Re: emotions and programming

2013-02-22 Thread Flavius Aspra
Yeah, somehow I've cracked them though, or at least they're somehow
more receptive.

Even with harsh words, but without answering to their provocations and
not talking about people.

On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 10:07 PM, Raoul Duke  wrote:
>> To see emotions and programming in practice, please have a look at [1]
>
> er, i think that 99.9% of all coding has subjective emotions involved.
> if one is going to post urls, it should be to the 0.1% of times when
> they do *not* ;-).
>
> i mean even if you say that statics aren't good in oo is technical,
> you can always get into possibly subjective emotional arguments about
> how bad oo is to begin with!
>
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Re: emotions and programming

2013-02-22 Thread Raoul Duke
> To see emotions and programming in practice, please have a look at [1]

er, i think that 99.9% of all coding has subjective emotions involved.
if one is going to post urls, it should be to the 0.1% of times when
they do *not* ;-).

i mean even if you say that statics aren't good in oo is technical,
you can always get into possibly subjective emotional arguments about
how bad oo is to begin with!

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Re: emotions and programming

2013-02-22 Thread Flavius Aspra
Hi

To see emotions and programming in practice, please have a look at [1]

[1] https://plus.google.com/u/0/107047216886809435181/posts/4xaFd8mymBa

On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 4:49 PM, Judith Good  wrote:
> Raoul,
>
> Thanks for the feedback.
>
> The Subtle Stones (the tangible devices) were developed by Madeline Balaam as 
> part of her PhD research, and were originally designed to be used by 
> secondary school students in language learning classes.  She went through a 
> careful process of learner-centred design before arriving at the final 
> prototype: more details can be found in her thesis:
>
> http://prism.talis.com/sussex-ac/items/1021682
>
> When designing the desktop application, we incorporated features that arose 
> from the empirical work carried out with the Subtle Stones (e.g. ability to 
> record more than one emotion simultaneously, report on degrees of emotion, 
> etc.) into the design.  However, I would be the first to admit that the 
> application would have benefited from more development time and a more 
> thorough round of user testing.
>
> We are now using a variation of the Subtle Stones in a study with families 
> who have children with Autism Spectrum Conditions, given the multiple 
> difficulties the children often experience with respect to emotion (e.g. 
> recognising emotions in themselves and others, acting on emotions in 
> appropriate ways, etc.).  Although the devices worked well in the classroom, 
> they are presenting some problems "in the wild", e.g. batteries run out 
> quickly, are a pain for family members to change and, as one child said, 
> "They look like they should bounce, but they don't." ;-)
>
> Although I feel that the idea behind the devices is well worth exploring, the 
> actual format of the devices is still completely open, so thank you for your 
> thoughts on improving them!
>
> Judith
>
> On 20 Feb 2013, at 00:18, Raoul Duke wrote:
>
>>> Self-Reporting emotional experiences in computing lab sessions: an 
>>> emotional regulation perspective
>>> Judith Good, Jon Rimmer, Eric Harris and Madeline Balaam
>>
>> i'm curious how the 2 devices for recording emotional state were
>> thought up - i had immediate reactions, thoughts about what i
>> off-the-cuff (subjective, unresearched) see as negative issues with
>> them and ideas about what would be better. of course it often depends
>> on what resources are available, both for the physical in-hand device
>> and the software one.
>>
>> overall the hair-brained vision i have in my head is a set of cubes,
>> with a rudimentary motion sensor inside. emoticons on the faces.
>> multiple cubes to allow for multiple dimensions.
>>
>> sincerely.
>>
>> --
>> The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt 
>> charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302).
>
>



Re: emotions and programming

2013-02-20 Thread Judith Good
Raoul,

Thanks for the feedback.

The Subtle Stones (the tangible devices) were developed by Madeline Balaam as 
part of her PhD research, and were originally designed to be used by secondary 
school students in language learning classes.  She went through a careful 
process of learner-centred design before arriving at the final prototype: more 
details can be found in her thesis: 

http://prism.talis.com/sussex-ac/items/1021682

When designing the desktop application, we incorporated features that arose 
from the empirical work carried out with the Subtle Stones (e.g. ability to 
record more than one emotion simultaneously, report on degrees of emotion, 
etc.) into the design.  However, I would be the first to admit that the 
application would have benefited from more development time and a more thorough 
round of user testing.

We are now using a variation of the Subtle Stones in a study with families who 
have children with Autism Spectrum Conditions, given the multiple difficulties 
the children often experience with respect to emotion (e.g. recognising 
emotions in themselves and others, acting on emotions in appropriate ways, 
etc.).  Although the devices worked well in the classroom, they are presenting 
some problems "in the wild", e.g. batteries run out quickly, are a pain for 
family members to change and, as one child said, "They look like they should 
bounce, but they don't." ;-)  

Although I feel that the idea behind the devices is well worth exploring, the 
actual format of the devices is still completely open, so thank you for your 
thoughts on improving them!

Judith

On 20 Feb 2013, at 00:18, Raoul Duke wrote:

>> Self-Reporting emotional experiences in computing lab sessions: an emotional 
>> regulation perspective
>> Judith Good, Jon Rimmer, Eric Harris and Madeline Balaam
> 
> i'm curious how the 2 devices for recording emotional state were
> thought up - i had immediate reactions, thoughts about what i
> off-the-cuff (subjective, unresearched) see as negative issues with
> them and ideas about what would be better. of course it often depends
> on what resources are available, both for the physical in-hand device
> and the software one.
> 
> overall the hair-brained vision i have in my head is a set of cubes,
> with a rudimentary motion sensor inside. emoticons on the faces.
> multiple cubes to allow for multiple dimensions.
> 
> sincerely.
> 
> -- 
> The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt 
> charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302).




Re: emotions and programming

2013-02-19 Thread Raoul Duke
> Self-Reporting emotional experiences in computing lab sessions: an emotional 
> regulation perspective
> Judith Good, Jon Rimmer, Eric Harris and Madeline Balaam

i'm curious how the 2 devices for recording emotional state were
thought up - i had immediate reactions, thoughts about what i
off-the-cuff (subjective, unresearched) see as negative issues with
them and ideas about what would be better. of course it often depends
on what resources are available, both for the physical in-hand device
and the software one.

overall the hair-brained vision i have in my head is a set of cubes,
with a rudimentary motion sensor inside. emoticons on the faces.
multiple cubes to allow for multiple dimensions.

sincerely.

-- 
The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt 
charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302).



Re: emotions and programming

2013-02-18 Thread Judith Good
Hi Chris,

Jon Rimmer and I presented two papers at PPIG in 2011 which might be relevant 
(the second one in particular):

Class participation and shyness: affect and learning to program [short paper]
Jon Rimmer, Judith Good, Eric Harris and Madeline Balaam

Self-Reporting emotional experiences in computing lab sessions: an emotional 
regulation perspective
Judith Good, Jon Rimmer, Eric Harris and Madeline Balaam

If you don't have a copy of the proceedings, let me know and I'll send you 
these papers.

Cheers,
Judith

On 17 Feb 2013, at 15:46, chris martin wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> 
> I was wondering is anyone has come across work looking at the emotional 
> response people have to programming?
> 
> I have been running some studies with undergrads and looking at the emotion 
> they report they experience and why. I'm hoping to locate this the literature 
> an it is proving quite tricky to search for in digital libraries!
> 
> 
> cheers,
> Chris
> 
> 
> 
> The University of Dundee is a Scottish Registered Charity, No. SC015096.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Re: emotions and programming

2013-02-17 Thread Jan Erik Moström
Hi,

I don't know if this is what you're looking for but with have written some
papers where we comment emotional reactions from students when learning to
program. Not the major topic of the papers but a few things are there.

- jem

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Re: emotions and programming

2013-02-17 Thread Derek M Jones

Chris,


I was wondering is anyone has come across work looking at the emotional 
response people have to programming?


What emotions are you interested in?
This study looked at risk attitude of professional developers
as an explanation for coding decisions:
http://www.knosof.co.uk/dev-experiment/accu11.html


I have been running some studies with undergrads and looking at the emotion 
they report they experience and why. I'm hoping to locate this the literature 
an it is proving quite tricky to search for in digital libraries!


Enjoyment is a much underrated emotion in all work activities
(at least for the people who are good at it).

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Knowledge Software Ltd  blog:shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com
Software analysis   http://www.knosof.co.uk

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