‹Programming› 2022
Mon 11 - Thu 14 April 2022
Wed 16 Mar 2022 06:15 - 06:30 at PX Online - PX/22 Chair(s): Luke Church, Richard P. Gabriel, Robert Hirschfeld, Hidehiko Masuhara

Researchers conducting studies on programming tools often make use of maintenance tasks. The complexity of these tasks can influence the behavior of participants significantly. At the same time, the complexity of tasks is difficult to pinpoint due to the many sources of complexity for maintenance tasks. As a result, researchers may struggle to deliberately decide in which regard their tasks should be complex and in which regard they should be simple.

To help researchers make more deliberate decisions about the complexity of their tasks, we discuss different factors of task complexity. We draw these factors from previous user studies on programming tools as well as from a task complexity model from ergonomics research that we apply to maintenance tasks. In the end, task complexity might always be too complex to be fully controlled. Nevertheless, we hope that our discussion helps other researchers to decide in which dimensions their tasks are complex and in which dimensions they want to keep them simple.

Wed 16 Mar

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05:00 - 08:00
PX/22PX/22 at PX Online
Chair(s): Luke Church University of Cambridge | Lund University | Lark Systems, Richard P. Gabriel Dream Songs, Inc. & HPI, Robert Hirschfeld HPI, University of Potsdam, Hidehiko Masuhara Tokyo Institute of Technology
05:00
15m
Talk
Programming in an fMRI Scanner: A Report from the Field
PX/22
Steven Tanimoto University of Washington, Seattle, Rob Thompson , Todd Richards , Cheri Yates , Virginia Berninger
05:15
15m
Talk
let chart = ⊥; let song = ♩; // Embedding Visual Languages in Code
PX/22
Elliot Evans Polytope
05:30
15m
Talk
An Experiment in Live Collaborative Programming on the Croquet Shared Experience Platform
PX/22
Yoshiki Ohshima Croquet Studios, Aran Lunzer Croquet Corporation, Jenn Evans , Vanessa Freudenberg Croquet Corp, Brian Upton , David Smith
05:45
15m
Talk
Calling Cards: Concrete Visual End-User Programming
PX/22
Michael Homer Victoria University of Wellington
06:00
15m
Talk
CodeMap: a Graphical Note-Taking Tool Cooperating with an Integrated Development Environment
PX/22
Rikito Taniguchi Tokyo Institute of Technology, Hidehiko Masuhara Tokyo Institute of Technology
06:15
15m
Talk
Toward Understanding Task Complexity in Maintenance-based Studies of Programming Tools
PX/22
Patrick Rein Hasso Plattner Institute, Tom Beckmann Hasso Plattner Institute, Toni Mattis Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Robert Hirschfeld HPI, University of Potsdam
06:30
15m
Talk
Example Mining - Assisting Example Creation to Enhance Code Comprehension
PX/22
Eva Krebs Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI), University of Potsdam, Germany, Patrick Rein Hasso Plattner Institute, Robert Hirschfeld HPI, University of Potsdam
06:45
15m
Talk
A Live Environment to Improve the Refactoring Experience
PX/22
Sara Fernandes FEUP, Universidade do Porto, Ademar Aguiar FEUP, Universidade do Porto, André Restivo LIACC, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
07:00
15m
Talk
Crosscut — Drawing Dynamic Representations
PX/22
Szymon Kaliski , Ivan Reese Ink&Switch, Marcel Goethals Ink&Switch
07:15
45m
Other
Open discussion
PX/22