Awards

Best Full Paper

Winner:

An fMRI analysis of the efficacy of Euler diagrams in logical reasoning

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

Honorable Mentions:

Natural language and programming: designing effective environments for novices

Judith Good and Katherine Howland

Tutorons: Generating Context-Relevant, On-Demand Explanations and Demonstrations of Online Code

Andrew Head, Codanda Appachu, Marti Hearst and Bjoern Hartmann

Best Short Paper

Winner:

Extending Scratch: New Pathways into Programming

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

Best Showpiece

Winner:

Solving Problems by Drawing Solution Path

Steven L. Tanimoto

Outstanding Reviewer

Winner:

Alan Blackwell

Most Influential Paper from Roughly 10 Years Ago

Winner:

Gender: An Important Factor in End-User Programming Environments?

Laura Beckwith and Margaret Burnett (VL/HCC 2004)

Most Influential Paper from Roughly 20 Years Ago

Winner:

Empirically Evaluating the Use of Animations to Teach Algorithms

Andrea W. Lawrence, Albert M. Badre, and John T. Stasko (VL 1994)