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  • 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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    , 2013. Title: Helping End-User Programmers Help Themselves – The Idea Garden Approach

  • Automated web-based analysis and visualization of spatiotemporal data

    Creator:
    Keon, Dylan B.
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    Most data are associated with a place, and many are also associated with a moment in time, a time interval, or another linked temporal component. Spatiotemporal data (i.e., data with elements of both space and time) can be used to assess movement or change over time in a particular location,...
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    Advancements in Web-based Technology ................................................. 5 1.3 Automated Data

  • End-user software engineering in the spreadsheet paradigm

    Creator:
    Abraham, Robin
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    Spreadsheets are among the most widely used end-user programming systems. Unfortunately, there is a high incidence of errors in end-user spreadsheets, and some of these errors have high impact. In this dissertation, we describe techniques we have developed to help end users develop safer spreadsheets. As part of our research,...
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    addressing scheme based on it. Instead, cells in Forms/3 spreadsheets can be arranged any way the user

  • A browser-based tool for designing query interfaces to scientific databases

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    Newsome, Mark Ronald, 1960-
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    Scientists in the biological sciences need to retrieve information from a variety of data collections, traditionally maintained in SQL databases, in order to conduct research. Because current assistant tools are designed primarily for business and financial users, scientists have been forced to use the notoriously difficult command-line SQL interface, supplied...
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    databases. All three are maintained under Sybase, a multi-user, commercial SQL-based system designed to

  • Helping end-user programmers find and fix performance problems in visual code

    Creator:
    Chambers, Chris
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    End-user programmers often struggle to create programs that run quickly and effectively, which can be a major deterrent in completing their tasks as desired. Current research has primarily focused on catching user mistakes, such as errors or misused formulas. However, end users deal with issues other than just correctness. In...
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    Helping End-User Programmers Find and Fix Performance

  • Gender HCI issues in end-user programming

    Creator:
    Beckwith, Laura A.
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    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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    Science presented on April 23, 2007. Title: Gender HCI Issues in End-User Programming Abstract

  • Understanding and supporting end-user debugging strategies

    Creator:
    Grigoreanu, Valentina I.
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    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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    and a new strategy-based end-user debugging tool for Excel, called StratCel. These studies revealed

  • Network coding for multi-user wireless networks

    Creator:
    Nguyen, Dong Van
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    Until a few years ago, wireless-capable laptops were considered novelties by many. It is now hard to find a laptop or a hand-held computing device that is not wireless-ready. As wireless devices are becoming commodities, they have also become an indispensable part of the modern society. Not surprisingly, research in...
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    . Title: Network Coding for Multi-User Wireless Networks Abstract approved: Thinh Nguyen Bella Bose

  • The development of pre-service teachers' Technology Specific Pedagogy

    Creator:
    Harrington, Rachel A.
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    The purpose of this study was to document the development of pre-service teachers' Technology Specific Pedagogy as they learned to teach mathematics with technology during their initial licensure program. The study investigated the pre-service teachers' learning using both a social and a psychological perspective of teacher learning. Two research questions...
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    study was to document the development of pre-service teachers’ Technology Specific Pedagogy as they

  • Automated Monitoring of Modular Construction Factories using Computer Vision

    Creator:
    Panahi, Roshan
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    Modular construction is increasingly seen as an efficient construction method in terms of time, cost, and energy. The full realization of these advantages partly relies on the efficiency of the production process inside the modular factories, which currently rely on tedious manual monitoring methods or expensive automated techniques. As a...
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    can significantly delay construction projects. Computer vision-based methods have recently emerged