexandre Bergel (ed.), Agile Visualization, ch. 17, pp. 201–209. LULU Press, 2016
Book Chapter
2015
Explora: A visualisation tool for metric analysis of software corpora
Leonel Merino, Mircea Lungu, and Oscar Nierstrasz
IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT), 2015
Conference CORE B IEEE
Explora: Infrastructure for scaling up software visualisation to corpora
Leonel Merino, Mircea Lungu, and Oscar Nierstrasz
Post-Proceedings of SATToSE'14, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol. 1354, 2015
Workshop Preprint
2014
Adaptable visualisation based on user needs
Leonel Merino
Pre-Proceedings of SATToSE'14, pp. 71–74, July 2014
Workshop Preprint