VL/HCC 2007: Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, USA

Workshops

• Philip T. Cox, Andrew Fish, John Howse:
  Visual Languages and Logic. 3
  
• Andrew Fish, Alexander Knapp:
  Layout of (Software) Engineering Diagrams. 4
  

Tutorial

• Martin Erwig, Robin Abraham:
  Understanding and Building Spreadsheet Tools. 7
  

Keynote Speakers

• Colin Ware:
  Patterns and Words, Logic and Narrative: What can we expect of a visual language? 11
  
• George G. Robertson:
  Twelve Years of Visualization Research at Microsoft. 12
  

Empirical Studies (1)

• Joseph Lawrance, Rachel K. E. Bellamy, Margaret M. Burnett:
  Scents in Programs: Does Information Foraging Theory Apply to Program Maintenance? 15-22
  
• Anita Sarma, André van der Hoek, David F. Redmiles:
  A Comprehensive Evaluation of Workspace Awareness in Software Configuration Management Systems. 23-26
  
• Brian Dorn, Allison Elliott Tew, Mark Guzdial:
  Introductory Computing Construct Use in an End-User Programming Community. 27-32
  

Software Engineering Theory

• Gem Stapleton, Aidan Delaney:
  Towards Overcoming Deficiencies in Constraint Diagrams. 33-40
  
• Andrew Fish, Harald Störrle:
  Visual qualities of the Unified Modeling Language: Deficiencies and Improvements. 41-49
  
• Jeffrey Stylos, Brad A. Myers:
  Mapping the Space of API Design Decisions. 50-60
  

Teaching and Learning

• Pauli Byckling, Jorma Sajaniemi:
  A Study on Applying Roles of Variables in Introductory Programming. 61-68
  
• Susan Wiedenbeck, Xiaoning Sun, Thippaya Chintakovid:
  Antecedents to End Users' Success in Learning to Program in an Introductory Programming Course. 69-72
  
• Sandra B. Fan, Steven L. Tanimoto:
  Snapshots: Capturing Dynamics of Student Sketches. 73-76
  
• Tyler Robison, Steven L. Tanimoto:
  Controlling Transparency in an Online Learning Environment. 77-80
  
• Carmelo Ardito, Paolo Buono, Maria Francesca Costabile, Rosa Lanzilotti, Thomas Pederson:
  Mobile games to foster the learning of history at archaeological sites. 81-86
  

Domain-Specific or End-User Tools

• Philip T. Cox:
  Enhancing the Programmability of Spreadsheets with Logic Programming. 87-94
  
• Na Liu, John G. Hosking, John C. Grundy:
  MaramaTatau: Extending a Domain Specific Visual Language Meta Tool with a Declarative Constraint Mechanism. 95-103
  
• Herbert Prähofer, Dominik Hurnaus, Christian Wirth, Hanspeter Mössenböck:
  The Domain-Specific Language Monaco and its Visual Interactive Programming Environment. 104-110
  

End User Programming Evaluations

• Judith Segal:
  Some Problems of Professional End User Developers. 111-118
  
• Laura Beckwith, Derek Inman, Kyle Rector, Margaret M. Burnett:
  On to the Real World: Gender and Self-Efficacy in Excel. 119-126
  
• Neeraja Subrahmaniyan, Cory Kissinger, Kyle Rector, Derek Inman, Jared Kaplan, Laura Beckwith, Margaret M. Burnett:
  Explaining Debugging Strategies to End-User Programmers. 127-136
  

Visualization Approaches

• Lei Li, John G. Hosking, John C. Grundy:
  Visual Modelling of Complex Business Processes with Trees, Overlays and Distortion-based Displays. 137-144
  
• Rosario De Chiara, Andrew Fish:
  EulerView: a non-hierarchical visualization component. 145-152
  
• Shahar Maoz, Asaf Kleinbort, David Harel:
  Towards Trace Visualization and Exploration for Reactive Systems. 153-156
  
• Mauro Cherubini, Gina Venolia, Robert DeLine:
  Building an Ecologically valid, Large-scale Diagram to Help Developers Stay Oriented in Their Code. 157-162
  

Formal Methods for Domain Specific and End User Applications

• Paolo Bottoni, Juan de Lara, Esther Guerra:
  Action Patterns for the Incremental Specification of the Execution Semantics of Visual Languages. 163-170
  
• Sajid Sadi, Pattie Maes:
  Meta-Modelling, Visual Languages, Graph Transformation, Operational Semantics. 171-174
  
• Steven Bucuvalas, Clayton Lewis:
  Model-Driven Quality Assurance for End Users. 175-178
  
• Matteo Risoldi, Didier Buchs:
  A domain specific language and methodology for control systems GUI specification, verification and prototyping. 179-182
  
• Bonny Banerjee, B. Chandrasekaran:
  Representations and Strategies for Solving Spatial Problems with Diagrams. 183-188
  

Web Development Approaches

• Mary Beth Rosson, Hansa Sinha, Mithu Bhattacharya, Dejin Zhao:
  Design Planning in End-User Web Development. 189-196
  
• Christopher Scaffidi, Allen Cypher, Sebastian G. Elbaum, Andhy Koesnandar, Brad A. Myers:
  Scenario-Based Requirements for Web Macro Tools. 197-204
  
• Avraham Leff, James T. Rayfield:
  Relational Blocks: A Visual Dataflow Language for Relational Web-Applications. 205-208
  
• Sergio Di Martino, Filomena Ferrucci, Luca Paolino, Monica Sebillo, Giuliana Vitiello, Giuseppe Avagliano:
  A WebML-based Visual Language for the Development of Web GIS Applications. 209-214
  

Empirical Studies (2)

• Robin Abraham, Martin Erwig, Scott Andrew:
  A Type System Based on End-User Vocabulary. 215-222
  
• Jeanette Heidenberg, Andreas Nåls, Ivan Porres:
  Statechart Features and Pre-Release Defects in Software Maintenance. 223-230
  
• Carsten Schmidt, Bastian Cramer, Uwe Kastens:
  Usability Evaluation of a System for Implementation of Visual Languages. 231-238
  
• Marian Petre, Alan F. Blackwell:
  Children as Unwitting End-User Programmers. 239-242
  
• Gahgene Gweon, Lawrence D. Bergman, Vittorio Castelli, Rachel K. E. Bellamy:
  Evaluating an Automated Tool to Assist Evolutionary Document Generation. 243-248
  

Graduate Student Consortium

• John F. Pane, Mary Beth Rosson:
  Broadening the Audience for Computational Thinking: Graduate Student Consortium. 249
  
• Catharine Brand:
  Lowering Barriers to Interaction: Programming without Code. 250-251
  
• Thippaya Chintakovid:
  Factors Affecting End Users' Intrinsic Motivation to Use Software. 252-253
  
• Brian Dorn:
  Community-Based Scaffolding to Promote End-User Learning. 254-255
  
• Sandra B. Fan:
  Helping Teachers Automate Student Sketch Assessment. 256-257
  
• Valentina Grigoreanu:
  Finding Gender Differences in End-User Debugging: A Data Mining Approach. 258-259
  
• Norhayati Mohd Ali:
  A Generic Visual Critic Authoring Tool. 260-261
  
• Matthew R. Peters:
  Girls Teaching Girls: Free-Choice Collaborative Learning Through Social Computing. 262-263
  
• Erika Shehan Poole:
  Using Visual Tools to Close the Home Networking Digital Divide. 264-265
  
• Scott M. Robertson:
  Postsecondary Education & Autism: Developing an Online Community. 266-267
  
• Christopher Scaffidi:
  A Lightweight Model for End Users' Data: Progress and Future Work. 268-269
  
• Jeffrey Wong:
  Marmite: Towards End-User Programming for the Web. 270-271
  
• Sarita Yardi:
  From Functional to Fun: End User Development for Teenagers. 272-274