Using HCI techniques to design a more usable programming system

Proceedings - IEEE 2002 Symposia on Human Centric Computing Languages and Environments, HCC 2002

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 198-206

  Pane, J F ^a,b   Myers, B A ^a   Miller, L B ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

^b RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCRETE MODEL; DESIGN DECISIONS; DOMAIN SPECIFIC; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; EVENT-BASED LANGUAGES; INTERACTIVE ANIMATIONS; PROBLEM SOLUTIONS; PROGRAMMING SYSTEM;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DESIGN; USER INTERFACES;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING;

EID: 1442333705     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HCC.2002.1046372     Document Type: Conference Paper

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