Visual Programming in a Visual Domain: A Case Study of Cognitive Dimensions

Autor: Francesmary Modugno, T R G Green, Brad A Myers, Gilbert Cockton, Stephen Draper, George R. S. Weir
Rok vydání: 2010
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Zdroj: BCS HCI
DOI: 10.1017/cbo9780511600821.009
Popis: We present a new visual programming language and environment that serves as a form of feedback and representation in a Programming by Demonstration system The language di ers from existing visual languages because it explicitly represents data objects and implicitly represents operations by changes in data objects The system was designed to provide non programmers with programming support for common repetitive tasks and incorporates some principles of cognition to assist these users in learning to use it With this in mind we analyzed the language and its editor along cognitive dimensions The assessment provided insight into both strengths and weaknesses of the system prompting a number of design changes This demonstrates how useful such an analysis can be
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