This paper presents qualitative results from interviews with knowledge workers about their recovery strategies after interruptions. Special focus is given to when these strategies fail due to the nature of the interruption and existing computer support. Potential solutions offered by participants to overcome some of these problems are presented. These...
Designing tensor fields in the plane and on surfaces
is a necessary task in many graphics applications, such as
painterly rendering, pen-and-ink sketch of smooth surfaces, and
anisotropic remeshing. In this paper, we present an interactive
design system that allows a user to create a wide variety of
surface tensor...
Although gender differences in a technological world are receiving significant research attention, much of the research and practice has aimed at how society and education can impact the successes and retention of female computer science professionals—but the possibility of gender issues within software has received almost no attention. If gender...
End users develop more software than any other group of programmers, using software authoring devices such as e-mail filtering editors, by-demonstration macro builders, and spreadsheet environments. Despite this, there has been only a little research on finding ways to help these programmers with the dependability of the software they create....
A human-centric issue that has not been considered in
the design of end-user programming environments is
whether gender differences exist that are important to the
design of these environments. Ignoring this issue would
miss the opportunity of enhancing the effectiveness of
end-user programmers by incorporating appropriate
mechanisms to support gender-associated...
End users develop more software than any other group of programmers, using software authoring devices such as email filtering editors, by-demonstration macro builders, and spreadsheet environments. Despite this, there has been only a little research on finding ways to help these programmers with the dependability of the software they create....
End-user programmers are writing an unprecedented number of programs, primarily using languages and environments that incorporate a number of interactive and visual programming techniques. To help these users debug these programs, we have developed an entirely visual, interactive approach to fault localization. This paper presents the approach. We also present...
How can rigorous forms of testing be supported in a way that is both compatible with the visual aspect of visual programming languages, and usable by the audiences using those languages -- even when the audience has no background in software engineering? Visual programs are likely to contain at least...
Can collaborative filtering be successfully applied to digital
libraries in a manner that improves the effectiveness of the
library? Collaborative filtering systems remove the limitation of
traditional content-based search interfaces by using individuals to
evaluate and recommend information. We introduce an approach
where a digital library user specifies their need...
We describe the design of a domain-specific language (DSL) for the specification of generic ocean modeling tools, and we describe the
implementation of its compiler. The goal of the DSL is to allow the specification of widely usable tools for ocean modeling once, and to allow its translation into different...