PPIG 2018 - 29th Annual Workshop 5 - 7 Sep 2018, The Art Workers' Guild, London, UK

Wednesday, 5 September

12:00 - 14:00 Registration open
14:00 - 14:05 PPIG Open
Welcome to the Art Workers’ Guild
Prue Cooper
14:05 - 14:50 KEYNOTE
Charlie Gere
14:50 - 15:15 Coffee Break
15:15 - 15:20 Recital of Postcards
15:20 - 16:30 Tangible Workshop
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee Break
17:00 - 18:00 SESSION 1
INVITED TALK: Beach-combing lumps of geometry from the sea shore of Mathematics
Fred Baier
A Craft Practice of Programming Language Research
Alan Blackwell
19:00 PPIG Dinner at The Lady Ottoline
Address: 11A Northington St, London WC1N 2JF

Thursday, 6 September

10:00 - 11:00 SESSION 2
INVITED TALK: The Multiple Psychologies of Programming in the Service of Learning Science and Mathematics
Andrea diSessa
Recitation of poems
Nicholas Cooper
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:00 SESSION 3
The Lish: a data model to support analysis by end user programmers
Alan Hall
Modeling cognitive processes underlying computer programming
Catalin Florian Perticas & Bipin Indurkhya
Direct Programming
Jonathan Edwards
How do people learn to use spreadsheets? (Work in progress)
Advait Sarkar & Andrew D. Gordon
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:30 SESSION 4
Recital of Postcards
How I Use Computers
Simon Hurst
Choosers: The design and evaluation of a visual algorithmic music composition language for non-programmers
Matt Bellingham, Simon Holland & Paul Mulholland
INVITED TALK & DEMO: Valaa Open System (ValOS)
Ville Ilkkala
Hands on with Boxer
Andrea diSessa
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:00 SESSION 5
Recital of Postcards
All recordable human discourse is trapped in aleph-zero
Oli Sharpe
What Lies in the Path of the Revolution
Antranig Basman & Philip Tchernavskij
17:00 - 18:00 Open Panel Discussion
19:00 Musical Soirée (bring your instrument!)

Friday, 7 September

10:00 - 11:00 SESSION 6
The Logos in Computation and Everyday Life
James Ramsay
A growing tip or a sprawling vine: how software grows
Luke Church & Mariana Marasoiu
Wide, long, or nested data? Reconciling the machine and human viewpoints
Alan Hall, Michel Wermelinger, Tony Hirst & Santi Phithakkitnukoon
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:00 SESSION 7
Recital of Postcards
Investigating multimodal affect sensing in an Affective Tutoring System using unobtrusive sensors
Hua Leong Fwa & Lindsay Marshall
Conjuring Code
Will Houstoun & Marc Kerstein
Explicit Direct Instruction
Felienne Hermans & Marileen Smit
Phenotropic Programming?
Clayton Lewis
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:30 SESSION 8
Recital of Postcards
Investigating Conversational Programming for End-Users in Smart Environments through Wizard of Oz Interactions
Kate Howland & James Jackson
Crafting Design Documents in First-Year CS Courses
Shannon Ernst & Jennifer Parham-Mocello
On Continuing Creativity
Colin Clark
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:45 KEYNOTE: What if software were different?
Clemens Klokmose
16:45 - 17:15 PPIG Close