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CHI
2002
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
The impact of human-centered features on the usability of a programming system for children
HANDS is a new programming system for children that was designed for usability. This paper examines the effectiveness of three features of HANDS: queries, aggregate operations, an...
John F. Pane, Brad A. Myers
VL
2002
IEEE
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14 years 20 days ago
Using HCI Techniques to Design a More Usable Programming System
A programming system is the user interface between the programmer and the computer. Programming is a notoriously difficult activity, and some of this difficulty can be attribute...
John F. Pane, Brad A. Myers, Leah B. Miller
SCAM
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
An Empirical Study of Function Overloading in C++
The usefulness and usability of programming tools (for example, languages, libraries, and frameworks) may greatly impact programmer productivity and software quality. Ideally, the...
Cheng Wang, Daqing Hou
EICS
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Engineering crowd interaction within smart environments
Smart environments (e.g., airports, hospitals, stadiums, and other physical spaces using ubiquitous computing to empower many mobile people) provide novel challenges for usability...
Michael D. Harrison, Mieke Massink, Diego Latella