In the past few decades there has been considerable work on empowering end users to be
able to write their own programs, and as a result, users are indeed doing so. In fact, we …

Although numerous context-aware applications have been developed and there have been
technological advances for acquiring contextual information, it is still difficult to develop and …

However, use of Boolean operators is difficult for novice users because, for example,
common language usages of these terms can be the opposite of their usage in Boolean …

Programming may be more difficult than necessary because it requires solutions to be
expressed in ways that are not familiar or natural for beginners. To identify what is natural …

An essential aspect of programmers' work is the correctness of their code. This makes
current HCI techniques ill-suited to analyze and design the programming systems that …

A programming system is the user interface between the programmer and the computer.
Programming is a notoriously difficult activity, and some of this difficulty can be attributed to …

The effective and efficient use of information systems in health care organizations and
services are a vital element of the quality of life world wide. The modeling of time has …

iCAP is a system that assists users in prototy** context-aware applications. iCAP supports
sketching for creating input and output devices, and using these devices to design …

Industrial workplaces increasingly require end-users to create programs for embedded
systems, but little expert scrutiny has been devoted to studying this domain. As a result …

A programming system is the user interface between the programmer and the computer.
Programming is a notoriously difficult activity, and some of this difficulty can be attributed to …