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I am looking for references about how humans collect information,
especially when starting from (near-)scratch. That is, how do we
determine where to look, how do we look, and how do we evaluate the
relevance of the information.
So far,
Lindsay Marshall wrote:
creative. I would contend that there is a tremendous amount of what
amounts to debugging in science and that it often constitutes the
largest part of any experimental endeavour : you design an experiment to
test a hypothesis and it doesn't work and so you try to find
Derek M Jones wrote:
There was some discussion of developers working on
open source at the last conference. People might be
interested in:
Free/Libre and Open Source Software: Survey and Study
FLOSS FINAL REPORT
http://www.infonomics.nl/FLOSS/report/
In addition to this, the following
On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 01:01, Brian de Alwis wrote:
This loss of context seems to happen for two reasons: they forget
what they are doing while browsing and understanding the code
(perhaps due to information overload), or are distracted from their
original task and unable to remember what they
On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 17:19, Andree Woodcock wrote:
If any of you know of any articles/discussion groups/web sites or
are engaged in similar lines of activity please let me know
Orit Hazzan seems to be doing something similar:
On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 09:37, Marat Boshernisan wrote:
Understanding programmer's perception of program structure is central to
my Ph.D. research and unless I can find existing studies, I will run
user experiments to fill in this gap. However, at the very least, I am
hoping to find a
On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 22:47, Marat Boshernitsan wrote:
To give a bit more context for my work: I am trying to design an
intuitive (to the programmer) data model for representing Java programs
as well as a (meta)programming language for manipulating this model.
Detienne touches on some of
On Sun, 2004-09-12 at 20:53, Alex Ngai wrote:
What's your thought on the Free Software Foundation? There are lots
of open-source projects going on today. I mean, why would people
sacrifice so many man-hour into a software project, then give it all
to the public free of charge, with the source
John J. Sung wrote:
I'm interested in applying the conceptual blending theory (Fauconnier
Turner) to analyze the cognition in understanding and using programming
languages and development environments. Specifically, I'm trying to analyze
So am I, although I am more focussed on idioms. Like you, I
Carl Chilley wrote:
*Superman syndrome*. Idea from the 80s whereby you have a full size
cardboard cut-out of Superman standing behind you, over one of your
shoulders. Whenever you get a problem, you explain what it is to
Superman (the cut-out) and, in the vast majority of cases you then see a
Effie Law wrote:
I'll much appreciate if you could give me some good references for the
following topics:
(1) the distinction between software bugs and usability problems
(2) typology of fixes for software bugs
There are a whole range of software bug taxonomies. Some examples are:
IEEE
A year ago I requested that the PPIG 2003-2004 workshop papers be
made available through the PPIG website.
How is this coming along?
PS: I would like to add the PPIG 2005 papers to the request.
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I have a program that that validates input according to logical rules
(a kind of predicate calculus, i.e. it uses logic operators such as
AND, OR, NOT, EXIST, FOR-ALL).
A major restriction is that I have no influence over the rules; they
are fully configurable and governed by a standardization
Frank Wales wrote:
How designers are saving the world from programmers, since
we apparently don't know how to design things without them:
http://lostgarden.com/2006/02/software-developments-evolution.html
I've seen criticism like this many time. It usually has some good
points (like focusing
Sarah Mount wrote:
Does anyone know of literature about slips (unconscious mistakes) in
programming practice?
Andrew Ko Brad Myers, A Framework and Methodology for Studying the
Causes of Software Errors in Programming Systems, Journal of Visual
Languages and Computing, 16, 1-2, pp. 41-84,
Guzdial, Mark wrote:
The teachers using these approaches complain that our traditional
introductory courses don't prepare students for science learning. They
care more about representation (e.g., how you represent a vector is
critical for the kinds of algorithms that you write in physics),
S. Lin wrote:
Except the above books, I am having trouble finding research papers in this
area. Could anyone recommend some possible papers/authors for me?
Another book is:
Francoise Detienne, Software Design - Cognitive Aspects, Springer,
2002.
You can also find many references at:
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