Title: | Eliciting Sketched Expressions of Command Intentions in an IDE |
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Date: | 2020-11-04 |
Language: | English |
Scope: | 200 |
University/Institute: | Háskóli Íslands University of Iceland |
School: | Verkfræði- og náttúruvísindasvið (HÍ) School of Engineering and Natural Sciences (UI) |
Department: | Iðnaðarverkfræði-, vélaverkfræði- og tölvunarfræðideild (HÍ) Faculty of Industrial Eng., Mechanical Eng. and Computer Science (UI) |
Series: | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction;4 |
ISSN: | 2573-0142 |
DOI: | 10.1145/3427328 |
Subject: | Sketching; User interfaces; Software development environments; Elicitation study; Hugbúnaðargerð; Hugbúnaðarverkfræði |
URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/2434 |
Citation:Sigurdur Gauti Samuelsson and Matthias Book. 2020. Eliciting Sketched Expressions of Command Intentions in an IDE. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 4, ISS, Article 200 (November 2020), 25 pages. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3427328
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Abstract:Software engineers routinely use sketches (informal, ad-hoc drawings) to visualize and communicate complex ideas for colleagues or themselves. We hypothesize that sketching could also be used as a novel interaction modality in integrated software development environments (IDEs), allowing developers to express desired source code manipulations by sketching right on top of the IDE, rather than remembering keyboard shortcuts or using a mouse to navigate menus and dialogs. For an initial assessment of the viability of this idea, we conducted an elicitation study that prompted software developers to express a number of common IDE commands through sketches. For many of our task prompts, we observed considerable agreement in how developers would express the respective commands through sketches, suggesting that further research on a more formal sketch-based visual command language for IDEs would be worthwhile.
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Rights:(c) 2020 Copyright held by the owner/authors. This is the authors' version of the work. It is posted here for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive Version of Record was published in Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, November 2020, Article No.: 200, https://doi.org/10.1145/3427328.
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