The Software Engineering Global interAction Lab (SEGAL) carries on research whose aim is to improve the collaboration of geographically distributed software development teams. Global software development is an increasingly common practice in the software industry. The ability to develop software at remote sites allows organizations to ignore the geographic distance and benefit from access to a qualified resource pool and reduced development costs. The rapid globalization of the software industry creates software engineering challenges due to the impact of temporal, geographical, and cultural differences. The group studies methodologies, techniques, and technologies which address these issues.

Current projects in collaborative Software Engineering are addressing issues of requirements engineering, software quality, knowledge management, human-computer interaction and computer-supported collaborative work.