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Workshop 11 web page
Co-Chairs
Jill Drury, The MITRE Corporation, USA
Charles van der Mast, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
CHI 99 Conference Office
703 Giddings Ave.
Suite U-3
Annapolis, MD 21401
USA
Tel: +1 410 263 5382
Fax: +1 410 267 0332
Email: chi99-help@acm.org
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Carol Traynor, St. Anselm College, USA
Howie Goodell, Micrion Corporation, USA
End-User Programming has not met expectations: today's computer world is
dominated by "fatware" programs with hundreds of features, not simple
applications built by the users themselves. Yet, a strange convergence is
occurring between roles of programmers and end-users. Professional programmers
become end users of complex IDEs (Integrated Development Environments)
indistinguishable from tools for non-programmers. A new group we call
"blended-user programmers" has appeared -- professional application experts
without software degrees, e.g. web designers or GUI programmers. Major end-user
applications support a continuum of programming tools; advanced users may move
into these new software careers.
This workshop will re-evaluate insights of classical end-user programming to
understand the converging programming world. Questions it may address:
- What are useful boundaries of "programming" in an environment of check-box customization?
- What are appropriate programming abilities for schoolchildren and adults to learn?
- What are commonalties/differences between new areas of blended-user programming and forms studied earlier?
- What technical and social interactions develop when "real" programmers with computer science degrees work with blended-user programmers?
- Do certificate courses primarily expand blended-user programmers' repertoire of tinkering, or make them more analytical?
Fifteen experts in end-user programming or with psychology and sociology of
programming backgrounds will be selected based on position papers (2-4 pages).
If appropriate, these may be published as a book to inform research and
practice in this emerging area.
More information is on the workshop's web page.
Contact:
Carol Traynor
St. Anselm College
100 St. Anselm Drive
Manchester, NH 03102 USA
Tel: +1 603 656 6021
Email: ctraynor@anselm.edu
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