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CHI 2009

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Challenges Group 2

Challenges and Future Work

Jeff - recording and semantifying AJAX
Greg - AI heuristics are hard
Eytan Adar
 - retroactive data collection over long time periods
 - widgets and tools for understanding temporal querying
Margret Burnett
 - end user programmers are _roles_ that all sorts of people take on
Dave De Roure
 - perceived challenge: interoperability. but not a user challenge in practice.
 - user challenge: how do you give users confidence in the output of mashups?
Mary Beth
 - making computer programming meaningful to esp. young girls
 - strategy: construction-oriented
Joel Brandt - opportunistic programming: how to apply it? and people want feedback on every line of code
 - debugging resources: "steering", visual languages<backward&forward engineering; Burnett's visual language bibliography on her website; Thomas Moher (86/88) snapshotting C
 - version control (by output): Matt Jadud
Brian - resources for education of end-user programmers
Ken - just learning how to do research.



development for research programmers
 - write your scenario with the right stakeholder

strategy for adoption
 - Technology Adoption Model (TAM)
 - help people identify places where our tools are useful


how did people get into programming?
 - the joy of creation
 - but that's been stolen away from us: you can do all sorts of non-programming things to get that joy now
 - joy of creation, joy of teaching
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