Evaluation and Usability of Programming Languages and ToolsPLATEAU
The Fifth Workshop on Evaluation and Usability of Programming Languages and Tools (PLATEAU) at SPLASH 2014.
Theme
Programming languages exist to enable programmers to develop software effectively. But how efficiently programmers can write software depends on the usability of the languages and tools that they develop with. The aim of this workshop is to discuss methods, metrics and techniques for evaluating the usability of languages and language tools. The supposed benefits of such languages and tools cover a large space, including making programs easier to read, write, and maintain; allowing programmers to write more flexible and powerful programs; and restricting programs to make them more safe and secure.
PLATEAU gathers the intersection of researchers in the programming language, programming tool, and human-computer interaction communities to share their research and discuss the future of evaluation and usability of programming languages and tools.
Some particular areas of interest are:
- empirical studies of programming languages
- methodologies and philosophies behind language and tool evaluation
- software design metrics and their relations to the underlying language
- user studies of language features and software engineering tools
- visual techniques for understanding programming languages
- critical comparisons of programming paradigms
- tools to support evaluating programming languages
- psychology of programming
Accepted papers now available
Download each paper by clicking on the event title in the program, pushing the “view event page” button, and clicking the file attachment link. We strongly encourage you to read the papers in advance of the workshop.
Links
Tue 21 OctDisplayed time zone: Tijuana, Baja California change
08:30 - 10:00 | Invited Speaker: Josh BlochPLATEAU at Salon D Chair(s): Craig Anslow University of Calgary, Thomas LaToza University of California, Irvine, Joshua Sunshine Carnegie Mellon University | ||
08:30 30mOther | Welcome and Introductions PLATEAU | ||
09:00 60mTalk | Invited Speaker: A Brief, Opinionated History of the API PLATEAU | ||
10:30 - 12:00 | |||
10:30 22mTalk | Asking and Answering Questions during a Programming Change Task in Pharo Language PLATEAU File Attached | ||
10:52 22mTalk | EUKLAS: Supporting Copy-and-Paste Strategies for Integrating Example Code PLATEAU Christian Doerner Senacor Technologies AG, Andrew Faulring Carnegie Mellon University , Brad A. Myers Carnegie Mellon University File Attached | ||
11:15 22mTalk | Empirical Comparison of Visual to Hybrid Formula Manipulation in Educational Programming Languages for Teenagers PLATEAU Roxane Koitz-Hristov Graz University of Technology, Wolfgang Slany Institute of Software Technology, Graz University of Technology File Attached | ||
11:37 22mTalk | Usability and Suitability Survey of Features in Visual IDEs for Non-Programmers PLATEAU Jean Michel Rouly George Mason University, Jonathan Orbeck University of Alabama, Eugene Syriani University of Montreal File Attached | ||
13:30 - 15:00 | |||
13:30 25mTalk | How Developers Use Data Race Detection Tools PLATEAU File Attached | ||
13:55 15mTalk | Research.js: Evaluating Your Research on the Web PLATEAU Joel Galenson University of California, Berkeley and Qualcomm Research, Cindy Rubio-González University of California, Berkeley, Sarah E. Chasins University of California, Berkeley, Liang Gong University of California, Berkeley File Attached | ||
14:10 15mTalk | Supporting Social Interactions and Awareness in Educational Programming Environments PLATEAU File Attached | ||
14:25 35mTalk | Invited Talk: How Do API Documentation and Static Typing Affect API Usability? PLATEAU | ||
15:30 - 17:00 | |||
15:30 22mTalk | Wyvern: Impacting Software Security via Programming Language Design PLATEAU Darya Melicher Carnegie Mellon University, Alex Potanin Victoria University of Wellington, Jonathan Aldrich Carnegie Mellon University File Attached | ||
15:52 22mTalk | Considering Productivity Effects of Explicit Type Declarations PLATEAU Michael Coblenz Carnegie Mellon University, Jonathan Aldrich Carnegie Mellon University, Brad A. Myers Carnegie Mellon University, Joshua Sunshine Carnegie Mellon University File Attached | ||
16:15 22mTalk | Usability Hypotheses in the Design of Plaid PLATEAU File Attached | ||
16:37 22mOther | Group Activity PLATEAU | ||
Accepted Papers
Call for Submissions
Download PLATEAU Call For Submissions (515KB PDF Document)
Submission deadline extended! Submissions due Wed, August 13.
Submission Details
PLATEAU papers should be submitted via EasyChair. PLATEAU encourages submissions of three types of papers:
Research and position papers: We encourage papers that describe work-in-progress or recently completed work based on the themes and goals of the workshop or related topics, report on experiences gained, question accepted wisdom, raise challenging open problems, or propose speculative new approaches. We will accept two types of papers: research papers up to 8 pages in length; and position papers up to 2 pages in length.
Hypotheses papers: Hypotheses papers explicitly identify beliefs of the research community or software industry about how a programming language, programming language feature, or programming language tool affects programming practice. Hypotheses can be collected from mailing lists, blog posts, paper introductions, developer forums, or interviews. Papers should clearly document the source(s) of each hypothesis and discuss the importance, use, and relevance of the hypotheses on research or practice. Papers may also, but are not required to, review evidence for or against the hypotheses identified. Hypotheses papers can be up to 4 pages in length.
Page Limits: The page limits listed above are recommendations, not hard limits. Please be considerate of reviewers’ time and exceed the limits with care.
Format: Submissions should use the SIGPLAN Proceedings Format, 10 point font. Note that by default the SIGPLAN Proceedings Format produces papers in 9 point font. If you are formatting your paper using LaTeX, you will need to set the 10pt option in the \documentclass command. If you are formatting your paper using Word, you may wish to use the provided Word template that supports this font size. Please include page numbers in your submission. Setting the preprint option in the LaTeX \documentclass command generates page numbers. Please also ensure that your submission is legible when printed on a black and white printer. In particular, please check that colors remain distinct and font sizes are legible.
All types of papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library at the authors’ discretion.
Proceedings
Here is a download of all the papers as part of the PLATEAU Proceedings.
- PLATEAU 2014 Proceedings (ZIP File 2.8MB)
| Tue 21 Oct 2014 PLATEAU Workshop |
| Fri 29 Aug 2014 Author Notification |
| Wed 13 Aug 2014 Submissions Due |
Jennifer Baldwin
University of Victoria
Andrew Begel
Microsoft Research
Andrew Black
Portland State University
United States
Alan Blackwell
University of Cambridge
United Kingdom
Jeff Carver
University of Alabama
Sebastian Erdweg
TU Darmstadt
Thomas Fritz
University of Zurich
Switzerland
Stefan Hanenberg
University of Duisburg-Essen
Germany
Matthias Hauswirth
University of Lugano
Ciera Jaspan
Google
United States
Leo Meyerovich
Graphistry
Emerson Murphy-Hill
North Carolina State University
United States
Gail Murphy
University of British Columbia
James Noble
Victoria University of Wellington
Chris Parnin
Georgia Tech
United States
Chris Scaffidi
Oregon State University
United States
Janet Siegmund
University of Passau
Germany
Andreas Stefik
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
United States
Éric Tanter
University of Chile
Chile