Tue 7 - Fri 10 October 2025 Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Fri 10 Oct 2025 14:00 - 14:11 at Duke Energy Hall - Advanced Code Generation Paradigms Chair(s): Cyrus Omar

It is well-known that people diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder experience difficulty coping with change. However, the extent to which this applies to small changes in user interface design is not known. Through exposing autistic (n=11) and control (n=10) users to seven controlled, cumulative design changes within an e-calendar appointment creation interface, and systematically recording usability scores, a bespoke comfortability score and qualitative responses, we confirm that the autistic discomfort around change extends to small changes in user interface design, negatively impacting system usability and comfortability scores consistently in the autistic group for some tests. To widen the applicability of our findings for industry use and promote further research in this under-explored yet critical area, we also transform our results into preliminary non-exhaustive design heuristics for reducing negative impacts of interface design changes in autistic users.

Fri 10 Oct

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14:00 - 15:30
Advanced Code Generation ParadigmsResearch Papers at Duke Energy Hall
Chair(s): Cyrus Omar University of Michigan
14:00
11m
Talk
Interface Design for Autism in an Ever-Updating World
Research Papers
Lewis Sawyer University of Kent, Ramaswamy Palaniappan University of Kent
Pre-print
14:11
22m
Talk
HiLDe: Intentional Code Generation via Human-in-the-Loop Decoding
Research Papers
Emmanuel Anaya Gonzalez UCSD, Raven Rothkopf University of California San Diego, Sorin Lerner University of California at San Diego, Nadia Polikarpova University of California at San Diego
14:33
22m
Talk
Exploring Direct Instruction and Summary-Mediated Prompting in LLM-Assisted Code Modification
Research Papers
Ningzhi Tang University of Notre Dame, Emory Smith University of Notre Dame, Yu Huang Vanderbilt University, Collin McMillan University of Notre Dame, Toby Jia-Jun Li University of Notre Dame
Pre-print
14:55
22m
Talk
A Type Language for Blockly
Research Papers
Robin Stunic Fernuniversität in Hagen, Friedrich Steimann Fernuniversität in Hagen
15:17
11m
Talk
TreeReader: a hierarchical academic paper reader powered by language models
Research Papers
Zijian Zhang University of Toronto, Pan Chen University of Toronto, Fangshi Du University of Toronto, Runlong Ye University of Toronto, Oliver Huang University of Toronto, Michael Liut University of Toronto Mississauga, Alán Aspuru-Guzik University of Toronto