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  • Novel approaches to promoting end-user programming

    Creator:
    Bahmani, Faezeh
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    End-user programming has become widespread. The increasing size of this population and the prevalence of barriers that they face has sparked the development of approaches that promote end-user programing by helping them overcome barriers and teaching them programming. Despite the fact that these approaches have done well in achieving those...
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    Masters Thesis
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    , especially Jill Cao and Mike Lee. I learned so many lessons from you, it has been great working with you

  • Helping end-user programmers help themselves : the idea garden approach

    Creator:
    Cao, Chen
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    End-user programmers face many barriers in programming. Research has seen many programming environments that attempted to lower or remove the barriers but despite these efforts, empirical studies continue to report barriers users face. To investigate this issue, we took a theory-informed approach. Using theories from design, creativity, and problem solving...
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    Dissertation
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Jill

  • The sum of its parts : investigating the component pieces of GenderMag

    Creator:
    Hill, Charles
    Abstract:
    Previous work introduced the GenderMag method, a software inspection method used to help software creators identify features within their software that are not gender-inclusive. Inclusiveness of software (gender or otherwise) matters because supporting diversity matters—it is well-known that the more diverse a group of problem-solvers, the higher the quality of...
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    Masters Thesis
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    ......................................................................................................... 14 GenderMag’s Persona(s): are they Working

  • Improving User Mental Models of XAI Systems with Inclusive Design Approaches

    Creator:
    Hamid, Md Montaser
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    Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) systems aim to improve users’ understanding of AI but rarely consider the inclusivity aspects of XAI. Without inclusive approaches, improving explanations might not work well for everyone. This study investigates leveraging users’ diverse problem-solving styles as an inclusive strategy to fix an XAI prototype, with the...
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    impacted their perception of the AI’s fairness. Similarly, Millecamp et al.’s work [30] found that diverse

  • Toward end-user debugging of machine-learned programs

    Creator:
    Kulesza, Todd
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    The results of a machine learning from user behavior can be thought of as a program, and like all programs, it may need to be debugged. Providing ways for the user to debug it matters because without the ability to fix errors, users may find that the learned program’s errors...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Grigoreanu, Jill Cao, and Dr. Joseph Lawrance have been invaluable for advice and assistance. Ian Oberst

  • Variations Foraging

    Creator:
    Srinivasa Ragavan, Sruti
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    Information Foraging Theory (IFT) has successfully explained how people seek information in various domains, in turn, informing the design of several tools and information-intensive environments. However, prior research has not explored foraging in the presence of several, very similar variants of the same artifact. Such variants are commonplace in several...
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    Dissertation
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    ……..….………….…………………………….....72 5.5 P01’s Navigation predictions……..….………….…………………………….....74 5.6 Improvements from

  • Eliciting informal specifications from scientific modelers for evaluation and debugging

    Creator:
    Bogart, Christopher
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    Professional software engineers have an arsenal of techniques such as unit testing and assertions to check their specifications, but these techniques require tools, motivation, experience and training that programmers without professional software engineering training may not have. As a result, professionals in other fields, such as scientific modelers, face greater...
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    Dissertation
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    collaboration and advice: Scott Fleming, Irwin Kwan, Jill Cao, Valentina Grigoreanu, Todd Kulesza, Faezeh

  • Information foraging in debugging

    Creator:
    Lawrance, Joseph A.
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    Programmers spend a substantial fraction of their debugging time by navigating through source code, yet little is known about how programmers navigate. With the continuing growth in size and complexity of software, this fraction of time is likely to increase, which presents challenges to those seeking both to understand and...
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    Dissertation
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    Narayanan, Joey Ruthruff, Marc Fisher, Todd Kulesza, Jill Cao, Neville Mehta, Ronald Bjarnason, Randy