Onward! 2015
Sun 25 - Fri 30 October 2015 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
co-located with SPLASH 2015
SPLASH 2015 (series) / Onward! 2015 (series) / Sheraton Station Square Hotel /

Room information: Grand Station 5

VenueSheraton Station Square Hotel
Room nameGrand Station 5
Floor1
Room Information

Program

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Mon 26 Oct

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08:30 - 10:00
Welcome and KeynotePLATEAU at Grand Station 5
Chair(s): Craig Anslow Middlesex University, London
08:30
30m
Talk
Organizers' Welcome
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09:00
60m
Talk
PLATEAU Keynote: Computational Thinking for All: Expanding the Boundaries of Computing for Nonprogrammers
PLATEAU
Mary Beth Rosson Pennsylvania State University
File Attached
10:30 - 12:00
ToolsPLATEAU at Grand Station 5
Chair(s): Thomas LaToza George Mason University
10:30
20m
Talk
Frequency Distribution of Error Messages
PLATEAU
David Pritchard University of Waterloo, Canada
File Attached
10:50
20m
Talk
An Evaluation of the DiaSuite Toolset by Professional Developers
PLATEAU
Milan Kabáč University of Bordeaux / Inria Bordeaux / LaBRI, Nic Volanschi Inria Bordeaux, Charles Consel University of Bordeaux
File Attached
11:10
20m
Talk
Aiding Programmers using Lightweight Integrated Code Visualization
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Per Ola Kristensson University of Cambridge, Chung Leung Lam University of Cambridge
File Attached
11:30
10m
Talk
Towards moldable development tools
PLATEAU
Andrei Chiş University of Bern, Switzerland, Tudor Gîrba tudorgirba.com, Switzerland, Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland
DOI Pre-print Media Attached File Attached
11:40
13m
Talk
Understanding the Effects of Code Presentation
PLATEAU
Jason Jacques University of Cambridge, Per Ola Kristensson University of Cambridge
File Attached
13:30 - 15:00
Programming Languages PapersPLATEAU at Grand Station 5
Chair(s): Joshua Sunshine Carnegie Mellon University
13:30
20m
Talk
A user study for comparing the programming efficiency of modifying executable multimodal interaction descriptions. A domain-specific language versus equivalent event-callback code
PLATEAU
Fredy Cuenca Hasselt University - tUL - iMinds, Jan Van den Bergh Hasselt University - tUL - iMinds, Kris Luyten Hasselt University - tUL - iMinds, Karin Coninx Hasselt University - tUL - iMinds
File Attached
13:50
20m
Talk
A Study on the Most Popular Questions About Concurrent Programming
PLATEAU
Gustavo Pinto UFPE, Weslley Torres Federal University of Pernambuco, Fernando Castor UFPE
File Attached
14:10
10m
Talk
Comparing Transitive to Intransitive Object Immutability
PLATEAU
Michael Coblenz Carnegie Mellon University, Joshua Sunshine Carnegie Mellon University, Brad A. Myers Carnegie Mellon University, Sam Weber Software Engineering Institute, Forrest Shull Software Engineering Institute
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14:20
13m
Talk
Is Functional Programming Better for Modularity?
PLATEAU
Ismael Figueroa Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile, Romain Robbes University of Chile
File Attached
14:33
13m
Talk
Operators and precedence in programming languages
PLATEAU
Najwani Razali Victoria University of Wellington, James Noble Victoria University of Wellington, Stuart Marshall Victoria University of Wellington
File Attached
14:46
13m
Talk
Some Usability Hypotheses for Verification
PLATEAU
David J. Pearce Victoria University of Wellington
File Attached
15:30 - 17:00
Group DiscussionPLATEAU at Grand Station 5
Chair(s): Craig Anslow Middlesex University, London, Thomas LaToza George Mason University, Joshua Sunshine Carnegie Mellon University
15:30
20m
Talk
On the Need to Define Community Agreements for Controlled Experiments with Human Subjects -- A Discussion Paper
PLATEAU
Stefan Hanenberg University of Duisburg-Essen, Andreas Stefik University of Nevada, Las Vegas
File Attached
15:50
70m
Talk
Group discussion
PLATEAU

Tue 27 Oct

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09:00 - 10:30
Session 1PROMOTO at Grand Station 5
Chair(s): Steven D. Fraser Innoxec – Innovation Executive Services, Alberto Sillitti Center for Applied Software Engineering
09:00
30m
Day opening
Introduction
PROMOTO

09:30
60m
Talk
PROMOTO Keynote: The BBC micro:bit
PROMOTO
Jonathan Protzenko Microsoft Research
11:00 - 12:00
Session 2PROMOTO at Grand Station 5
11:00
30m
Talk
Measuring the Usability and Capability of App Inventor to Create Mobile Applications
PROMOTO
Benjamin Xie Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Isra Shabir Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Hal Abelson MIT
11:30
30m
Talk
A Flow-Based Programming Framework for Mobile App development
PROMOTO
Jesse Zaman Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Lode Hoste , Wolfgang De Meuter Vrije Universiteit Brussel
13:30 - 15:30
Session 3PROMOTO at Grand Station 5
13:30
60m
Talk
Promoto Keynote: Towards More Natural Programming for Mobile and Touch
PROMOTO
Brad A. Myers Carnegie Mellon University
14:30
30m
Talk
Supporting ``What-If'' in Touch-Screen Web Applications
PROMOTO
Peter Simonyi Carleton University, Jeff Wilson Carleton University, Judith Brown Carleton University, Robert Biddle Carleton University
15:00
30m
Talk
Collaborative Annotations for Large Touchscreen Web Applications
PROMOTO
Miran Mirza Carleton University, Jeff Wilson Carleton University, Robert Biddle Carleton University
16:00 - 17:35
Session 4PROMOTO at Grand Station 5
16:00
30m
Demonstration
Demos
PROMOTO

16:30
30m
Other
Open Discussion
PROMOTO

17:00
35m
Day closing
Closing
PROMOTO

Mon 26 Oct

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Grand Station 5

PLATEAU

Welcome and Keynote

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Tools

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Programming Languages Papers

PLATEAU

Group Discussion

Tue 27 Oct

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Grand Station 5

PROMOTO

Session 1

PROMOTO

Session 2

PROMOTO

Session 3

PROMOTO

Session 4

Mon 26 Oct

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Grand Station 5
PLATEAU
Organizers' Welcome
08:30 - 09:00
PLATEAU
PLATEAU Keynote: Computational Thinking for All: Expanding the Boundari ...
09:00 - 10:00
PLATEAU
Frequency Distribution of Error Messages
10:30 - 10:50
PLATEAU
An Evaluation of the DiaSuite Toolset by Professional Developers
10:50 - 11:10
PLATEAU
Aiding Programmers using Lightweight Integrated Code Visualization
11:10 - 11:30
PLATEAU
Towards moldable development tools
11:30 - 11:40
PLATEAU
Understanding the Effects of Code Presentation
11:40 - 11:53
PLATEAU
A user study for comparing the programming efficiency of modifying exec ...
13:30 - 13:50
PLATEAU
A Study on the Most Popular Questions About Concurrent Programming
13:50 - 14:10
PLATEAU
Comparing Transitive to Intransitive Object Immutability
14:10 - 14:20
PLATEAU
Is Functional Programming Better for Modularity?
14:20 - 14:33
PLATEAU
Operators and precedence in programming languages
14:33 - 14:46
PLATEAU
Some Usability Hypotheses for Verification
14:46 - 14:59
PLATEAU
On the Need to Define Community Agreements for Controlled Experiments w ...
15:30 - 15:50
PLATEAU
Group discussion
15:50 - 17:00

Tue 27 Oct

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Grand Station 5
PROMOTO
Introduction
09:00 - 09:30
PROMOTO
PROMOTO Keynote: The BBC micro:bit
09:30 - 10:30
PROMOTO
Measuring the Usability and Capability of App Inventor to Create Mobile ...
11:00 - 11:30
PROMOTO
A Flow-Based Programming Framework for Mobile App development
11:30 - 12:00
PROMOTO
Promoto Keynote: Towards More Natural Programming for Mobile and Touch
13:30 - 14:30
PROMOTO
Supporting ``What-If'' in Touch-Screen Web Applications
14:30 - 15:00
PROMOTO
Collaborative Annotations for Large Touchscreen Web Applications
15:00 - 15:30
PROMOTO
Demos
16:00 - 16:30
PROMOTO
Open Discussion
16:30 - 17:00
PROMOTO
Closing
17:00 - 17:35