PPIG 2014 FINAL PROGRAMME
| TUESDAY | 24th June |
| 18.00-19.00 | Registration |
| 19.00-21.00 | Informal gathering at Old Ship |
| WEDNESDAY | 25th June | |
| 9.00-9.45 | Registration | |
| 9.45-11.00 | Doctoral Consortium 1 | |
| Google Sheets v Microsoft Excel: A Comparison of the Behaviour and Performance of Spreadsheet Users Karl Mernagh and Kevin Mc Daid |
20mins | |
| Computational Linguistics Vice Versa Sebastian Lohmeier |
20mins | |
| Applying Educational Data Mining to the Study of the Novice Programmer, within a Neo-Piagetian Theoretical Perspective Alireza Ahadi |
20mins | |
| 11.00-11.30 | Coffee | |
| 11.30-12.30 | Doctoral Consortium 2 | |
| Neo-Piagetian Theory and the Novice Programmer Donna Teague |
20mins | |
| Self-explaining from Videos as a Methodology for Learning Programming Viviane Aureliano |
20mins | |
| 12.30-13.50 | Lunch and Registration | |
| 13.50-14.00 | Welcome Benedict du Boulay & Judith Good |
10mins |
| 14.00-15.00 | Invited speaker Beyond Usable Security Robert Biddle |
60mins |
| 15.00-16.00 | Session 1: Cognitive Factors | |
| Cognitive Flexibility and Programming Performance Marianne Leinikka, Arto Vihavainen, Jani Lukander and Satu Pakarinen |
30mins | |
| Reasoning about Complexity - Software Models as External Representations Simon Lynch and Joseph Ferguson |
30mins | |
| 16.00-16.30 | Coffee | |
| 16.30-17.20 | Session 2: Cognitive Factors (cont.) | |
| Exploring Core Cognitive Skills of Computational Thinking Ana Paula Ambrosio, Leandro Da Silva Almeida, Joaquim Macedo and Amanda Franco |
30mins | |
| The Object-Relational impedance mismatch from a cognitive point of view Laura Benvenuti and Gerrit Van Der Veer |
20mins | |
| 18.00-19.00 | Welcome drinks reception | |
| THURSDAY | 26th June | |
| 8.30-9.00 | Registration | |
| 9.00-10.00 | Invited speaker The Psychology of PPIG: a curly tale Marian Petre |
60mins |
| 10.00-10.30 | Coffee | |
| 10.30-12.20 | Session 3: Novice Learning | |
| Learning Syntax as Notational Expertise when using DrawBridge Alistair Stead and Alan Blackwell |
30mins | |
| Blinded by their Plight: Tracing and the Preoperational Programmer Donna Teague and Raymond Lister |
30mins | |
| Exploring Problem Solving Paths in a Java Programming Course Roya Hosseini, Arto Vihavainen and Peter Brusilovsky |
30mins | |
| Educational Programming Languages: The Motivation to Learn with Sonic Pi Arabella Sinclair |
20mins | |
| 12.30-14.00 | Lunch | |
| 14.00-14.30 | Session 4: Novice Learning (cont.) | |
| Falling Behind Early and Staying Behind When Learning to Program Alireza Ahadi, Raymond Lister and Donna Teague |
30mins | |
| 14.30-15.40 | Session 5: Social and Affective Issues | |
| Affective Learning with Online Software Tutors for Programming Amruth Kumar |
30mins | |
| Linking Linguistics and Programming: How to start? (Work in Progress) Jacqueline Rice, Inge Genee and Fariha Naz |
20mins | |
| Concept Vocabularies in Programmer Sociolects (Work in Progress) Jacqueline Rice, Bradley Ellert, I. Genee, F. Taiani and P. Rayson |
20mins | |
| 15.40-16.10 | Coffee | |
| 16.10-18.00 | Session 6: Representations and Interfaces | |
| Developing Coding Schemes for Program Comprehension using Eye Movements Teresa Busjahn, Carsten Schulte and Edna Kropp |
30mins | |
| A case of computational thinking: The subtle effect of hidden dependencies on the user experience of version control Luke Church, Emma Soderberg and Elayabharath Elango |
20mins | |
| Work in Progress Report: Nonvisual Visual Programming Clayton Lewis |
20mins | |
| A cognitive dimensions analysis of interaction design for algorithmic composition software Matt Bellingham, Simon Holland and Paul Mulholland |
20mins | |
| Activation and the Comprehension of Indirect Anaphors in Source Code Sebastian Lohmeier |
20mins | |
| 19.30-21.30 | Dinner + Speaker Alan Blackwell |
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| FRIDAY | 27th June | |
| 8.30-9.00 | Registration | |
| 9.00-10.00 | Invited speaker A Survey of the User Experience of Tools for Programming Real-time Control Systems Logic: An opportunity for applying cognitive dimensions David Gilmore |
60mins |
| 10.00-10.30 | Coffee | |
| 10.30-11.00 | Session 7: Doctoral Consortium Report Back Jim Buckley |
30mins |
| 11.00-12.30 | Session 8: Programming and Creation | |
| Exploring Creative Learning for the Internet of Things era Alan Blackwell, Samuel Aaron and Rachel Drury |
30mins | |
| Evaluation of a Live Visual Constraint Language with Professional Artists Meredydd Williams |
30mins | |
| Ghosts of programming past, present and yet to come Megan Beynon, Meurig Beynon and Russell Boyatt |
30mins | |
| 12.30-14.00 | Lunch | |
| 14.00-15.30 | Closing Events Thomas Green and Maria Kutar |