Research PapersVL/HCC 2023
Wed 4 OctDisplayed time zone: Eastern Time (US & Canada) change
11:00 - 12:30 | Session on Tangible User InterfacesPosters and Showpieces / Research Papers at Auditorium Chair(s): Michael Coblenz University of California, San Diego | ||
11:00 30mTalk | The IoT Codex: a Book of Programmable Stickers for Authoring and Composing Embedded Computing Applications Research Papers | ||
11:30 30mTalk | TangiBooks. Design and Creation of Paper-Based Tangibles with Embedded Electronics for Teaching Programming Concepts Research Papers A: David Wong-Aitken , A: Parsa Rajabi , A: Sheelagh Carpendale , A: Parmit Chilana Simon Fraser University | ||
12:00 15mTalk | Coder and Coder Cards: A Novel Tangible Programming Approach to Support Young Programmers Research Papers A: Yuhan Lin University of Maryland, A: David Weintrop University of Maryland, A: Jason McKenna VEX Robotics | ||
14:00 - 15:30 | |||
14:00 30mTalk | FxD: a functional debugger for dysfunctional spreadsheets Research Papers A: Ian Drosos Microsoft Research, A: Nicholas Wilson , A: Sruti Srinivasa Ragavan Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, A: Jack Williams Microsoft Research, Cambridge, A: Andrew D. Gordon Microsoft Research and University of Edinburgh | ||
14:30 30mTalk | End-user programming is WEIRD: how, why and what to do about it Research Papers A: Harshit Goel , A: Aayush Kumar , A: Sruti Srinivasa Ragavan Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur | ||
15:00 30mTalk | Octave: an End-user Programming Environment for Analysis of Spatiotemporal Data for Construction Students Research Papers A: Daniel Manesh Virginia Tech, A: Andy Luu , A: Mohammad Khalid , A: Chinedu Okonkwo , A: Abiola Akanmu , A: Ibukun Awolusi The University of Texas at San Antonio, A: Homero Murzi Virginia Tech, USA, A: Sang Won Lee Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | ||
16:00 - 17:00 | Session on Projectional EditingResearch Papers at Auditorium Chair(s): Jácome Cunha Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto & HASLab/INESC | ||
16:00 30mTalk | Projectional Editors for JSON-Based DSLs Research Papers Pre-print | ||
16:30 30mTalk | Gradual Structure Editing with Obligations Research Papers A: David Moon University of Michigan, A: Andrew Blinn University of Michigan, A: Cyrus Omar University of Michigan Pre-print | ||
18:30 - 20:30 | |||
18:30 2hDinner | Reception at Crimson Whiskey Bar Research Papers | ||
Thu 5 OctDisplayed time zone: Eastern Time (US & Canada) change
11:00 - 12:30 | Session on Large Language Models, NLP and DocumentationResearch Papers at Auditorium Chair(s): Sandeep Kuttal North Carolina State University | ||
11:00 30mTalk | ColDeco: An End User Spreadsheet Inspection Tool for AI-Generated Code Research Papers A: Kasra Ferdowsi University of California at San Diego, A: Jack Williams Microsoft Research, Cambridge, A: Ian Drosos Microsoft Research, A: Andrew D. Gordon Microsoft Research and University of Edinburgh, A: Carina Negreanu Microsoft Research, UK, A: Nadia Polikarpova University of California at San Diego, A: Advait Sarkar Microsoft Research and University of Cambridge, A: Benjamin Zorn Microsoft Research | ||
11:30 30mTalk | Exploring the Role of AI Assistants in Computer Science Education: Methods, Implications, and Instructor Perspectives Research Papers A: Tianjia Wang , A: Daniel Vargas-Diaz , A: Chris Brown Virginia Tech, A: Yan Chen Virginia Tech, USA | ||
12:00 15mTalk | Procedural Justice and Fairness in Automated Resume Parsers for Tech Hiring: Insights from Candidate Perspectives Research Papers | ||
12:15 15mTalk | Support for Long-Form Documentation Authoring and Maintenance Research Papers | ||
14:00 - 15:33 | Session on Visual Languages and Graphical User InterfacesPosters and Showpieces / Research Papers at Auditorium Chair(s): Jeremiah Blanchard University of Florida | ||
14:00 30mTalk | Towards a Visual Language for Sketched Expression of Software IDE Commands Research Papers | ||
14:30 30mTalk | Domain-specific probabilistic programming with Multiverse Explorer Research Papers A: Alan Blackwell University of Cambridge, A: Alex Raymond , A: Colton Botta University of Cambridge, A: Matthew Keenan , A: Will Hayter-Dalgliesh | ||
15:00 15mTalk | DocDancer: Authoring Ultra-responsive Documents with Layout Generation Research Papers A: Yuexi Chen University of Maryland, College Park, A: Zhicheng Liu , A: Christopher Tensmeyer , A: Niklas Elmqvist University of Maryland, College Park, A: Vlad Morariu | ||
16:00 - 17:00 | Session on Code Search, and Specification PracticesResearch Papers at Auditorium Chair(s): Parmit Chilana Simon Fraser University | ||
16:00 30mTalk | RunEx: Augmenting Regular-Expression Code Search with Runtime Values Research Papers | ||
16:30 30mTalk | A Qualitative Study of REST API Design and Specification Practices Research Papers A: Michael Coblenz University of California, San Diego, A: Wentao Guo , A: Kamatchi Voozhian , A: Jeffrey S. Foster Tufts University | ||
19:00 - 21:00 | |||
19:00 2hDinner | Conference Banquet and Awards at Hill Country Research Papers | ||
Fri 6 OctDisplayed time zone: Eastern Time (US & Canada) change
11:00 - 12:30 | Session on Computer Science EducationResearch Papers at Auditorium Chair(s): Sandeep Kuttal North Carolina State University | ||
11:00 30mTalk | MOON: Assisting Students in Completing Educational Notebook Scenarios Research Papers A: Christophe Casseau Univ. Bordeaux, Bordeaux INP, CNRS, LaBRI, UMR5800, A: Jean-Rémy Falleri Bordeaux INP, A: Thomas Degueule CNRS, LaBRI, A: Xavier Blanc Univ. Bordeaux, Bordeaux INP, CNRS, LaBRI, UMR5800 | ||
11:30 15mTalk | Exploring the Barriers and Factors that Influence Debugger Usage for Students Research Papers A: Minhyuk Ko Virginia Tech, A: Dibyendu Brinto Bose Graduate Student, A: Hemayet Ahmed Chowdhury , A: Mohammed Seyam Virginia Tech, A: Chris Brown Virginia Tech | ||
11:45 15mTalk | Participatory Design with Teachers for Block-based Learning with SnapClass Research Papers A: Ally Limke North Carolina State University, A: Nicholas Lytle North Carolina State University, A: Sana Mahmoud , A: Maggie Lin , A: Marnie Hill NC State University, A: Veronica Catete North Carolina State University, A: Tiffany Barnes North Carolina State University | ||
12:00 15mTalk | Exploring Novices' Struggle and Progress during Programming through Data-Driven Detectors and Think-Aloud Protocols Research Papers A: Benyamin Tabarsi North Carolina State University, A: Heidi Reichert , A: Rachel Qualls , A: Thomas Price North Carolina State University, A: Tiffany Barnes North Carolina State University | ||
12:15 15mTalk | Supporting End-to-End Coding and Use of Arduinos in a Formal Classroom Environment Research Papers A: David Magda University of Florida, A: Christina Gardner-McCune Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA, A: Abhishek Kulkarni University of Florida, A: Yerika Jimenez University of Florida, A: Sharon Chu University of Florida | ||
14:00 - 15:15 | Session on Data Science and Data AnalyticsResearch Papers at Auditorium Chair(s): Ian Drosos Microsoft Research | ||
14:00 30mTalk | Detangler: Helping Data Scientists Explore, Understand, and Debug Data Wrangling Pipelines Research Papers A: Nischal Shrestha , A: Bhavya Chopra Microsoft, A: Austin Z. Henley Microsoft, A: Chris Parnin North Carolina State University | ||
14:30 30mTalk | How I Met Your Data Science Team: A Tale of Effective Communication Research Papers A: Aayushi Roy University of Maryland, College Park, A: Deepthi Raghunandan , A: Niklas Elmqvist University of Maryland, College Park, A: Leilani Battle | ||
15:00 15mTalk | WhatsNext: Guidance-enriched Exploratory Data Analysis with Interactive, Low-Code Notebooks Research Papers A: Chen Chen , A: Jane Hoffswell , A: Shunan Guo , A: Ryan Rossi , A: Yeuk-Yin Chan , A: Fan Du , A: Eunyee Koh , A: Zhicheng Liu | ||
15:15 - 15:30 | |||
15:15 15mDay closing | Closing Session Research Papers | ||
Accepted Papers
Call for Research Papers
Scope and Topics
We solicit original, unpublished research papers on computing technologies for modeling, programming, communicating, and reasoning, which are easier to learn, use or understand by humans than the current state-of-the-art. Papers should focus on efforts to design, formalize, implement, or evaluate those technologies and languages. This includes technologies intended for general audiences (e.g., professional or novice programmers, or the public) or domain-specific audiences (e.g., people working in business administration, production environments, healthcare, urban design or scientific domains). Empirical papers that validate current proposed solutions with rigorous scientific means (i.e., empirical studies, controlled experiments, rigorous case studies, etc.) are also welcome.
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Visual languages: Novel visual languages, Design, evaluation, and theory of visual languages and applications, Development of systems for manipulating and interacting with diagrammatic representations
- Human aspects and psychology of software development and language design, such as supporting inclusion and diversity in programming
- End-user development: End-user development, adaptation and programming, Creation and evaluation of technologies and infrastructures for end-user development
- Crowdsourcing design and development work
- Representations: Novel representations and user interfaces for expressing computation, Software, algorithm and data visualization
- Modeling: Model-driven development, Domain-specific languages, including modeling languages, Visual modeling of human behavior and socio-technical systems
- Thinking more deeply about code: Computational thinking and Computer Science education, Debugging and program understanding, Explainable ML/AI
If you are not sure if your paper is a good fit for VL/HCC, feel free to email the PC Co-chairs (see “Contact” below). We welcome those new to the VL/HCC community to submit!
Special Emphasis for 2023: Low-Code / No-Code Development
This year’s special topic is “Low-Code / No-Code Development”. This development paradigm enables the creation and deployment of fully functional applications using visual abstractions and interfaces and requiring little or no procedural code. This way, users are empowered to create software applications for constrained domains, even if they lack a programming background. This year, we especially welcome papers at VL/HCC that design, build, or evaluate any aspects of low-code and no-code solutions.
Paper Submissions
We invite two kinds of papers:
- full-length research papers, up to 8 pages - plus unlimited additional pages containing only references and/or acknowledgements
- short research papers, up to 4 pages - plus unlimited additional pages containing only references and/or acknowledgements
Papers must be submitted using the IEEE two-column conference paper format. Be sure to use the current IEEE conference paper format (which was updated in 2019), and to select the “US letter” template: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html
Papers should be submitted via the EasyChair system.
To facilitate the assigning of papers to reviewers, we require paper abstracts to be submitted via EasyChair at least 1 week prior to the paper submission deadline (see Important Dates below). The abstract must be kept up to date such that it matches exactly the abstract in the submitted paper. The abstract must be no longer than 250 words.
All accepted papers, whether full or short, should be complete, self-contained, archival contributions. Contributions from full papers are more extensive than those from short papers. Note that some full paper submissions may be accepted as short papers if reviewers deem contributions to be comparable in size to a short paper. Work-in-progress, which has not yet yielded an archival contribution, should be submitted to the Posters/Showpieces category. All submissions will be reviewed by members of the Program Committee in a double-blind review process. Authors will then receive the reviews for their submissions and will be able to answer them in a rebuttal phase. Only after this step the PC will make a final decision about the acceptance of the submissions. Submissions and reviews for the technical program are managed with EasyChair. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register for VL/HCC 2023 and present the paper at the conference. There will be a virtual presentation option in case of travel restrictions. IEEE reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference, including IEEE Xplore Digital Library, if the paper is not presented by the author at the conference.
The proceedings of IEEE VL/HCC are published in digital form by the IEEE Computer Science Society and archived in the IEEE Digital Library with an official ISBN number. Accepted papers will be available to conference attendees via the IEEE Open Preview program in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/).
Double-blind Reviewing
We follow a double-blind reviewing process. Both authors and reviewers are expected to make every effort to honor the double-blind reviewing process. In case of questions, please contact the Program Chairs. Authors should ensure that the submission can be evaluated without it being obvious who wrote the paper. This means leaving author names off the paper and using terms like “previous research” rather than “our previous research” when describing background. However, do not hide previous work – papers must still reference all relevant research using full (non-anonymized) citations, including the author’s own prior work, so that reviewers can evaluate novelty. Please reference your own prior work in the third-person just like you would do for any other related work (e.g., avoid “As described in our previous work [10], … ” and instead write something like “As described by [10], …”). It is also important that authors specify all conflicts of interest with potential reviewers during the submission phase.
Reviewers should not undertake any investigation that might lead to the revealing of authors’ identity. If identities are inadvertently revealed, please contact the Program Chairs.
The Program Chairs will check all submissions for obvious signs of lack of anonymity and may ask authors to make changes and resubmit the paper within three days of the submission deadline. Only changes to resolve anonymity issues will be permitted.
Evaluation and Justification
Papers are expected to support their claims with appropriate evidence. For example, a paper that claims to improve programmer productivity is expected to demonstrate improved productivity; a paper that claims to be easier to use should demonstrate increased ease of use.
However, not all claims necessarily need to be supported with empirical evidence or studies with people. For example, a paper that claims to make something feasible that was clearly infeasible might substantiate its claim through the existence of a functioning prototype.
Moreover, there are many alternatives to empirical evidence that may be appropriate for justifying claims, including analytical methods, formal arguments or case studies. Given this criterion, we encourage potential authors to think carefully about what claims their submission makes and what evidence would adequately support these claims. In addition, we expect short papers to have less comprehensive evaluation than long papers.
Important Dates
- Abstracts only: April 28, 2023
- Submission deadline: May 12, 2023
- Rebuttal phase: June 12 - 16, 2023
- Notification: June 30, 2023
- Camera-ready: July 21, 2023
All deadlines are AoE.
Contact
PC Co-Chairs:
- Philip Guo (University of California San Diego, United States)
- Esther Guerra (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain)
- Contact email: vlhcc2023@googlegroups.com