Wednesday 7 September: 11:00 - 12:30

Education and Cognition (joint with VL/HCC)

Session chair: Caitlin Kelleher

• Work in Progress: A nonvisual interface for a blocks language

  • Clayton Lewis and Varsha Koushik

• Work in Progress Report: Tracking the Novice Programmer

  • J. Thomas Allen and Temi Bidjerano

Wednesday 7 September: 13:30 - 15:30

PPIG Opening, Keynote and VL/HCC Conference Close (Joint with VL/HCC)

Session chair: Luke Church, Alan Blackwell, Beryl Plimmer and Gem Stapleton

• A fox not a hedgehog: What does PPIG know?

  • Luke Church and Mariana Marasoiu

• Keynote address - Beyond Text: The Future of IDEs

  • Michael Kölling

Wednesday 7 September: 16:00 - 17:30

Session “Hal”

Session chair: Mariana Marasoiu

• Location, Location, Location: Using Spatial Memory in an IDE to Assist Program Code Comprehension? (Work in Progress)

  • Craig Sutherland, Andrew Luxton-Reilly and Beryl Plimmer

• Children’s Storytelling and Coding: Literature Review and Future Potential

  • Rob Thompson and Steven Tanimoto

• Towards spreadsheet tools for end-user music programming

  • Advait Sarkar

• End user programming with personally meaningful objects

  • Andrew Smith

• Assessing Novices’ Program Comprehension based on Linked List Diagrams

  • Unaizah Obaidellah

Thursday 8 September: 09:00 - 10:30

Session “Charles”

Session chair: Maria Kutar

• Brain Type as a Programming Aptitude Predictor

  • Melanie Coles and Keith Phalp

• The Challenge of Learning to Program

  • Ugo Solitro, Margherita Pasini, Margherita Brondino and Daniela Raccanello

• Programmers’ experiences with working in the restricted-view mode as indications of parafoveal processing differences

  • Pavel Orlov, Roman Bednarik and Liudmila Orlova

• Investigating Domain Specific Visual Languages for Interactive Exhibitions

  • Andrew Stratton, Andy Dearden and Chris Bates

Thursday 8 September: 11:00 - 12:30

Session “Vint”

Session chair: Felienne Hermans

• Programming: Further factors that Influence Success

  • Keith Quille and Susan Bergin

• TALES: An E-learning Application to Teach Programming Concepts to the Early Years Foundation Stage

  • Melenie Schatynski and Sharon Wood

• Programming with simulated neurons: a first design pattern

  • Carl Evans, Ian Mitchell and Chris Huyck

• Comprehension and Composition of Flowcharts

  • Unaizah Obaidellah

Thursday 8 September: 13:30 - 15:30

Session “Edsger”

Session chair: Advait Sarkar

• Vernacular Languages for Mechatronic Making

  • Alan Blackwell

• Software and How it Lives On - Embedding Live Programs in the World Around Them

  • Antranig Basman, Luke Church, Clemens Klokmose and Colin Clark

• Panel discussion: Philosophy and PPIG

  • Luke Church, Alan Blackwell, Tony Hoare, Antranig Basman, David Chisnall

Thursday 8 September: 16:00 - 17:30

Session “Douglas”

Session chair: Clayton Lewis

• The role of Visualisation in the study of Computer Programming

  • Sarah Alhammad, Shirley Atkinson and Liz Stuart

• Enhancing Programming Lectures Using Interactive Web-Based Lecture Slides

  • Paul Albinson

• Preconceptions of novice learners about program execution

  • Sylvia Da Rosa

• Teaching Software Testing with a Mutation Testing Game

  • José Miguel Rojas and Gordon Fraser

• Blended Feedback II: Video feedback for individual students is the norm, on an undergraduate computer programming unit

  • Suzy Atfield-Cutts, Gail Ollis, Melanie Coles and Heather Mayes

Friday 9 September: 09:00 - 10:30

Session “Martin”

Session chair: Craig Anslow

• The End-User Programming Challenge of Data Wrangling

  • Maria Gorinova, Karl Prince, Sallyanne Meakins, Alain Vuylsteke, Matthew Jones and Alan Blackwell

• API Usability at Scale

  • Andrew Macvean, John Daughtry, Luke Church and Craig Citro

• A gaze-directed lens for touchless analytics

  • Abhishek Chander and Advait Sarkar

• A neurofeedback system to promote learner engagement

  • James Lockwood, Susan Bergin and Aidan Mooney

Friday 9 September: 11:00 - 12:30

Session “Adele”

Session chair: Luke Church

• Panel discussion: PPIG in the wild - what should we be studying?

  • Steven Clarke, Emma Söderberg, Meredydd Luff

• The Systems Approach to Change and the Agile Software Development Context

  • Lucas Gren

• Helping programmers get what they want

  • Gail Ollis

Friday 9 September: 13:30 - 15:30

Session “Tony”

Session chair: Alan Blackwell

• Programming languages: Thinking the unthinkable

  • Tomas Petricek

• Building Software is Not (Yet) a Craft​

  • Antranig Basman

• Whither with ‘with’? - new prospects for programming

  • Nicolas Pope, Elizabeth Hudnott, Jonathan Foss and Meurig Beynon

• A Formal and a Cognitive Model of Anaphors in Java

  • Sebastian Lohmeier

• Human language and its role in reference-point errors

  • Craig S. Miller

Friday 9 September: 16:00 - 17:30

Keynote and PPIG Close

Session chair: Luke Church

• Keynote address
  • Erik Ernst

Saturday 10 September: 09:30 - 12:30

PPIG Doctoral Consortium (located at Darwin College)

• Gesture–Visualise–Simulate: a framework to support the teaching of computational thinking in primary school classrooms

  • Anthony Trory

• How do user centred techniques contribute to the design process to create online content that is informative and accessible?

  • Jessica Muirhead

• Programmer Experience Design and the Spreadsheet Paradigm

  • Gary Miller

• Understanding Timing in Mixed-Initiative Interaction

  • Guo Yu

• Programmable graphics editors for data visualisation

  • Mariana Marasoiu