Harnessing curiosity to increase correctness in end-user programming

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 305-312

  Wilson, Aaron ^a   Burnett, Margaret ^a   Beckwith, Laura ^a   Granatir, Orion ^a   Casburn, Ledah ^a   Cook, Curtis ^a   Durham, Mike ^a   Rothermel, Gregg ^a  

^a Oregon State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Assertions; Curiosity; End user software engineering

Indexed keywords

ASSERTIONS; CURIOSITY; END USER PROGRAMMERS; END USER PROGRAMMING; END USERS; END-USER SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMMERS; PROGRAM CORRECTNESS; SURPRISE-EXPLAIN-REWARD;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; HUMAN ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 0038375554     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/642611.642665     Document Type: Conference Paper

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