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Gender HCI issues in end-user programming

Creator:

Beckwith, Laura A.

Abstract:

Until recently, research has not considered whether the design of end-user programming environments, such as spreadsheets, multimedia authoring languages, and CAD systems, affects males and females differently. As a result, we began investigating how the two genders are impacted by end-user programming software and whether attention to gender differences is...

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Dissertation
Generalizing abstractions in form-based visual programming languages : from direct manipulation to static representation

Creator:

Yang, Sherry

Abstract:

We believe concreteness, direct manipulation and responsiveness in a visual programming language increase its usefulness. However, these characteristics present a challenge in generalizing programs for reuse, especially when concrete examples are used as one way of achieving concreteness. In this thesis, we present a technique to solve this problem by...

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Dissertation
Understanding and supporting end-user debugging strategies

Creator:

Grigoreanu, Valentina I.

Abstract:

End users' programs are fraught with errors, costing companies millions of dollars. One reason may be that researchers and tool designers have not yet focused on end-user debugging strategies. To investigate this possibility, this dissertation presents eight empirical studies and a new strategy-based end-user debugging tool for Excel, called StratCel....

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Dissertation