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ISEUD
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
What Is End-User Software Engineering and Why Does It Matter?
End-user programming has become ubiquitous, so much so that there are more end-user programmers today than there are professional programmers. End-user programming empowers—but t...
Margaret M. Burnett
OOPSLA
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
The Tower of Babel did not fail
Fred Brooks’ retelling of the biblical story of the Tower of Babel offers many insights into what makes building software difficult. The difficulty, according to common interp...
Paul Adamczyk, Munawar Hafiz
CSCW
2007
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Doing Virtually Nothing: Awareness and Accountability in Massively Multiplayer Online Worlds
To date the most popular and sophisticated types of virtual worlds can be found in the area of video gaming, especially in the genre of Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Ga...
Robert J. Moore, Nicolas Ducheneaut, Eric Nickell
BIRTHDAY
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Why Sets?
Sets play a key role in foundations of mathematics. Why? To what extent is it an accident of history? Imagine that you have a chance to talk to mathematicians from a far-away plane...
Andreas Blass
IUI
2010
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
The why UI: using goal networks to improve user interfaces
People interact with interfaces to accomplish goals, and knowledge about human goals can be useful for building intelligent user interfaces. We suggest that modeling high, human-l...
Dustin Arthur Smith, Henry Lieberman