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PPIG 2005

17th Annual Workshop

29 June - 1 July 2005

University of Sussex, Brighton UK

Programme

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Wed, 29 June 2005

Keynote Address  

  1. Concretising Computational Abstractions: What works, what doesn't, and what is lost [PDF] (327K)
    Ken Kahn
    President and founder of Animated Programs

Coffee Break

Collaborative Programming   Chair: Alan Blackwell

  1. Factors Affecting the Perceived Effectiveness of Pair Programming in Higher Education [PDF] (1512K)
    Edgar Acosta Chaparro, Aybala Yuksel, Pablo Romero & Sallyann Bryant
  2. Rating Expertise in Collaborative Software Development [PDF] (1493K)
    Sallyann Bryant
  3. The influence of Intra-Team Relationships on the Systems Development Process: A Theoretical Framework of Intra-Group Dynamics [PDF] (922K)
    C.C.H. Rosen
  4. Pair Programming: When and Why it Works [PDF] (825K)
    Jan Chong, Robert Plummer, Larry Leifer, Scott R. Klemmer, Ozgur Eris & George Toye

Fish and chips on Brighton Pier

Thu, 30 June 2005

Graphical Visualisations   Chair: Benedict du Boulay

  1. Effects of Experience on Gaze Behavior during Program Animation [PDF] (1116K)
    Roman Bednarik, Niko Myller, Erkki Sutinen & Markku Tukiainen
  2. Graphical Visualisations and Debugging: A Detailed Process Analysis [PDF] (849K)
    Pablo Romero, Benedict du Boulay, Richard Cox, Rudi Lutz & Sallyann Bryant
  3. Short-Term Effects of Graphical versus Textual Visualisation of Variables on Program Perception [PDF] (672K)
    Seppo Nevalainen & Jorma Sajaniemi
  4. Theoretical Considerations on Navigating Codespace with Spatial Cognition [PDF] (433K)
    Anthony Cox, Maryanne Fisher & Philip O'Brien

Coffee Break

Programming, creativity and the creative arts   Chair: Thomas Green

  1. Attuning: A Social and Technical Study of Artist-Programmer Collaborations [PDF] (1190K)
    Greg Turner, Alastair Weakley, Yun Zhang & Ernest Edmonds
  2. The Programming Language as a Musical Instrument [PDF] (1079K)
    Alan Blackwell & Nick Collins
  3. The Psychology of Invention in Computer Science [PDF] (1292K)
    Ronald J. Leach & Caprice A. Ayers

Lunch

Professional software development   Chair: Pablo Romero

  1. Roles of Variables in Experts' Programming Knowledge [PDF] (838K)
    Jorma Sajaniemi & Raquel Navarro Prieto
  2. The Role of Source Code within Program Summaries describing Maintenance Activities [PDF] (461K)
    Pamela O'Shea & Chris Exton
  3. Representation-Oriented Software Development: A Cognitive Approach to Software Engineering [PDF] (1541K)
    John J. Sung
  4. Preliminary Study to Empirically Investigate the Comprehensibility of Requirements Specifications [PDF] (1680K)
    Deirdre Carew, Chris Exton & Jim Buckley

Coffee Break

Design and Tools   Chair: Jorma Sajaniemi

  1. Software Authoring as Design Conversation [PDF] (831K)
    Andrée Woodcock & Richard Bartlett
  2. Sidebrain: A Sidekick for the Programmer's Brain [PDF] (425K)
    John Sturdy
  3. Introducing #Dasher, A Continuous Gesture IDE, A Work in Progress Paper [PDF] (1237K)
    Luke Church

Methodology   Chair: Jorma Sajaniemi

  1. Mining Qualitative Behavioral Data from Quantitative Data: A Case Study from the Gender HCI Project [PDF] (3348K)
    Laura Beckwith, Thippaya Chintakovid, Susan Wiedenbeck & Margaret Burnett
  2. A Framework for Evaluating Qualitative Research Methods in Computer Programming Education [PDF] (929K)
    Enda Dunican

Dinner at

Fri, 1 July 2005

Teaching Programming   Chair: Enda Dunican

  1. Attitudes Toward Computers, the Introductory Course and Recruiting New Majors: Preliminary Results [PDF] (1033K)
    Daniel Farkas & Narayan Murthy
  2. Using Roles of Variables in Teaching: Effects on Program Construction [PDF] (626K)
    Pauli Byckling & Jorma Sajaniemi
  3. The Influence of Motivation and Comfort-Level on Learning to Program [PDF] (547K)
    Susan Bergin & Ronan Reilly

Coffee Break

  1. Psychometric Assessment of Computing Undergraduates [PDF] (1774K)
    Jim Ivins & Michele Poy-Suan Ong

Keynote Address  

  1. PP2SS - From the Psychology of Programming to Social Software [PDF] (812K)
    Marc Eisenstadt

  2. Co-Founder and Chief Scientist, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University

Lunch

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