Conference proceeding
Explaining Debugging Strategies to End-User Programmers
IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC 2007), pp.127-134
10/22/2007
DOI: 10.1109/VLHCC.2007.18
Abstract
There has been little research into how end-user programming environments can provide explanations that could fill a critical information gap for end-user debuggers - help with debugging strategy. To address this need, we designed and prototyped a video-based approach for explaining debugging strategy, and accompanied it with a text-only approach. We then conducted a qualitative empirical study with end-user debuggers. The results reveal the influences of the explanations on end-user debuggers' decision making, how users reacted to the video versus textual media, and the information gaps the explanations closed. The results also reveal issues of particular importance to explanations of this type.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Explaining Debugging Strategies to End-User Programmers
- Creators
- Neeraja Subrahmaniyan - Oregon State UniversityCory Kissinger - Oregon State UniversityKyle Rector - Oregon State UniversityDerek Inman - Oregon State UniversityJared Kaplan - Oregon State UniversityLaura Beckwith - Oregon State UniversityMargaret M Burnett - Oregon State University
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Publication Details
- IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC 2007), pp.127-134
- DOI
- 10.1109/VLHCC.2007.18
- ISSN
- 1943-6092
- eISSN
- 1943-6106
- Publisher
- IEEE
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 10/22/2007
- Academic Unit
- Computer Science
- Record Identifier
- 9984259472802771
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