Usability of Programming Languages: Special Interest Group (SIG) Meeting at CHI 2016
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
1-1-2016
Publication Title
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery
Volume
07-12-May-2016
First page number:
1104
Last page number:
1107
Abstract
Programming languages form the interface between programmers (the users) and the computation that they desire the computer to execute. Although studies exist for some aspects of programming language design (such as conditionals), other aspects have received little or no human factors evaluations. Designers thus have little they can rely on if they want to make new languages highly usable, and users cannot easily chose a language based on usability criteria. This SIG will bring together researchers and practitioners interested in increasing the depth and breadth of studies on the usability of programming languages, and ultimately in improving the usability of future languages. © 2016 Authors.
Keywords
API usability; Empirical studies of programmers; Enduser software engineering (EUSE); Programming language usability; Psychology of programming
Language
English
Repository Citation
Myers, B. A.,
Stefik, A.,
Hanenberg, S.,
Kaijanaho, A.,
Burnett, M.,
Turbak, F.,
Wadler, P.
(2016).
Usability of Programming Languages: Special Interest Group (SIG) Meeting at CHI 2016.
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings, 07-12-May-2016
1104-1107.
Association for Computing Machinery.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2851581.2886434