Psychology of Programming Interest Group
Annual Conference 2011

University of York

6 - 8 September 2011

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Pictures

If you were not there - this is what you missed.

If you were there, then here are some reminders. If you want to add any pictures then send them to Alistair

Gerrit van der Veer discussing service design

de Moubray's Musick

PPIG Logo: Pig-man seated at a table

Programme

Monday 5th September

7.00 pm

(approx - can arrive a bit later) For those registered to arrive on Monday: drinks and food with Thomas and Jo Green, 73 Huntington Road, York, +44-(0)-1904-673675; directions to be supplied

Tuesday 6th September

10.00

Doctoral Consortium

12.30

lunch

1.00

Introduction to PPIG

Thomas Green

1.10

The York HCI Group

Alistair Edwards

University of York

New Tech, Chair: Maria Kutar

1.40

Class participation and shyness: affect and learning to program [short paper]

Jon Rimmer, Judith Good, Eric Harris and Madeline Balaam

University of Sussex, Newcastle University

2.00

Self-Reporting emotional experiences in computing lab sessions: an emotional regulation perspective

Judith Good, Jon Rimmer, Eric Harris and Madeline Balaam

University of Sussex, Newcastle University

2.30

The programming-like-analysis of a innovative media tool

Chris Roast, Elizabeth Uruchurtu and Andy Dearden

Sheffield Hallam University

3.00

Robot dance: edutainment or engaging learning

Chris Martin and Janet Hughes

University of Dundee

3.30

tea/coffee

Chair: Alistair Edwards

4.00

User configurable machine vision for mobiles

Alistair G. Stead

Cambridge University

4.30

Useful but tedious: An evaluation of mobile spreadsheets [short paper]

Derek Flood, Rachel Harrison and Ann Nosseir

Oxford Brookes University

Human and algorithmic complexity, Chair: Alistair Edwards

4.50

Understanding program complexity: an approach for study [short paper]

Christopher Douce and Szonya Durant

Open University and Royal Holloway College, University of London

5.10

Investigation of qualitative human oracle costs [short paper]

Sheeva Afshan and Phil McMinn

University of Sheffield

5.30

End of sessions. More guidance on evening activities. Visit 3Sixty, play boules, admire campus, relax until ...

7.00

(approx - can arrive earlier or later) meet at Brigantes, Micklegate, York for drinks and food; directions to be supplied

Wednesday 7th September

Language Formalities, Chair: Chris Roast

9.30

Open discussion: How would you design an notation or language for learners or practitioners?

Using formal logic to define the grammar for memory transfer language (MTL) on the mould of register transfer language (RTL) and high level languages *

Leonard J. Mselle

The University of Dodoma, Tanzania

10.00

Programming with the user in mind

Giora Alexandron, Michal Armoni and David Harel

Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

10.30

tea/coffee

11.00

Automatic algorithm recognition based on programming schemas

Ahmad Taherkhani

Aalto University, Finland

11.30

A case study on the usability of NXT-G programming language [short paper]

Khuong A. Nguyen

Cambridge University

HCI for the future

11.50

Visit to the Home Lab

Alistair Edwards, Lucy Buykx and Dave Swallow

University of York

1.00

lunch

2.00

Panel session: HCI problems are everywhere, Chair: Thomas Green

1. Measurement and visualisation of software timing properties

Nicholas Merriam and Andrew Howes

Gliwa GmbH, York; University of Manchester

2. Why PPIG matters beyond the P

Luke Church

Cambridge University

Learners and language design, Chair: Thomas Green

3.00

The influence of class structure on program comprehension

Ahmed Alardawi, Babak Khazaei and Jawed Siddiqi

Sheffield Hallam University

3.30

tea/coffee

4.00

An empirical study of the influence of OCL on early learners

Babak Khazei

Sheffield Hallam University

Motivation and Affect

4.30

What makes software engineers go that extra mile?

Rien Sach, Helen Sharp and Marian Petre

The Open University, UK

5.00

Study attitudes and behaviour of CS1 students – two realities *

Ana Paula Ambrosio and Scheila W. Martins

Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil, and University of Coimbra, Portugal

5.30

end of sessions

7.00

Gala dinner at Meltons Too, Fossgate; directions to be supplied

Thursday 8th September

Invited paper, Chair: Thomas Green

9.30

Non-formal techniques for requirements elicitation, modeling, and early assessment for services

Gerrit van der Veer and Dhaval Vyas

Emeritus Professor, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam

10.30

tea/coffee

Cognitive Considerations, Chair: Alistair Edwards

11.00

Evaluation of multimedia stream processing modeling language from the perspective of cognitive dimensions

Anna Bobkowska, Michal Nykiel and Jerzy Proficz

Gdansk University of Technology, Poland

11.30

The cognitive dimensions questionnaire: adapting for non-expert users [short paper]

Maria Kutar, John Muirhead and Gordon Fletcher

University of Salford; The Foundry Communications

11.50

Origins of poor code readability [short paper]*

Arun Saha

Fujitsu Network Communications, California

12.10

11.50

On the cognitive foundations of modularity

Miguel P. Monteiro

Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Invited paper, Chair: Gordon Fletcher
12.20

Methods and practicalities of qualitative research

Gordon Fletcher

University of Salford

1.20

Prize giving!

12.40
1.40

lunch

Invited paper

2.00

Methods and practicalities of qualitative research

Gordon Fletcher

University of Salford

Last session

3.00
2.20

The PPIG Meeting (summing-up, looking ahead, and … prizes)

3.30

tea/coffee. End of conference


Note

*    Due to circumstances beyond anyone's control, several planned speakers were unable to attend or to broadcast to us via Skype. There has, therefore, had to be some last-minute changes to the programme.

Technical Committee

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