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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Usability of Programming Languages

Margaret BurnettFranklyn TurbakAntti-juhani KaijanahoBrad A. MyersAndreas StefikPhilip WadlerStefan Hanenberg

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Pluralistic walkthroughCognitive walkthroughComputer scienceComputer programmingprogramming language usabilityUsability inspection02 engineering and technologycomputer.software_genreUsability labWorld Wide WebHuman–computer interaction020204 information systemsHeuristic evaluationUsability engineeringenduser software engineering (EUSE)0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineeringpsychology of programmingFifth-generation programming languageComponent-based usability testingWeb usabilityAgile usability engineeringbusiness.industryProgramming languagePsychology of programming020207 software engineeringUsabilitySecond-generation programming languageempirical studies of programmersAPI usabilityProgramming paradigmFourth-generation programming languagebusinesscomputerProgramming language theory

description

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. nonPeerReviewed

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2016-05-07Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
https://doi.org/10.1145/2851581.2886434