Discovering the way programmers think about new programming environments

Dumas, Joseph S.; Parsons, Paige

doi:10.1145/203241.203253

Cited by 19 publications

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“…Research on tailoring has explored augmentation and exclusion operations on operating systems (North and Shneiderman, 2000), groupware (Wulf et al, 1999), and coordination systems (Cortes, 2000). In operating system visualization work by North and Shneiderman (2000) and Dumas and Parsons (1995), best views of operating system windows were identified that functionally support user defined modifications. Wulf et al (1999) explored groupware systems and described how a group in the ongoing use of a technology achieves coordinated views.…”

Section: Component Architecturesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Theory of Tailorable Technology Design

Germonprez

Hovorka

Collopy

2007

JAIS

106

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Tailorable technologies are a class of information systems designed with the intention that users modify and redesign the technology in the context of use. Tailorable technologies support user goals, intentions, metaphor, and use patterns in the selection and integration of technology functions in the creation of new and unique information systems. We propose a theory of tailorable technology design and identify principles necessary for the initial design. Following a Kantian style of inquiry, we identified four definitional characteristics of tailorable technology: a dual design perspective, user engagement, recognizable environments, and component architectures. From these characteristics, we propose nine design principles that will support the phenomenon of tailoring. Through a year-long case study, we refined and evidenced the principles, finding found that designers of tailorable technologies build environments in which users can both interact and engage with the technology, supporting the proposed design principles. The findings highlight a distinction between a reflective environment, where users recognize and imagine uses for the technology, and an active environment in which users tailor the technology in accordance with the imagined uses. This research contributes to the clarification of the role of theory in design science, expands the concept of "possibilities for action" to IS design, and proposes a design theory of a class of information systems for testing and refinement.

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Section: Component Architecturesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Theory of Tailorable Technology Design

Germonprez

Hovorka

Collopy

2007

JAIS

106

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“…The Apple Dylan programming environment [DP95] lets users choose which pairs of views to coordinate. Users browse hierarchical object-oriented programs by splitting and linking frames so that selecting a folder in one frame displays its contents in the other frame (e.g.…”

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“…In the Snap user interface, users coordinate a pair of visualizations by dragging the Snap button from one to the other (similar to [JBO94] and [DP95]). This displays the Snap Specification dialog (Figure 3).…”

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Snap-together visualization

North

Shneiderman

2000

Proceedings of the Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces

215

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Multiple coordinated visualizations enable users to rapidly explore complex information.However, users often need unforeseen combinations of coordinated visualizations that are appropriate for their data. Snap-Together Visualization enables data users to rapidly and dynamically mix and match visualizations and coordinations to construct custom exploration interfaces without programming. Snap's conceptual model is based on the relational database model. Users load relations into visualizations then coordinate them based on the relational joins between them. Users can create different types of coordinations such as: brushing, drill down, overview and detail view, and synchronized scrolling. Visualization developers can make their independent visualizations snap-able with a simple API.Evaluation of Snap revealed benefits, cognitive issues, and usability concerns. Data savvy users were very capable and thrilled to rapidly construct powerful coordinated visualizations. A snapped overview and detail-view coordination improved user performance by 30-80%, depending on task.

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“…The Apple Dylan programming environment [DP95] lets users split and link frames for drilling down through file structures (similar to Windows Explorer).…”

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Temporal, geographical and categorical aggregations viewed through coordinated displays

Fredrikson

North

Plaisant

et al. 1999

Proceedings of the 1999 Workshop on New Paradigms in Information Visualization and Manipulation in Conjunction With the Eighth

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Information visualization displays can hold a limited number of data points, typically a few thousand, before they get crowded. One way to solve this problem with larger data sets is to create aggregates. Aggregations were used together with the SnapTogether Visualization system to coordinate the visual displays of aggregates and their content. If two displays each hold one thousand items then rapid access and visibility can be maintained for a million points. This paper presents examples based on a database of highway incident data.

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Discovering the way programmers think about new programming environments

Cited by 19 publications

References 2 publications

A Theory of Tailorable Technology Design

A Theory of Tailorable Technology Design

Snap-together visualization

Temporal, geographical and categorical aggregations viewed through coordinated displays

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