PPIG 2001 - 13th Annual Workshop 17 - 20 Apr 2001, Bournemouth University, Bournemouth, UK

PhD Students Discussion Session

How to write PhDs
Alan Blackwell (Chair), Maria Kutar, Thomas Green

Dinner followed by a treasure hunt

Wed, 18 April

  • Welcome
    Richard Wynne
    Head of the School of Design, Engineering and Computing, Bournemouth University

Keynote

  • Developing Software as a Human, Social & Organizational Activity
    Liam Bannon, University of Limerick

Distance Learning Chair: Judith Segal

  • The Coach - Supporting students in the area of error reports
    Carina Paine, The Open University

  • Observations of student working practices in an online distance education learning environment in relation to time
    Kit Logan & Pete Thomas, The Open University

Morning Coffee Break

Collaborative Software Development Chair: Frank Wales

  • A Study of Human Solutions in eXtreme Programming
    Robert Gittins & Sian Hope, University of Wales Bangor

  • A phenomenographic view on the socio-cultural activity theory in research concerning university students’ learning of computer science in an internationally distributed environment
    Anders Berglund, Uppsala University

  • Team Performance Factors in Distributed Collaborative Software Development
    Martha Hause and Mark R. Woodroffe, The Open University

Lunch

Discussion Panel

  • Psychology of Programming meets Software Engineering
    Martin Shepperd, Bournemouth University
    Marc Roper, University of Strathclyde
    Marian Petre, The Open University
    Gary Olson, University of Michigan

Afternoon Coffee Break

Programming Languages Designs Chair: Linda McIver

  • Designing a Programming Language for Home Automation
    Alan Blackwell & Rob Hague, University of Cambridge

  • The Science of Web-Programming
    Roger Stone, Loughborough University

  • Native-End User Languages: A Design Framework
    Basawaraj Patil, Klaus Maetzel & Erich J. Neuhold, German National Research Centre for Information Technology

Workshop Dinner followed by music and dancing.

Thu, 19 April

Keynote

  • Round-the-World Software Development: Prospects and Perils
    Gary Olson, University of Michigan

Software Comprehension Chair: Mordechai Ben-Ari

  • An Open-Source Analysis Schema for Identifying Software Comprehension Processes
    Michael P. O’Brien, Limerick Institute of Technology
    Teresa M. Shaft, University of Oklahoma
    Jim Buckley, University of Limerick

  • Long Term Comprehension of Software Systems: A Methodology for Study
    Chris Douce, Feedback Instruments

Morning Coffee Break

Problem Comprehension Chair: Chris Douce

  • Human and “human-like” type explanations
    Jun Yang, Greg Michaelson & Phil Trinder, Heriot-Watt University

  • Some Evidence for Graphical Readership, Paradigm Preference, and the Match-Mismatch Conjecture in Graphical Programs
    Jarinee Chattratichart & Jasna Kuljis, Brunel University

  • The Model Matters: Constructing and Reasoning with Heterarchical Structural Models
    Dan Diaper, Bournemouth University

Lunch

Computer Science Education 1 Chair: Markku Tukiainen

  • Research Agenda for Computer Science Education
    Christian Holmboe, University of Oslo
    Linda McIver, Monash University
    Carlisle George, Middlesex University

  • Salvation for Bricoleurs
    Tzippora Yeshno & Mordechai Ben-Ari, Weizmann Institute of Science

Afternoon Coffee Break

Computer Science Education 2 Chair: Thomas Green

  • The Application of reflective Practitioner to Software Engineering
    Orit Hazzan, Israel Institute of Technology

  • “It’s just like the whole picture, but smaller”: Expressions of gradualism, self-similarity, and other pre-conceptions while classifying recursive phenomena
    Dalit Levy, Tami Lapidot & Tamar Paz, Israel Institute of Technology

Dinner

Quiz Night

Cognitive Dimensions Chair: Orit Hazzan

  • Cognitive Dimensions Profiles: A Cautionary Tale
    Carol Britton & Maria Kutar, Hertfordshire University

  • Evaluation of the Cognitive Dimensions Questionnaire and Some Thoughts about the Cognitive Dimensions of Spreadsheet Calculation
    Markku Tukiainen, University of Joensuu

  • Evaluating a new programming language
    Steven Clarke, Microsoft Corporation

Morning Coffee Break

Formal Representations Chair: Maria Kutar

  • The Usability of Formal Specification Representations
    Babak Khazaei & Chris Roast, Sheffield Hallam University

  • Using a Graphical Design Tool for Formal Specification
    Colin Snook & Michael Butler, University of Southampton

Discussion session & PPIG Business

Lunch