Sun 18 Oct - Graduate Consortium Day
Location: Conference Room E

Registration

Graduate Consortium

Registration (in the Lobby Bar)

Mon 19 Oct - Main Technical Program Day 1
Location: Salon III

Registration

Opening

Presenters: Eileen Kraemer, Claudia Ermel and Scott Fleming

Paper Session: Crowdsourcing

Chair: Emerson Murphy-Hill

★ Honorable Mention ★ full paper: Tutorons: Generating Context-Relevant, On-Demand Explanations and Demonstrations of Online Code

Andrew Head, Codanda Appachu, Marti Hearst and Bjoern Hartmann

full paper: Codepourri: Creating Visual Coding Tutorials Using A Volunteer Crowd Of Learners

Mitchell Gordon and Philip Guo

short paper: Ask the Crowd: Scaffolding Coordination and Knowledge Sharing in Microtask Programming

Thomas D. Latoza, Arturo Di Lecce, Fabio Ricci, W. Ben Towne and Andre Van Der Hoek

Break

Paper Session: End-User Programming

Chair: Judith Good

full paper: Personality and Intrinsic Motivational Factors in End-User Programming

Saeed Aghaee, Alan Blackwell, Michal Kosinski and David Stillwell

full paper: Fostering the Adoption of Pervasive Displays in Public spaces using Tangible End-User Programming

Tommaso Turchi, Alessio Malizia and Alan Dix

short paper: Scientists Tell Stories about Seeking Help with Programming

Brian Frey and Carolyn Seaman

Lunch

Paper Session: Debugging and Program Understanding

Chair: Brad Myers

full paper: Facilitating Testing and Debugging of Markov Decision Processes with Interactive Visualization

Sean Mcgregor, Hailey Buckingham, Thomas Dietterich, Rachel Houtman, Claire Montgomery and Ronald Metoyer

full paper: Exploring Novice Programmer Example Use

Michelle Ichinco and Caitlin Kelleher

short paper: A Study of Interactive Code Annotation for Access Control Vulnerabilities

Tyler Thomas, Justin Smith, Emerson Murphy-Hill, Bei-Tseng Chu and Heather Lipford

Break

Paper Session: Software and Program Visualization

Chair: Stefan Sauer

full paper: Codechella: Multi-User Program Visualizations for Real-Time Tutoring and Collaborative Learning

Philip Guo, Jeffery White and Renan Zanelatto

short paper: VisualCues: Visually Explaining Source Code in Computer Science Education

Benjamin Biegel, Sebastian Baltes, Bob Prevos and Stephan Diehl

short paper: Semantic Zooming of Code Change History

Youngseok Yoon and Brad A. Myers

full paper: Toward a Domain-Specific Visual Discussion Forum for Learning Computer Programming: An Empirical Study of a Popular MOOC Forum

Joyce Zhu, Jeremy Warner, Mitchell Gordon, Jeffery White, Renan Zanelatto and Philip Guo

Break

Banquet

Tue 20 Oct - Main Technical Program Day 2
Location: Salon III

Registration

Keynote: Requirements for a Computing-Literate Society

Presenter: Mark Guzdial

Break

Paper Session: Domain-Specific Languages

Chair: Alan Blackwell

full paper: Supporting Exploratory Data Analysis with Live Programming

Danyel Fisher and Robert Deline

full paper: A Visual Language for Experience Sampling

Daniel Rough and Aaron Quigley

short paper: Recording, Processing, and Visualizing Changes in Diagrams

Sonja Maier and Mark Minas

short paper: Tempe: An Integrated Scripting Environment for Data Science

Robert Deline, Danyel Fisher, Badrish Chandramouli, Jonathan Goldstein, Michael Barnett, James Terwiliger and John Wernsing

Lunch

Paper Session: Design, Evaluation and Theory of Visual Languages

Chair: Mark Minas

★ Best Paper ★ full paper: An fMRI analysis of the efficacy of Euler diagrams in logical reasoning

Yuri Sato, Sayako Masuda, Yoshiaki Someya, Takeo Tsujii and Shigeru Watanabe

short paper: Detecting Problematic Lookup Functions in Spreadsheets

Felienne Hermans, Efthimia Aivaloglou and Bas Jansen

short paper: Interactive visual machine learning in spreadsheets

Advait Sarkar, Mateja Jamnik, Alan Blackwell and Martin Spott

★ Best Short Paper ★ short paper: Extending Scratch: New Pathways into Programming

Sayamindu Dasgupta, Shane Clements, Abdulrahman Y. Idlbi, Chris Willis-Ford and Mitchel Resnick

Break

Paper Session: Collaborative Systems

Chair: Thomas Latoza

short paper: Evaluating a MoLIC Extension for Collaborative Systems Design

Luiz Gustavo de Souza, Simone Diniz Junqueira Barbosa and Tayana Conte

short paper: Strengthening Collaborative Groups Through Art-Mediated Self-Expression

Mengyao Zhao, Yi Wang and David Redmiles

short paper: Adventures in Assessment: Assessing Collaboration in the Digital Environment

Benjamin Worrell and Catharine Brand

short paper: Understanding Triggers for Clarification Requests in Community-Based Software Help Forums

Nathaniel Hudson, Parmit Chilana, Xiaoyu Guo, Jason Day and Edmund Liu

Break

Reception and Showpieces Exhibition

Showpieces Chairs: Iman Avazpour and Eric Walkingshaw

showpiece: A Multi-view Framework for Generating Mobile Apps

Scott Barnett, Iman Avazpour, Rajesh Vasa, and John Grundy

showpiece: The Scientific Software Network Map: Showing scientists the impact and context of the software they write

Christopher Bogart, James Howison, and James Herbsleb

showpiece: Querying Linked Data with Block Programming

Paolo Bottoni and Miguel Ceriani

showpiece: Generating Readable Diagrammatic Proofs

Jim Burton and Sven Linker

showpiece: Visual and Textual Datasets Exploration

Andrew Fish, Donato Pirozzi, and Vittorio Scarano

showpiece: From Clicks to Code: Resources Women Use to Learn to Code in Apex

Louise Ann Lyon and Kieren Jameson

showpiece: MDPVIS Demo: Facilitating Testing and Debugging of Markov Decision Processes with Interactive Visualization

Sean McGregor, Hailey Buckingham, and Thomas G. Dietterich

showpiece: From Intuition to Measure: Styles of Use in Alice, Identifying patterns of use by observing participants in workshops with Alice

Leonel Morales Díaz, Laura S. Gaytán-Lugo, and Lissette Fleck

showpiece: A Wiki to Help Tool Designers who Want to Put Information Foraging Theory into Practice

Tahmid Nabi, Chris Scaffidi, David Piorkowski, Margaret Burnett, and Scott Fleming

★ Best Showpiece ★ showpiece: Solving Problems by Drawing Solution Paths

Steven L. Tanimoto

Wed 21 Oct - Main Technical Program Day 3
Location: Salon III

Registration

Keynote: Taking Stock of Blocks: Promises and Challenges of Blocks Programming Languages

Presenter: Franklyn Turbak

Break

Paper Session: Novel Representations and User Interfaces for Computation

Chair: Andrew Fish

full paper: A Syntax-Directed Keyboard Extension for Writing Source Code on Touch Screens

Islam Almusaly and Ronald Metoyer

full paper: Programs for People: What We Can Learn from Lab Protocols

Keeley Abbott, Christopher Bogart and Eric Walkingshaw

short paper: Adapting higher-order list operators for blocks programming

Soojin Kim and Franklyn Turbak

short paper: Hub Map: A new approach for visualizing traffic data sets with multi-attribute link data

Andrew Simmons, Iman Avazpour, Hai Vu and Rajesh Vasa

Lunch

Paper Session: Human Aspects and Psychology of Software Development and Language Design

Chair: Steven Tanimoto

★ Honorable Mention ★ full paper: Natural language and programming: designing effective environments for novices

Judith Good and Katherine Howland

full paper: A Principled Evaluation for a Principled Idea Garden

William Jernigan, Amber Horvath, Michael Lee, Margaret Burnett, Taylor Cuilty, Sandeep Kuttal, Anicia Peters, Irwin Kwan, Faezeh Bahmani and Andrew Ko

short paper: A Course-Based Usability Analysis of Cilk Plus and OpenMP

Michael Coblenz, Robert Seacord, Brad Myers, Joshua Sunshine and Jonathan Aldrich

Break

Paper Session: Computational Thinking and Computer Science Education

Chair: Felienne Hermans

full paper: Perceptions of Non-CS Majors in Intro Programming: The Rise of the Conversational Programmer

Parmit Chilana, Celena Alcock, Shruti Dembla, Anson Ho, Ada Hurst, Brett Armstrong and Philip Guo

full paper: Behavior-based clustering of visual code

Sheela Surisetty, Catherine Law and Christopher Scaffidi

full paper: Enabling Independent Learning of Programming Concepts through Programming Completion Puzzles

Kyle Harms, Noah Rowlett and Caitlin Kelleher

Closing

Presenters: Eileen Kraemer, Claudia Ermel and Scott Fleming

Thu 22 Oct - Workshop Day
Location: Salon IV

Registration

Workshop: Blocks and Beyond: Lessons and Directions for First Programming Environments