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Updated: 12 February 2003

The 15th Annual Workshop of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group will be held 8-10 April 2003 at Keele University, UK.

PPIG will be co-located with the 7th International Conference on Empirical Assessment of Software Engineering (EASE).

Keynote speaker

Chris Hundhausen, University of Hawaii

Important dates

Aims and Scope

The annual PPIG workshop is a forum in which researchers concerned with cognitive factors in software engineering can present and discuss recent results, findings and developments.

A feature of the PPIG workshops has been their openness to a wide spectrum of concerns related to programming and software engineering, from the design of programming languages to communication issues in software teams, and from computing education to high-performance professional practice. Similarly, PPIG entertains a broad spectrum of research approaches, from theoretical perspectives drawing on psychological theory to empirical perspectives grounded in real-world experience.

Despite its name, PPIG aims to bring together people working in a variety of disciplines and to break down cross-disciplinary barriers.

If you have any queries as to whether your topic falls within the remit of PPIG, then please do not hesitate to contact the Program Chair, Marian Petre, at m.petre@open.ac.uk

Paper Submission

As requested by PPIG participants, we shall be introducing a two-tier submission:

• Technical papers will be refereed to journal standard. Selected papers will be published in a special issue of the journal 'Empirical Software Engineering', as well as in the workshop proceedings. (There will be time for revision of accepted papers in response to referees' comments before journal publication.)
• Work-in-progress papers will be reviewed in the usual PPIG manner. Any papers declined as technical submissions will automatically be reviewed as work-in-progress papers. All accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings.

Papers should conform to the authors' guidelines available from the Journal of Empirical Software Engineering, which will host a special issue for selected papers from PPIG and EASE. Guidelines can be accessed from the EASE web site.

Full technical papers (3000-5000 words) and work-in-progress reports can be submitted electronically in PDF format to: EASE@cs.keele.ac.uk

Alternatively, four copies can be sent to:

EASE
Department of Computer Science
University of Keele
Keele, Staffs.
ST5 5BG
U.K.

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Programme chair

Marian Petre, Open University, UK

Programme committee

Alan Blackwell, Cambridge University, UK

Paul Brna, University of Leeds, UK

Margaret Burnett, Oregon State University, USA

Francoise Detienne, INRIA, France

John Domingue, Open University, UK

Chris Douce, Feedback Instruments, UK

Sally Fincher, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK

Thomas Green, University of Leeds, UK

Babak Khazaei, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

Maria Kutar, University of Hertfordshire, UK

Linda McIver, Monash University, Australia

Paul Mulholland, Open University, UK

Robert Rist, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

Chris Roast, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

Mary Beth Rosson, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA

Jorma Sajaniemi, University of Joensuu, Finland

Judith Segal, Open University, UK

Jean Scholtz, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA

Markku Tukiainen, University of Joensuu, Finland

Willemien Visser, INRIA, France

Andrew Walenstein, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA

Susan Wiedenbeck, Drexel University, USA

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Doctoral Event at PPIG-2003

During the morning of 8 April, and at intervals during the workshop, PPIG and EASE will be hosting activities aimed at research students from both communities. There is no additional charge for these activities. Both PPIG and EASE have always welcomed research students; this is a great community for contacts and discussion.

Students wishing to participate:

• are encouraged strongly to submit a Work in Progress paper to PPIG, due by 31 January, and
• are asked to indicate their intention to attend the doctoral event by emailing us at EASE@cs.keele.ac.uk by 1 March (which is also the registration deadline).
• Those students who are not ready to submit a Work in Progress paper will be asked to submit a poster and a 2-3 page overview of their research, so that they can receive feedback from the discussants.

Questions should be addressed directly to Marian Petre at m.petre@open.ac.uk

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