ICSE 2024
Fri 12 - Sun 21 April 2024 Lisbon, Portugal
Wed 17 Apr 2024 14:15 - 14:30 at Amália Rodrigues - Evolution 1 Chair(s): Jonathan Sillito

Programming industrial robots is difficult and expensive. Although recent work has made substantial progress in making it accessible to a wider range of users, it is often limited to simple programs and its usability remains untested in practice. In this article, we introduce Duplo, a block-based programming environment that allows end-users to program two-armed robots and solve tasks that require coordination. Duplo positions the program for each arm side-by-side, using the spatial relationship between blocks from each program to represent parallelism in a way that end-users can easily understand. This design was proposed by previous work but not implemented or evaluated in a realistic programming setting. We performed a randomized experiment with 52 participants that evaluated Duplo on a complex programming task that contained several sub-tasks. We compared Duplo with RobotStudio Online YuMi, a commercial solution, and found that Duplo allowed participants to solve the same task faster and with greater success. By analyzing the information collected during our user study, we further identified factors that explain this performance difference, as well as remaining barriers, such as debugging issues and difficulties in interacting with the robot. This work represents another step towards allowing a wider audience of non-professionals to program, which might enable the broader deployment of robotics.

Wed 17 Apr

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14:00 - 15:30
14:00
15m
Talk
Large Language Models are Few-Shot Summarizers: Multi-Intent Comment Generation via In-Context Learning
Research Track
Mingyang Geng National University of Defense Technology, Shangwen Wang National University of Defense Technology, Dezun Dong NUDT, Haotian Wang National University of Defense Technolog, Ge Li Peking University, Zhi Jin Peking University, Xiaoguang Mao National University of Defense Technology, Liao Xiangke National University of Defense Technology
DOI Pre-print
14:15
15m
Talk
Block-based Programming for Two-Armed Robots: A Comparative Study
Research Track
Felipe Fronchetti Virginia Commonwealth University, Nico Ritschel University of British Columbia, Logan Schorr Virginia Commonwealth University, Chandler Barfield Virginia Commonwealth University, Gabriella Chang Virginia Commonwealth University, Rodrigo Spinola Virginia Commonwealth University, Reid Holmes University of British Columbia, David C. Shepherd Louisiana State University
DOI Pre-print Media Attached
14:30
15m
Talk
Exploiting Library Vulnerability via Migration Based Automating Test Generation
Research Track
Zirui Chen , Xing Hu Zhejiang University, Xin Xia Huawei Technologies, Yi Gao Zhejiang University, Tongtong Xu Huawei, David Lo Singapore Management University, Xiaohu Yang Zhejiang University
14:45
15m
Talk
ReposVul: A Repository-Level High-Quality Vulnerability Dataset
Industry Challenge Track
Xinchen Wang Harbin Institute of Technology, Ruida Hu Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, Cuiyun Gao Harbin Institute of Technology, Xin-Cheng Wen Harbin Institute of Technology, Yujia Chen Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, Qing Liao Harbin Institute of Technology
15:00
7m
Talk
JOG: Java JIT Peephole Optimizations and Tests from Patterns
Demonstrations
Zhiqiang Zang The University of Texas at Austin, Aditya Thimmaiah The University of Texas at Austin, Milos Gligoric The University of Texas at Austin
DOI Pre-print
15:07
7m
Talk
Predicting the Change Impact of Resolving Defects by Leveraging the Topics of Issue Reports in Open Source Software Systems
Journal-first Papers
Maram Assi Queen's University, Safwat Hassan University of Toronto, Canada, Stefanos Georgiou Queen's University, Ying Zou Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
15:14
7m
Talk
Assessing the Exposure of Software Changes
Journal-first Papers
Mehran Meidani University of Waterloo, Maxime Lamothe Polytechnique Montreal, Shane McIntosh University of Waterloo
Link to publication Pre-print
15:21
7m
Talk
Responding to change over time: A longitudinal case study on changes in coordination mechanisms in large‑scale agile
Journal-first Papers
Marthe Berntzen University of Oslo, Viktoria Stray University of Oslo, Nils Brede Moe , Rashina Hoda Monash University