Visual Programming Languages and the Empirical Evidence For and Against

Whitley, Kirsten

doi:10.1006/jvlc.1996.0030

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“…Whitley provides a corresponding overview [74]. The arguments brought forth by Larkin and Simon emphasize the strength of visual representations [31], which is partially supported by Mayer [35] and Roth [61].…”

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Making sense of business process descriptions: An experimental comparison of graphical and textual notations

Ottensooser

Fekete

Reijers

et al. 2012

Journal of Systems and Software

110

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Making sense of business process descriptions: An experimental comparison of graphical and textual notations

Ottensooser

Fekete

Reijers

et al. 2012

Journal of Systems and Software

110

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“…Whitley [20] found that visual notations have potential for making information explicit and providing better organisation, which may help with program design, problem-solving and performance, even more so as the size of problems increases. However, there is still a lack of evidence that they are generally easier to learn, understand, use and share [2] and in addition it appears that the benefits of a notation are relative to a particular application area (task [8]).…”

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End-User Experiences of Visual and Textual Programming Environments for Arduino

Booth

Stumpf

2013

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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This is the unspecified version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. Permanent Abstract.Arduino is an open source electronics platform aimed at hobbyists, artists, and other people who want to make things but do not necessarily have a background in electronics or programming. We report the results of an exploratory empirical study that investigated the potential for a visual programming environment to provide benefits with respect to efficacy and user experience to end-user programmers of Arduino as an alternative to traditional text-based coding. We also investigated learning barriers that participants encountered in order to inform future programming environment design. Our study provides a first step in exploring end-user programming environments for open source electronics platforms.

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“…For instance, the interpretation of business process descriptions in BPMN (graphical notation) and in an alternative text notation (based on written use-cases) was investigated in [19]. More generally, [20] provides an overview of relative strengthes and weaknesses of textual versus flowchart notations. For this investigation, we have focused on the declarative modeling language Declare.…”

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Investigating Differences between Graphical and Textual Declarative Process Models

Haisjackl

Zugal

2014

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

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Abstract. Declarative approaches to business process modeling are regarded as well suited for highly volatile environments, as they enable a high degree of flexibility. However, problems in understanding declarative process models often impede their adoption. Particularly, a study revealed that aspects that are present in both imperative and declarative process modeling languages at a graphical level-while having different semantics-cause considerable troubles. In this work we investigate whether a notation that does not contain graphical lookalikes, i.e., a textual notation, can help to avoid this problem. Even though a textual representation does not suffer from lookalikes, in our empirical study it performed worse in terms of error rate, duration and mental effort, as the textual representation forces the reader to mentally merge the textual information. Likewise, subjects themselves expressed that the graphical representation is easier to understand.

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Visual Programming Languages and the Empirical Evidence For and Against

Cited by 113 publications

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Making sense of business process descriptions: An experimental comparison of graphical and textual notations

Making sense of business process descriptions: An experimental comparison of graphical and textual notations

End-User Experiences of Visual and Textual Programming Environments for Arduino

Investigating Differences between Graphical and Textual Declarative Process Models

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