A decade of research and development on program animation: The Jeliot experience

Journal of Visual Languages and Computing

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 375-384

  Ben Ari, Mordechai ^a   Bednarik, Roman ^b   Ben Bassat Levy, Ronit ^a   Ebel, Gil ^a   Moreno, Andrés ^b   Myller, Niko ^b   Sutinen, Erkki ^b  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Attention; Conflictive animation; Eye tracking; Jeliot; Phenomenography; Program animation; Program visualization; Software visualization

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051584244     PISSN: 1045926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvlc.2011.04.004     Document Type: Article

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