The impact of human-centered features on the usability of a programming system for children

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 684-685

  Pane, John F ^a   Myers, Brad A ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

End user programming; Programming languages; Psychology of programming; User studies

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; DATA PROCESSING; PROBLEM SOLVING; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

END-USER PROGRAMMING; AGGREGATE OPERATION; DATA VISIBILITY; END USER PROGRAMMING; PROGRAMMING SYSTEM; PROGRAMMING TECHNIQUE; PSYCHOLOGY OF PROGRAMMING; USER STUDY;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; HUMAN ENGINEERING;

EID: 0038387942     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/506443.506545     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (4)

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2. Pane, J.F. and Myers, B.A. Tabular and Textual Methods for Selecting Objects from a Group. Proceedings of VL 2000: IEEE International Symposium on Visual Languages. (Seattle, WA, September 2000), IEEE Computer Society, 157-164.
3. Pane, J.F., Myers, B.A., and Miller, L.B. Using HCI Techniques to Design a More Usable Programming System, submitted for publication (2002), http://www.cs.cmu.edu/̃pane/handsdesign.html.
4. Pane, J.F., Ratanamahatana, C.A., and Myers, B.A. Studying the Language and Structure in Non-Programmers' Solutions to Programming Problems. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 54, 2 (February 2001), 237-264.