Eliciting Sketched Expressions of Command Intentions in an IDE

Samuelsson, Sigurdur Gauti; Book, Matthias

dc.contributor	Háskóli Íslands
dc.contributor	University of Iceland
dc.contributor.author	orcid.org/0000-0003-2202-6060 Samuelsson, Sigurdur Gauti
dc.contributor.author	orcid.org/0000-0003-2472-5201 Book, Matthias
dc.date.accessioned	2021-01-29T14:28:21Z
dc.date.available	2021-01-29T14:28:21Z
dc.date.issued	2020-11-04
dc.identifier.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
dc.identifier.issn	2573-0142
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/2434
dc.description.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.
dc.description.sponsorship	Icelandic Research Fund (grant no. 196228)
dc.format.extent	200
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction;4
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subject	Sketching
dc.subject	User interfaces
dc.subject	Software development environments
dc.subject	Elicitation study
dc.subject	Hugbúnaðargerð
dc.subject	Hugbúnaðarverkfræði
dc.title	Eliciting Sketched Expressions of Command Intentions in an IDE
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dcterms.license	(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.
dc.description.version	Post-print
dc.identifier.journal	Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
dc.identifier.doi	10.1145/3427328
dc.relation.url	https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3427328
dc.contributor.department	Iðnaðarverkfræði-, vélaverkfræði- og tölvunarfræðideild (HÍ)
dc.contributor.department	Faculty of Industrial Eng., Mechanical Eng. and Computer Science (UI)
dc.contributor.school	Verkfræði- og náttúruvísindasvið (HÍ)
dc.contributor.school	School of Engineering and Natural Sciences (UI)