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VL
2007
IEEE
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Mapping the Space of API Design Decisions
When creating new application programming interfaces (APIs), designers must make many decisions. These decisions affect the quality of the resulting APIs in terms of performance (...
Jeffrey Stylos, Brad A. Myers
VL
2007
IEEE
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EulerView: a non-hierarchical visualization component
The Treeview control is the traditional way of visualizing hierarchical information in user interfaces, but in situations such as managing bookmarks in browsers, more general clas...
Rosario De Chiara, Andrew Fish
VL
2007
IEEE
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On to the Real World: Gender and Self-Efficacy in Excel
Although there have been a number of studies of end-user software development tasks, few of them have considered gender issues for real end-user developers in real-world environme...
Laura Beckwith, Derek Inman, Kyle Rector, Margaret...
VL
2007
IEEE
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Scenario-Based Requirements for Web Macro Tools
Web macros automate the interactions of end users with web sites and related information systems. Though web macro recorders and players have grown in sophistication over the past...
Christopher Scaffidi, Allen Cypher, Sebastian G. E...
VL
2007
IEEE
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Community-Based Scaffolding to Promote End-User Learning
End-user programming provides a unique opportunity to study informal computer science education and knowledge acquisition in the real world. We seek to explore the use of communit...
Brian Dorn
VL
2007
IEEE
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Evaluating an Automated Tool to Assist Evolutionary Document Generation
While using how-to documents for guidance in performing computer-based tasks, users often run into problems due to inaccurate, out-of-date and incomplete documentation. These prob...
Gahgene Gweon, Lawrence D. Bergman, Vittorio Caste...
VL
2007
IEEE
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A Type System Based on End-User Vocabulary
In previous work we have developed a system that automatically checks for unit errors in spreadsheets. In this paper we describe our experiences using the system in a workshop on ...
Robin Abraham, Martin Erwig, Scott Andrew
VL
2008
IEEE
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How designers design and program interactive behaviors
Designers are skilled at sketching and prototyping the look of interfaces, but to explore various behaviors (what the interface does in response to input) typically requires progr...
Brad A. Myers, Sun Young Park, Yoko Nakano, Greg M...