Empirical studies of programmers

[Judith Segal]

Greetings.  Some in the ACT-R community will be interested in this (sorry
the fill everybody else's mailbox).

Wayne

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         EMPIRICAL STUDIES OF PROGRAMMERS: SIXTH WORKSHOP.
         WASHINGTON DC
         JAN 5TH - 7TH, 1996
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The ESP workshops are the premier forum in North America for the
presentation of both field and laboratory studies of programmers.  The
edited volumes contain journal-length and journal-quality papers and
represent much of the best work in this area.

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Friday 5th January

2.00 - 4.00    Pre-workshop tutorial: 'Zippy's TOE: a cognitive
architecture of program design'  Rob Rist
4.00 - 6.00   Registration
6.00 - 8.00   Opening Reception and Poster Session

Saturday 6th January

7.15 - 8.00   Continental-style buffet breakfast and late registration
8.00 - 9.00

Career Contribution Award to, and Address by, Thomas Green
(MRC Applied Psychology Unit, Cambridge, UK)

Deconstraining Users: Weakening the strategy implications of programming
environments.

9.00 - 10.00

Paper Session: Theories of Programming

Robert Rist: System Structure and Design

Deborah A. Boehm-Davis, Jean E. Fox & Brian H. Philips: Techniques for
exploring program comprehension

10.00 - 10.30   Break

10.30 - 12.00

Paper Session: Transfer and Maintenance

Susan Wiedenbeck & Jean Scholtz: Adaptation of programming plans in
transfer between programming languages: A development approach

Jawed Siddiqi, Rick Osborn, Chris Roast & Babak Khazaei: The pitfalls of
changing programming paradigms.

John Daly, Andrew Brooks, James Miller, Marc Roper & Murray Wood:
Evaluating the effect of inheritance on the maintainability of
object-oriented software

12.00 - 13.30  Lunch

Invited Presentation:

Francoise Detienne:

Empirical research on object-oriented design: from individuals to teams

13.30 -15.30

Paper Session: Graphical representations and display-based problem solving
and visual languages

Judith Good: The 'right' tool for the task: An investigation of external
representations, program abstractions, and task requirements.

Simon P. Davies: Display-based problem solving strategies in computer
programming

Helen Hasan, Colin Jones & Edward Gould: Prototyping tools for expert and
novice application development.

Francesmary Modugno, Albert T. Corbett & Brad A. Myers: Evaluating program
representation in a demonstrational visual shell

15.30 - 16.15  Break

16.15 - 17.45

PANEL  Dennis R. Goldenson, Robert W. Stoddard, Victor R. Basili, Khaled El
Eman & Carmel J. Trammell: The use of designed experiments in software
engineering

20.30-         Workshop Dinner and awards


Sunday 7th January

7.45 - 8.30  Continental-style buffet breakfast

8.30 - 10.00

Paper Session: Teaching Programming

Christopher M. Hoadley, Marcia C. Linn, Lydia M. Mann & Michael J. Clancy:
When, why and how do novice programmers reuse code?

Thomas C. Ormerod & Linden J. Ball: An empirical evaluation of Ted, a
techniques editor for PROLOG programming

Judith Segal: Learning about the algebraic specification of abstract data types

10.00- 10.30  Break

10.30 - 12.00

PANEL Thea Turner, Bill Curtis, Jim Herbsleb & Mike Atwood: Empirical
studies of programming organisations

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                 INVITED SPEAKERS.

Thomas Green will be given the Career Contribution Award on Saturday.  His
interests include cognitive psychology and programming language design,
interaction as an action language, cognitive dimensions of notations and
devices, and models of information artefacts.  He has inspired many by his
great enthusiasm, and is truly a pillar of the community.

Francoise Detienne, of INRIA, Paris, is co-Editor (with Rob Rist) of the
recent special issue of HCI on Object-Oriented Programming.  Her Invited
Presentation will summarize the current state of research in this area.

Rob Rist, of Sydney, Australia, has a paper in an upcoming issue of
Cognitive Science on, "Zippy," his theory of everything (TOE) related to
programming.  His pre-workshop tutorial will preview the Cognitive Science
paper and discuss features of his computational, cognitive architecture.

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                          ACCOMMODATION

ESP6 will be held at the Ramada Hotel, Alexandria, Virginia, about 15
minutes by Metro from the Capital and Museum district of Washington.  The
hotel provides free shuttle buses to and from Washington National Airport,
and to and from the nearest Metro stop.  Accommodation may be booked for
ESP attendees at the specially negotiated price of $69/room/night, single
or double.

To book accommodation, please mention ESP to get the special price and
phone (within USA) 1-800-272-6232,
 fax (USA) 703 683 7597 or write:
Ramada Hotel
Old Town,
901, N. Fairfax Street,
Alexandria, VA 22314
USA
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                  REGISTRATION FORM.


Your first name  _______________________ Your family name _________________

Your address ______________________________________________________


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Will you be attending the pre-workshop tutorial: "Zippy's TOE: A unified
theory of program design?"

Yes/No    [There is no extra charge for attending this tutorial]

Do you require wheelchair access?          Yes/No

Do you have any special dietary requirements?

No           Yes, vegetarian         Yes, Kosher

Yes, other (please specify).

Will you be arriving earlier than Friday?*        Yes/No

Will you be acccompanied by a spouse/partner?* or by child/ren?*

Spouse/partner    Yes/No             Child/children        Yes/No

Do you require extra tickets for the Opening Reception on Friday 5th or the
Workshop Dinner on Saturday 6th January at a cost of $45 per ticket?

If yes, please state how many extra tickets are required for the Reception:


Please state how many extra tickets are required for the Dinner:




Please enclose a check/money order made payable to The ESP Foundation for
$140 for students, $175 others.  Add $45 for each extra ticket for the
Opening Reception and/or Workshop Dinner.

PLEASE RETURN TO:
Dennis R. Goldenson,
Software Engineering Institute,
4500 Fifth Avenue, 3rd floor,
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-2691
 USA

The registration fee includes: the Opening Reception, continental
breakfasts Saturday & Sunday,  Saturday lunch, breaks, Workshop Dinner and
paperback Proceedings.  Extra and back copies of the Proceedings will be
available for purchase.

* There will be no formal program for early arrivals, or for accompanying
spouses or children, but informal activities may be arranged.

PLEASE NOTE: in order to book accommodation, please contact the hotel
directly as above.

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If you have queries, please contact a member of the organising committee:

Wayne Gray (gray at gmu.ed)   Co-chair

Deborah Boehm-Davis (dbdavis at gmu.ed)   Co-chair

Dennis Goldenson (dg at sei.cmu.edu)    Finance & Registration

Judith Segal (j.segal at surrey.ac.uk)   Publicity.

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