The SEGAL Lab is a research facility in the Computer Science Department of University of Victoria, BC. We carry out research to improve the collaboration of geographically distributed software development teams. Global software development is increasingly becoming common practice in the software industry, as the ability to develop software at remote sites in projects such as development outsourcing allows organizations to ignore the geographical distance and benefit from access to a qualified resource pool and reduced development costs. The rapidly increasing globalization of software industry creates software engineering challenges due to the impact of temporal, geographical and cultural differences, and requires development of methodologies, techniques and technologies to address these issues.

Our research is at the intersection of areas of Software Engineering, Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Human Computer Interaction. SEGAL projects aim at achieving a better understanding of the challenges faced by multi-site software organizations and at studying advanced technologies that successfully support collaborative activities in global software engineering. Details on the current technical infrastructure in our lab can be found here.

If you are interested in working with the SEGAL Lab, contact the director, Dr. Daniela Damian.