Elise Paradis

AI + SE Seminar Series (July 2025. TBD EST)

What factors influence developers’ adoption of AI tools? A survey-based study with Google developers

In this talk, I will share insights from a study with Google developers that aimed to answer the following question: What factors influence developers’ adoption of AI tools? I will leverage the technology acceptance model (Davis 1989) and explore feature-level factors, attitudinal factors, and their impact on stated likelihood of adoption and on actual usage. I will also discuss some preliminary results on trust in AI developer tools: what it is, whether it is a feature of developers or of the features, and its unintuitive impact on adoption. Come prepared to share your thoughts and ask for more research!

Bio

Elise Paradis, PhD, is a UX researcher on the Developer AI team at Google. She has been working in the developer space since 2019, when she was the first UXR hired on Facebook’s Developer Infrastructure team. She has done research across a broad range of areas impacting developer productivity, and is currently focused on helping teams build and measure the success of AI products for code.

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