Champagne Prototyping: A research technique for early evaluation of complex end-user programming systems

Proceedings - 2004 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human Centric Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 47-54

  Blackwell, Alan F ^a   Burnett, Margaret M ^b   Jones, Simon Peyton ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAMPAGNE PROTOTYPING; COGNITIVE DIMENSIONS (CD); END-USER PROGRAMMING SYSTEMS; WORKSHEETS;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; DATA REDUCTION; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); FEEDBACK; GENERAL PURPOSE COMPUTERS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SPREADSHEETS;

SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

EID: 16244419762     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VLHCC.2004.10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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