GPCE 2015
Mon 26 - Tue 27 October 2015
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Mon 26 Oct
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08:30 - 10:00
Welcome and Keynote
PLATEAU
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Grand Station 5
Chair(s):
Craig Anslow
Middlesex University, London
08:30
30m
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Organizers' Welcome
PLATEAU
09:00
60m
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PLATEAU Keynote: Computational Thinking for All: Expanding the Boundaries of Computing for Nonprogrammers
PLATEAU
Mary Beth Rosson
Pennsylvania State University
File Attached
10:30 - 12:00
Tools
PLATEAU
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Grand Station 5
Chair(s):
Thomas LaToza
George Mason University
10:30
20m
Talk
Frequency Distribution of Error Messages
PLATEAU
David Pritchard
University of Waterloo, Canada
File Attached
10:50
20m
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An Evaluation of the DiaSuite Toolset by Professional Developers
PLATEAU
Milan Kabáč
University of Bordeaux / Inria Bordeaux / LaBRI
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Nic Volanschi
Inria Bordeaux
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Charles Consel
University of Bordeaux
File Attached
11:10
20m
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Aiding Programmers using Lightweight Integrated Code Visualization
PLATEAU
Per Ola Kristensson
University of Cambridge
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Chung Leung Lam
University of Cambridge
File Attached
11:30
10m
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Towards moldable development tools
PLATEAU
Andrei Chiş
University of Bern, Switzerland
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Tudor Gîrba
tudorgirba.com, Switzerland
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Oscar Nierstrasz
University of Bern, Switzerland
DOI
Pre-print
Media Attached
File Attached
11:40
13m
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Understanding the Effects of Code Presentation
PLATEAU
Jason Jacques
University of Cambridge
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Per Ola Kristensson
University of Cambridge
File Attached
13:30 - 15:00
Programming Languages Papers
PLATEAU
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Grand Station 5
Chair(s):
Joshua Sunshine
Carnegie Mellon University
13:30
20m
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A user study for comparing the programming efficiency of modifying executable multimodal interaction descriptions. A domain-specific language versus equivalent event-callback code
PLATEAU
Fredy Cuenca
Hasselt University - tUL - iMinds
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Jan Van den Bergh
Hasselt University - tUL - iMinds
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Kris Luyten
Hasselt University - tUL - iMinds
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Karin Coninx
Hasselt University - tUL - iMinds
File Attached
13:50
20m
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A Study on the Most Popular Questions About Concurrent Programming
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Gustavo Pinto
UFPE
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Weslley Torres
Federal University of Pernambuco
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Fernando Castor
UFPE
File Attached
14:10
10m
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Comparing Transitive to Intransitive Object Immutability
PLATEAU
Michael Coblenz
Carnegie Mellon University
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Joshua Sunshine
Carnegie Mellon University
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Brad A. Myers
Carnegie Mellon University
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Sam Weber
Software Engineering Institute
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Forrest Shull
Software Engineering Institute
File Attached
14:20
13m
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Is Functional Programming Better for Modularity?
PLATEAU
Ismael Figueroa
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile
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Romain Robbes
University of Chile
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14:33
13m
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Operators and precedence in programming languages
PLATEAU
Najwani Razali
Victoria University of Wellington
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James Noble
Victoria University of Wellington
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Stuart Marshall
Victoria University of Wellington
File Attached
14:46
13m
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Some Usability Hypotheses for Verification
PLATEAU
David J. Pearce
Victoria University of Wellington
File Attached
15:30 - 17:00
Group Discussion
PLATEAU
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Grand Station 5
Chair(s):
Craig Anslow
Middlesex University, London
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Thomas LaToza
George Mason University
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Joshua Sunshine
Carnegie Mellon University
15:30
20m
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On the Need to Define Community Agreements for Controlled Experiments with Human Subjects -- A Discussion Paper
PLATEAU
Stefan Hanenberg
University of Duisburg-Essen
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Andreas Stefik
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
File Attached
15:50
70m
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PLATEAU
Tue 27 Oct
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09:00 - 10:30
Session 1
PROMOTO
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Grand Station 5
Chair(s):
Steven D. Fraser
Innoxec – Innovation Executive Services
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Alberto Sillitti
Center for Applied Software Engineering
09:00
30m
Day opening
Introduction
PROMOTO
09:30
60m
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PROMOTO Keynote: The BBC micro:bit
PROMOTO
Jonathan Protzenko
Microsoft Research
11:00 - 12:00
Session 2
PROMOTO
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Grand Station 5
11:00
30m
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Measuring the Usability and Capability of App Inventor to Create Mobile Applications
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Benjamin Xie
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Isra Shabir
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Hal Abelson
MIT
11:30
30m
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A Flow-Based Programming Framework for Mobile App development
PROMOTO
Jesse Zaman
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
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Lode Hoste
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Wolfgang De Meuter
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
13:30 - 15:30
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PROMOTO
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Grand Station 5
13:30
60m
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Promoto Keynote: Towards More Natural Programming for Mobile and Touch
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Brad A. Myers
Carnegie Mellon University
14:30
30m
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Supporting ``What-If'' in Touch-Screen Web Applications
PROMOTO
Peter Simonyi
Carleton University
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Jeff Wilson
Carleton University
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Judith Brown
Carleton University
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Robert Biddle
Carleton University
15:00
30m
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Collaborative Annotations for Large Touchscreen Web Applications
PROMOTO
Miran Mirza
Carleton University
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Jeff Wilson
Carleton University
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Robert Biddle
Carleton University
16:00 - 17:35
Session 4
PROMOTO
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Grand Station 5
16:00
30m
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Open Discussion
PROMOTO
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Grand Station 5
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Organizers' Welcome
08:30 - 09:00
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PLATEAU Keynote: Computational Thinking for All: Expanding the Boundari ...
09:00 - 10:00
PLATEAU
Frequency Distribution of Error Messages
10:30 - 10:50
PLATEAU
An Evaluation of the DiaSuite Toolset by Professional Developers
10:50 - 11:10
PLATEAU
Aiding Programmers using Lightweight Integrated Code Visualization
11:10 - 11:30
PLATEAU
Towards moldable development tools
11:30 - 11:40
PLATEAU
Understanding the Effects of Code Presentation
11:40 - 11:53
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A user study for comparing the programming efficiency of modifying exec ...
13:30 - 13:50
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A Study on the Most Popular Questions About Concurrent Programming
13:50 - 14:10
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Comparing Transitive to Intransitive Object Immutability
14:10 - 14:20
PLATEAU
Is Functional Programming Better for Modularity?
14:20 - 14:33
PLATEAU
Operators and precedence in programming languages
14:33 - 14:46
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Some Usability Hypotheses for Verification
14:46 - 14:59
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On the Need to Define Community Agreements for Controlled Experiments w ...
15:30 - 15:50
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15:50 - 17:00
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Grand Station 5
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Introduction
09:00 - 09:30
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PROMOTO Keynote: The BBC micro:bit
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Measuring the Usability and Capability of App Inventor to Create Mobile ...
11:00 - 11:30
PROMOTO
A Flow-Based Programming Framework for Mobile App development
11:30 - 12:00
PROMOTO
Promoto Keynote: Towards More Natural Programming for Mobile and Touch
13:30 - 14:30
PROMOTO
Supporting ``What-If'' in Touch-Screen Web Applications
14:30 - 15:00
PROMOTO
Collaborative Annotations for Large Touchscreen Web Applications
15:00 - 15:30
PROMOTO
Demos
16:00 - 16:30
PROMOTO
Open Discussion
16:30 - 17:00
PROMOTO
Closing
17:00 - 17:35
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